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

# YAML syntax

Some computer programming languages rely heavily on curly brackets, commas, and other symbols to understand which instructions belong to which computer block. The YAML manifest format relies heavily on the correct indentation to classify the blocks in the computer block execution statements. This is similar to the Python programming language.


A syntax error is one of the most common errors in Ansible. 
Misplaced whitespace often ends in a simple trivial error, and it could significantly impact our code when performed in our Ansible playbook. Most of the time, the root cause is simply a space missing or in the wrong place.
When we have a wrong YAML syntax, Ansible shows us the following fatal error message:



Learn how to troubleshoot and solve the syntax error.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Syntax Error

YAML syntax