Learn how to automate your mission critical Windows systems with Red Hat Ansible.

Join Ansible technical experts for a virtual hands-on workshop where you will acquire enough new knowledge and experience to immediately start going faster and getting more done in your own organization's Windows environments using Ansible - a simple yet powerful IT automation engine for application deployment, configuration management, and orchestration that you can learn quickly.

You will be equipped with the skills to take back to your organisation and implement right away.

About this workshop

This beginner level workshop details utilizing Windows modules with Ansible Playbooks, authoring playbooks using Visual Studio Code, commit and push playbooks to a git repository and then later automating them with Ansible automation controller.

What you'll learn

• What is Ansible and The Ansible Way
• How Ansible Works and its Key Components
• Hands-on: Intro and configuration of Ansible Automation Controller (AAP)
• Hands-on: Ad-hoc commands in AAP
• Hands-on: Writing Your First playbook
• Hands-on: AAP projects
• Hands-on: Advanced playbooks
• Hands-on: Ansible Roles - making your playbooks reusable
• BONUS - Windows package management - Chocolatey (optional)

Who is this workshop best for?

Best suited for system administrators and operators who manage and configure enterprise Windows systems as you will learn the basics of Ansible Automation including Ansible automation controller to automate Windows environments.

Who should attend?

Windows administrators, cloud administrators, DevOps engineers, security professionals and anyone interested in windows automation.

Pre-requisites:

• Attendees should have a working knowledge of using SSH and command line shell (BASH) as well as a conceptual understanding of linux system administration (how to use simple commands like cd, ls, mv, mkdir, etc).
• Attendees should have a working knowledge of at least one Linux text editor (nano, pico, vi/vim, zile, emacs) with which to write Ansible playbooks.
• Attendees must use their own laptop with admin rights and the ability to connect to a lab environment hosted in a public cloud.