Hello Everyone ! 🙋♀️
“Expert Practical Demo Session on Ansible.” was the one of the great session. Which had held on 28th December 2020.The session was with two of the best experts from the industry Mr. Sreejith Anujan & Mr. Arun Eapen. Here I am exploring some of keypoints as a summary of expert session which had held on 28th December 2020. The session was about Ansible Tower and it’s use cases with practical implementation.
📌We have completed session with great instructors which are great industry experts .Lets know two of the best experts of the industry-
✔ Mr. Sreejith Anujan
The Principal Instructor at Red Hat
▪️Primarily responsible for empowering Red Hat customers with tailor-made enablement services.
▪️Also heading the designing and delivering high-quality content on integrated solutions and trusted partners across APAC, ANZ, and APJ.
▪️Connected with RedHat for around 12+ years.
✔ Mr. Arun Eapen (Director, APAC Service Delivery, GLS RedHat Asia Pacific)
▪️ Specialist :- Linux and Security
The First RHC*(RHCA, RHCSS, RHCDS, RHCVA) in India.
▪️Founding member of the Free Software Foundation India.
▪️Being in open source software for more than 24 years.
📌 Keypoints & some concepts which I got from this expert session
✔ Ansible is simple open source IT engine which automates application deployment, intra service orchestration, cloud provisioning and many other IT tools. Ansible is easy to deploy because it does not use any agents or custom security infrastructure.
✔ Ansible Tower :- Ansible tower (formally ‘awx’) is web based solution that makes ansible more easy to use for IT teams of all kinds of it’s designed to be the hub for all of your automation tasks. Ansible tower gives a clustering feature.
✔ Learnt about great use cases of ansible which are — Orchestration, Application deployment, O.S provisioning , configuration management etc.
✔ ORCHESTRATION : — Orchestration is step by step automation in which if one automation fails then alternate steps can be used to save that failed automation.
✔ Template : Template is terminology in ansible tower to discover the playbook.
✔ Jinja templates is used in ansible code and has no relation with ansible tower.
✔ Anisble Tower installation requirements : 2 CPU’s , 4GB RAM,20 GB H.D
✔ AWX : Community version of Ansible Tower
✔ I also learnt that how to integrate ansible with Slack
✔ Chatops: It is the basically used for the operation tooling system administration to let the developers to get the notification of their nodes.
✔ One of the great concept I learnt that is WORKFLOW in Ansible Tower.
✔ As well as learnt about Python virtual Environment. We can install our own things in this environments which are out of box of ansible and ansible Tower. Command to create virtual environment is “python3 -m venv path” Command to goes in or activate the created environment is “activate” & “Deactivate ” it is command to go out of the virtual environment.
✔ Ansible Collections : Collections are a distributed format for Ansible clients that can include playbooks, rolls, modules and plugins.
I have learnt lots of important things and use cases of ansible Tower with real practical demo. I would like to say thank you to Mr. Sreejith Anujan & Mr. Arun Eapen . And I also want to say that please keep on conducting such great sessions in future also for our great and bright future. 🤗
Thank you to Mr. Vimal Daga Sir, Preeti Mam for arranging such great session for us.🤗