IBM TechU Ansible for IT Automation and DevOps on Power Systems – tu00001gwpl
Course #: tu00001gwpl
Duration: 1 Days
This learning theme covers Ansible Automation on IBM Power Systems. You’ll discover the fundamental Ansible design concepts and learn how to configure and deploy Ansible in an AIX and IBM i Enterprise environment. Further you’ll learn how to integrate with tools such as PowerVC.
Upon completion of the final assessment, you’ll receive the IBM TechU Ansible for IT Automation and DevOps on Power Systems Digital Badge.
This learning theme covers a variety of topics around Ansible Automation on IBM Power Systems:
- Introducing automation using Ansible Playbooks
- Automating system admin and DevOps tasks
- Customizing automation using Ansible Playbooks
- Scaling automation using Ansible Playbooks
- IT Automation for AIX and VIOS using Ansible
- DevOps demo: Ansible basics on IBM Power Systems
- Ansible Automation for IBM I
- Testing Ansible roles with Molecule
- Deploying Oracle with Ansible and PowerVC
Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Understand how to configure and deploy Ansible Engine in an enterprise environment. Learn how to run ad hoc Ansible commands, and to create Ansible Playbooks to automate both simple and complex tasks.
- Understand how to simplify the management of Ansible Playbooks by creating and configuring variables, secrets and facts. Learn to manage task controls, handlers and task errors in Ansible Playbooks. Learn to use Ansible Playbooks to deploy files to managed hosts, and customize file instances per host using Jinja2 templates.
- Understand how to write Ansible Playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects. Learn to simplify Ansible Playbooks by creating roles and reusable Ansible code. Observe examples of automating common Linux administration tasks using Ansible.
- Understand how to integrate Ansible with IBM PowerVC to make it easier for administrators to perform DevOps-related tasks.
- Understand how to manage and automate an IBM i environment.
- Understand how to test Ansible roles using Molecule and how to expand Molecule to fit most environments.
- Understand how to deploy Oracle on AIX with Ansible and PowerVC
Audience
Power Systems and IBM i Systems clients and Business Partners looking to automate systems administration tasks. Systems Programmers, Administrators, Architects, Systems Management and other IT roles.
Topics
- Introducing automation using Ansible Playbooks:
- IT Automation for AIX and VIOS using Ansible
- DevOps demo: Ansible basics on IBM Power Systems
- Ansible Automation for IBM I
- Testing Ansible roles with Molecule
- Deploying Oracle with Ansible and PowerVC