Ansible Automation Workshop

What is an Ansible Workshop?

What is Ansible, how does it work in the most basic form on the command line - and where does Ansible Tower fit? This workshop teaches the basic bits you need to start using Ansible Automation on your own. In the second half, we will focus on Ansible Tower and show where it fits in - and when and why you absolutely need it when you automate more and more.

The workshop will cover the following elements: 

• What is Ansible and the Ansible way
• Installing Ansible
• How Ansible works and its key components
• Ad-hoc commands
• Writing playbooks and roles 

• What is Ansible Tower
• How Ansible Tower works
• How to set up and run schedules/jobs
• Role based access control
• Tower as code and the Ansible Tower modules
• Explore the Ansible Tower API
• Learn how to call the Ansible Tower API
• Consume the Ansible Tower API from Gitlab CI pipelines