DO374 - Ansible Automation: Advanced Development Training Course

Advanced Development of Ansible Playbooks

• Leveraging variables, loops, conditionals, and handlers
• Implementing blocks, error handling mechanisms, and tags
• Designing the architecture of complex playbooks

Jinja2 and Templating Strategies

• Advanced usage of filters and lookups
• Generating dynamic templates
• Applying best practices for templating

Development of Custom Modules and Plugins

• Creating custom modules using Python
• Utilizing filters, callbacks, and connection plugins
• Strategies for debugging and logging

Managing Collections and Roles

• Structuring content via roles
• Packaging and distributing Ansible Collections
• Handling versioning and dependencies

API Integration and External Service Interaction

• Interacting with REST APIs via the URI module
• Working with cloud providers and external tools
• Integrating secrets management solutions

Testing and Validation Procedures

• Employing ansible-lint, Molecule, and CI/CD pipelines
• Guaranteeing idempotency and reproducibility
• Performing static and dynamic analysis on Ansible code

Content Lifecycle Management and Version Control

• Managing code through Git and GitOps principles
• Tracking changes and maintaining documentation
• Integrating CI/CD workflows with Ansible content

Recap and Future Directions