IT operation tasks are typically quite versatile and thus often carried out manually. Typical system administrators' tasks include creating virtual machines, configuring operation system or services, create and manage accounts for within manifold service landscapes and many more. All these tasks are carried out repeatedly and keep administrators from actually enhancing the IT environment they operate. In this course you'll discover the power and flexibility of IT automation based on the free tool "Ansible".
Ansible enables you to describe deployment processes quite easily and even more important it allows to describe the process so it becomes reusable for different services. Once described, a task modeled in Ansible it can be repeated within a fraction of time and less error-prone to individual mistakes.
The course will discuss the benefits and pitfalls and how Ansible can be used to simplify the daily work within IT operations. You'll learn about opportunities and limitations of IT automation and a lot of practical input exemplarily implemented by means of Ansible.
We'll start with the basic concepts of Ansible and quickly implement typical daily tasks such as creating user accounts or updating service configuration and end with system orchestration and management within and heterogeneous, complex infrastructures.
During the journey you will learn how to easily:
Rüdiger is a relatively new member of the ERNW family. His knowledge and dedication in debugging and configuration tasks contributes mainly to the UNIX/Linux world. He pushes further development within the ERNW IT landscape and cross-domain integration of old and new IT services.
Kai is one of the longest-serving systems engineers at ERNW and driving force for the whole topic Automation. Over time he has put his heart into automation and orchestration for the ERNW IT environment and has thus helped to bring it to the next level. He is an experienced administrator with a strong knowledge of both past and recent developments within the UNIX/Linux domain, as well as in Microsoft and Cisco environments.