DO374 - Ansible Automation: Advanced Development Training Course

Advanced Development of Ansible Playbooks

• Utilizing variables, loops, conditional statements, and handlers
• Leveraging blocks, error handling mechanisms, and tagging
• Architecting complex playbook structures

Jinja2 and Templating Methodologies

• Application of advanced filters and lookups
• Generation of dynamic templates
• Best practices for templating

Custom Modules and Plugins

• Development of custom modules using Python
• Implementation of filters, callbacks, and connection plugins
• Strategies for debugging and logging

Collections and Roles

• Content organization using roles
• Packaging and distribution of Ansible Collections
• Management of versioning and dependencies

API Integration and External Services

• Interaction with REST APIs via the URI module
• Integration with cloud providers and external tools
• Integration of secrets management

Testing and Validation

• Utilization of ansible-lint, Molecule, and CI/CD pipelines
• Ensuring idempotency and reproducibility
• Static and dynamic analysis of Ansible code

Content Lifecycle and Version Control

• Code management using Git and GitOps
• Change tracking and documentation practices
• CI/CD workflows incorporating Ansible content

Overview and Future Directions