Ansible 302 - Ansible Tower/Ansible AWX

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$2,595.00 USD

Duration
4 Days

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
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Course Overview

In this course students will focus on controlling the latest version of Ansible Tower AWX. This begins with a deployment into a Kubernetes cluster, and moves quickly into exploring the configuration options of AWX. Students will learn to navigate the AWX GUI, trigger jobs with webhooks, build and deploy custom execution environments, and design workflow job templates. All enrolled students have the opportunity to earn an AWX certification at the conclusion of the course. Note: The focus of this course focuses on using AWX, not writing Ansible playooks.

Course Objectives

AWX Web GUI
AWX RESTful API
Control / Execution Plane
Integration with “your” SCM (GitLab, GitHub, etc.)
“Big picture” workflows
An understanding of containers and Execution Environments
AI LLM prompt engineering for generating Dockerfile and other relevant configurations

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Ansible Engineers
DevOps Engineers
Software Developers
System Administrators
Managers

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Agenda

Ansible AWX workflows

AWX “Big Picture”
Ansible Workflow with AWX
Python pip dependencies
Collections
Introduction to containers
Building execution environments
Ansible builder
Ansible runner integration
Is AWX different from Tower?

Deploying AWX

Kubernetes overview
Why AWX deploys into Kubernetes not “just” docker
Kubernetes installers
minikube
kubectl
Kubernetes Pod vs Containers
Containers and VMs- how we use both to run AWX in a Kubernetes cluster
AWX Operator
AWX Control Plane / Execution Plane
AWX Execution Environments

AWX API

RESTful APIs
Triggering workflows with AWX APIs
Websockets
HTTP Token Access

Using AWX

Relaunch on Hosts with Status
Scheduled Jobs
Task manager system
Background Tasks in AWX
Job templates
Workflow templates
Webhooks (gitlab and github)
Job Branch Override
Ansible Callback and Job Events
Job slicing

AWX Inventory

AWX Inventory vs Ansible Host File
Transition to Ansible Inventory Plugins
Inventory refresh
SCM Inventory

Triggering Automation

Launch-time Configurations / Prompting
Webhooks
Gitlab Runner
Gitlab Pipeline (gitlab-ci)
Using dynamic inventory with awx
Building out organization team and user hierarchy

Results and Metrics

Running a Prometheus Container
AWX as an Ansible Fact Cache
Insights Integration
Logging integration
Notification system

AWX Architecture

Capacity
Clustering
Container Groups
CORS support
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
AWX scaling

Auth & Credentials

LDAP
Oauth
SAML
Sessions
Credentials
Index
Credential Plugins
Custom credential types
Extracting Credential Values
Multi-Credential Assignment

Troubleshooting

Debugging
AWX Job Event Performance Debugging
Slow API Endpoint
Development tips

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