Docker Captain and Industry Veteran James Spurin (25+ Years experience in Technology, a career spanning Engineering/Development and Senior Management at Goldman Sachs, Dell EMC and Virgin Internet) brings you The Most Concise Ansible Learning Resource Available! Taking you from Beginner to Advanced in one course!

Free Local Lab and Cloud based Ansible Environment included (can be run locally on Mac/Windows and Linux or online in your browser for free). The learning environment has been accessed over 250K times by students across the world!

Student Testimonial: "This course is complete, concise, and it will take you from zero to hero while explaining all of the concepts clearly and thoroughly. The Lab feature will get you started in no time, providing an amazing consistent and error-free environment to follow the course. I went from zero to managing my infrastructure reliably after this course. Highly recommended!!!"

What is covered in this course?

An introduction to the principles of Ansible is provided, along with simple hands-on activities that you may practice locally on your system orin your web browser. The course startswith Ansible's fundamentalsbefore moving on to Inventories, Modules, Variables, YAML, Playbooks, Roles and more including Ansible with AWS and Docker!

Every example is also provided in a convenient repository, allowing you to follow along exactly as per the video or as a starting base, for your own creation. Quizzes and challenges included throughout the journey to reinforce the learning experience!

What is different about this course?

The lab environment and hands-on learning gets you confident in learning Ansible from the offset and this sets this apart from other courses on the market. Within the first chapter, you'll be hands on using Ansible rather than just looking at slides and all learning is reinforced along the way through beautiful presentations as well as challenges and quizzes. Just see what our students say -

Student Testimonial: "It has been an incredible experience completing this course. I must say that James has done a really good job at creating this training, the lab, the quality and dedication from him is rewarding on its own. Thanks James!"

Student Testimonial: "The way the lab is available both locally and on Google could is an amazing idea. The revision way of presenting is also a very good idea. It is one of the best structured trainings I've ever seen. Highly recommended"

Student Testimonial: "Great information and interactive course. Really goes in depth to help you under stand why something works. Really makes you understand how and why Ansible works"

What else?

I personally maintain and manage this course and am constantly updating it! It is now on it's 2nd major revision since it was first published and there have been many minor updates, the course has been updated to reflect changes to version 2,3,4 and 5 of Ansible and will continue to be updated as Ansible changes.

All content is available in 1080p, the highest available in Udemy, select this within the player.

For those who like Subtitles/Closed Captions, all of these have been personally created rather than autogenerated and are accurate to the timing and vocabulary used in the course.

Why learn Ansible?

Firstly, it's awesome and it will help you out both professionally and personally! Secondly, Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

March 2022 Update:

Course Introduction Update - Meet the Instructor!

Minor corrections across all content where external references have changed

Subtitles/Closed Captions created for all lessons

Google Cloud Shell Lab Instructions (run the lab using the Free Tier of Google Cloud Shell)

February 2022 Update:

Ansible lab updated to 5.3.0

Ansible Lab environment and Docker containers now available as Opensource

January 2022 Update:

All course content refreshed and updated! Improved visuals throughout as well as convenient on-screen QRcodes for external resources (allowing you to quickly access with a phone/tablet). Refreshed links and fixes/corrections for minor changes. Introduction of the Ansible Gym learning challenges.

Updated to use the new v5 release of Ansible.

December 2021 Update:

Course lab can now be run from Google Cloudshell using a free Google account

June 2021 Update:

Updated to use the new v4 release of Ansible.

April 2021 Update:

Updated to use the new v3 release of Ansible.

The lab environment as well as supporting Windows/Mac & Linux on x86 based system, now also supports ARM architectures, therefore allowing the course to be run on the new Apple Silicon architecture (i.e. M1 processors onwards, requires a supported version of Docker Desktop) or Raspberry Pi 4's.

December 2020 Update:

The course has received a major revamp and a brand new version has been released known as Dive Into Ansible, replacing the previous edition of Mastering Ansible. As an existing subscriber, you automatically receive this brand new version at no extra cost.

I've listened to all of your feedback and the new version brings with it some exciting updates. In particular -

• All of the course, has been updated to the very latest version of Ansible, which at this time is 2.10

• Python 3, is used as standard throughout the course

• The lab experience has been enhanced significantly. We've moved away from the Virtualbox based Virtual Machines and the lab runs entirely as containers in Docker! The lab can be launched with a single command and all systems, are now also accessible from your web browser!

• Hands on exercises

• Quizzes

• A playbook project where we launch a website with a special easter egg, an Ansible themed game known as 'Playbook Stacker'

  
  

About the Author:

James Spurin is a Docker Captain and IT professional with over 25 years of experience in a variety of technology fields including Internet Technologies, Automation, Software Development, Storage, Unix Administration and Management. He holds an MSc with Distinction in Computer Science, Software Engineering from Liverpool University.

Professionally he has worked for a variety of major organizations including Dell EMC, Goldman Sachs, Nomura, and Virgin Internet. He is an active contributor to Opensource software and is thecreator and maintainer of XML Dataset, a Python library featured on theawesome Python list for parsing XML data. He is also a contributor to many Opensource projects including Ansible!