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Gain insights into Ansible for software provisioning, configuration management, and deployment. Learn about setting up environments, connecting to cloud providers, and automating processes with practical scenarios.

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AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID

AZURE_CLIENT_ID

AZURE_SECRET

AZURE_TENANT

AWS_Linux_EC2_Instance_DNS_Name

AWS_Windows_EC2_Instance_DNS_Name

Azure_Linux_VM_Instance_DNS_Name

Azure_Windows_VM_Instance_DNS_Name

AWS_Linux_EC2_Instance_IP

AWS_Windows_EC2_Instance_IP

Azure_Linux_VM_Instance_IP

Azure_Windows_VM_Instance_IP

Ansible_Password_Linux

Ansible_Password_Windows

Ansible_Vault_Password

Github_Clone_URL

AWS-Windows-EC2-Instance

AWS-Linux-EC2-Instance

AWS-Create_VPC

Azure-Create-Resource-Group 

AWS-Delete-Ansible-Environment

Azure-Create-Windows-VM

Azure-Create-Linux-VM

Azure-Delete-Ansible-Environment

Connect to Windows and Linux VMs

Run a playbook -  Ping Docker Container

Configure a web server

Configure a web server - Try it Now

Configure the DNS Names

Configure the DNS Names and IP Address

Reusable Configuration

GitHub Actions

Deploy Ansible Code

Deploy Workflow

Deploy - Exit Failure Code

Configure the DNS Names - Chocolatey

Initialize GIT

Connect to Windows and Linux VMs-Updated

Configure a web server-Updated

Configure the DNS Names-Updated

Configure the DNS Names and IP Address-Updated

Deploy Ansible Code-Updated

Deploy - Exit Failure Code-Updated

Deploy Workflow-Updated

Build - Dockerfile

Build - Dockerfile-Ansible

Ansible is one of the leading tools for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. In this course, you will learn the ins and outs of Ansible with the goal of managing and automating your infrastructure and code’s deployment.

You will learn how to set up a docker environment, connect with cloud providers like AWS and Azure, manage infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Ansible, and lastly how to automate configuration and state management processes. Throughout each section, you will dive into the fundamentals of Ansible through practical and real-world scenarios.

By the end, you will have a great new skill that will open a lot of doors for you like cloud computing and DevOps. This will definitely be a good tool to put on your resume and will help you further your career.

Ansible: Zero to Production Ready

The _Ansible_ development environment in `AWS` will comprise the following:
- A Virtual Private Cloud(VPC)
- A subnet
- An internet gateway
- A route for public traffic into the VPC
- Windows EC2 instance with `Windows Server 2019` _Amazon Machine Image(AMI)_
- Linux EC2 instance with `Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8` _Amazon Machine Image(AMI)_

> #### **_Free Tier_**
> Both the `AMIs` used are within the free tier.

# Ansible Modules
The following `Ansible Modules` can be used to deploy the resources on `AWS` using __Ansible playbooks__:
|  **AWS Resource**   |  **Ansible Module**   | 
| --- | --- |
|   VPC |  `ec2_vpc_net` |
|   Subnet |  `ec2_vpc_subnet`   |
|   Internet Gateway |  `ec2_vpc_igw`  |
|   Route Table |  `ec2_vpc_route_table` |
|   Security Group |  `ec2_group`   |
|   Key Pair |  `ec2_key`  |
|   EC2 Instance |  `ec2` |
|   Elastic IP Address |  `ec2_eip`   |


_Ansible_ codifies your infrastructure in __YAML__ files called __Ansible playbooks__. You will use pre-written Ansible playbooks to deploy the Ansible development environment to AWS. 
> <span>_**Resource Dependency**_ </span><br>
> Several of the `AWS` resources depend on other resources. These _dependencies_ mean that you have to run the playbooks in the right order.

Let's start exploring the **playbooks** we will cover in this lesson one by one:
# Create a VPC
Before you can deploy an **Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)** instance, you have to provision a `VPC`. You will provision a `VPC` with a _subnet_, an _internet gateway_, and a _route table entry_ for public traffic. Review the `aws_create_vpc.yaml` playbook below:

Deploy an Ansible development environment to AWS.

Deploy to AWS

AWS Resource	Ansible Module
VPC	`ec2_vpc_net`
Subnet	`ec2_vpc_subnet`
Internet Gateway	`ec2_vpc_igw`
Route Table	`ec2_vpc_route_table`
Security Group	`ec2_group`
Key Pair	`ec2_key`
EC2 Instance	`ec2`
Elastic IP Address	`ec2_eip`

Getting Started

Ansible Development with Containers

Connect to the Cloud

Starting at the Source

Getting Started with Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

Deploy an Ansible Development Environment

Putting the Ansible Environment to Work

Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

Build Reusable Configurations

Dynamic Inventories for Scaling

Build a CI \ CD pipeline for Ansible with Github Actions

Appendix

Deploy to AWS

Free Tier

Ansible Modules