In-Person Event

Ansible Automation Technical Workshop

January 9, 2020Kansas City, MissouriSAIC Kansas City Office

What is it used for?

Ansible delivers simple, powerful, agentless IT automation that ends repetitive tasks and frees up teams for more strategic work. Ansible can be used to automate configuraton management, provisioning, app deployment, continuous delivery, orchestration, security and audit compliance/remediation.  

What can it be used on? 

Infrastructure (Linux, Windows, VMWare..), Networking Devices (Cisco, Palo Alto, F5...), Containers (OpenShift, Docker, Operators...), Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack), and DevOps Tools (Splunk, JBoss, ServiceNow, other middleware..)

Why?

FRTIB has recently invested in a small amount of Ansible Tower. Our goal for the workshop is to sperad adoption of this powerful tool through enablement to help support a successful automation journey.  

Agenda

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
 Registration & Introductions
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
​MORNING SESSIONS
  • What is Ansible? And The Ansible Way
  • How Ansible Works and its Key Components, with Lab
  • Labs: Creating and Running Playbooks
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
​AFTERNOON SESSIONS
  • What is Ansible Tower? with Lab: Installing Ansible Tower
  • Labs: Running Playbooks from Ansible Tower
Introduction & settle-in  
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. -- MORNING SESSIONS
  • Introduction to Ansible
  • Running Ad-hoc Commands
  • Writing Your First Playbook
  • Using Variables
  • Conditionals, Handlers and Loops
  • Building Templates
  • Roles
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. -- LUNCH  
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. -- AFTERNOON SESSIONS
  • Introduction to Tower
  • Inventories
  • Credentials
  • Ad-Hoc commands
  • Projects
  • Job Templates
  • Using the Survey Feature
  • Role Based Access Control
  • Workflows

Location
SAIC Kansas City Office
6601 Winchester Ave., Suite 100
Kansas City, Missouri  34133


Date: Thursday, January 9, 2020

Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

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Who should attend?

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