DO374 - Ansible Automation: Advanced Development Training Course

Sophisticated Ansible Playbook Development

• Leveraging variables, loops, conditionals, and handlers
• Implementing blocks, error handling, and tags
• Architecting complex playbooks

Jinja2 and Templating Strategies

• Advanced application of filters and lookups
• Generating dynamic templates
• Best practices for templating

Custom Modules and Plugins

• Authoring custom modules in Python
• Utilizing filters, callbacks, and connection plugins
• Strategies for debugging and logging

Collections and Roles

• Structuring content via roles
• Packaging and releasing Ansible Collections
• Managing versioning and dependencies

API Integration and External Services

• Interacting with REST APIs using the URI module
• Collaborating with cloud providers and external tools
• Integrating secrets management

Testing and Validation

• Employing ansible-lint, Molecule, and CI/CD pipelines
• Guaranteeing idempotency and reproducibility
• Performing static and dynamic analysis on Ansible code

Content Lifecycle and Version Control

• Managing code through Git and GitOps
• Tracking changes and maintaining documentation
• Establishing CI/CD workflows for Ansible content

Recap and Future Directions