Gain insights into installing and using Ansible, delve into playbooks and inventory management, and learn about troubleshooting to efficiently automate IT tasks and enhance your IT career.

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In an era of IT environments, automation is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Ansible, an open-source IT automation tool, has become a go-to solution for streamlining IT tasks. This comprehensive course aims to equip you with both fundamental and advanced Ansible knowledge.

You'll start by installing Ansible, understanding its architecture, and diving into inventory management and playbook creation. Next, you'll explore variables, conditional statements, loops, handlers, roles, and collections. After that, the course dives into Ansible for Linux-specific tasks and troubleshooting techniques to resolve common problems like connection failures, missing parameters, and syntax errors. 

After completing this course, you'll have gained a robust understanding of Ansible, with the ability to create efficient playbooks, manage inventory, troubleshoot common problems, and automate a wide range of IT tasks. These skills will provide a strong foundation for a thriving career in IT infrastructure management.

Automating IT Infrastructure with Ansible

# Task

Using Ansible, we can automate creating a text report with our systems' resource usage. It displays the execution data and the CPU and RAM available in the system.

# Explanation

In this exercise, create a text file named `report.txt` in the `/usercode` directory using Ansible. To complete the task, you need to perform the following steps:

1. In the `report.yml` file, write a play named "exercise".

2. Now, add a task named "creating a text file" and make the necessary changes in the playbook to create the `report.txt` file in the `/usercode/` directory.

3. The `report.txt`  should display `DATE`, `vCPU`, `RAM`, and the current version of Ansible, similar to the following:

   ```s
   DATE: 2023-03-14
   vCPU: 1
   RAM: 3681
   Created by Ansible 2.13.7
   ```



Create a resource usage text report with an Ansible playbook.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Exercise: Ansible Language

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