This 3-day intensive course is designed for professionals who want to implement advanced automation using Ansible for configuration management and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
Participants will learn to write complex playbooks, use variables, roles, modules, and Vault in Ansible, and design efficient, reusable, and secure configurations in Terraform. The course is aligned with the certification objectives Certified Ansible & Terraform Professional Artisan and includes complete practical scenarios.
The course is intended for:
• DevOps engineers with automation experience
• Cloud engineers who want to manage infrastructure through code
• System administrators implementing IAC solutions
• Automation specialists using Ansible and Terraform in real projects
• Professionals who have completed the Associate level and want to certify advanced skills
• Create and manage complex configurations with Ansible
• Use Jinja2 modules, roles, templates, and Ansible Vault
• Design, execute, and monitor infrastructure with Terraform
• Work with Terraform modules, state management, and backends
• Automate complete infrastructure provisioning and service configuration
• Apply best practices in testing, reuse and security in automation
• Active certification Certified Ansible & Chef Associate Artisan
• Previous experience with Ansible and basic Terraform concepts
• Familiarity with YAML, Jinja2, CLI, variables and concepts cloud
• Recommended: Experience in managing configurations at scale and provisioning in cloud
🔹 Day 1 – Advanced Ansible Foundations
Module 1: Core Concepts & Architecture
• Ansible architecture, benefits, and supported systems
• Agentless design, performance, security considerations
Module 2: Working with Inventory & Configuration
• Inventory types (static, dynamic), groups and variables
• Configuration file structure and prompt handling
• Dynamic inventory plugins and scripts
Module 3: Playbooks, Tasks & Handlers
• YAML syntax and playbook anatomy
• Tasks vs plays vs handlers
• Idempotent tasks, task result types
• Tags, async tasks, conditionals, loops
• Handlers, retries, execution control
Module 4: Variables, Facts & Templates
• Fact gathering, custom facts
• Variable precedence and usage
• Jinja2 templating and filters
• Module templates, common filters
Module 5: Roles, Lookups & Vault
• Roles directory structure and usage
• Variable roles and reusability
• Lookup plugins and evaluation
• Ansible Vault: encryption, commands, and performance
🔹 Day 2 – Advanced Ansible Techniques & Terraform Basics
Module 6: Advanced Execution Strategies in Ansible
• Execution strategies, pipelining, debugging
• Delegation, include vs import
• Handling unreachable hosts
• Ansible Pull & Ansible Galaxy usage
• Ansible Molecule basics for testing
Module 7: Terraform Fundamentals
• Declarative language model
• Providers and provider constraints
• Aliased and multiple providers
• Output blocks and resource addressing
Module 8: Terraform CLI & Workflow
• Terraform init, validate, import
• Plan, apply, destroy behavior and error handling
• Resource lifecycle and infrastructure change planning
Module 9: Terraform Syntax & Variables
• Data types and built-in functions
• Variables and tfvars usage
• terraform { } block configuration
🔹 Day 3 – Terraform Modules, State Management & Automation Practices
Module 10: Writing & Managing Terraform Configurations
• Resource and data source syntax
• Dynamic blocks and local/remote exec provisioners
• Error handling and tainting
• Resource dependencies and module design
• Importing modules and using providers in modules
Module 11: Managing Terraform States
• State file structure and use
• Idempotency and state locking
• State refresh mechanisms
• State file modification commands
• Backend types and remote storage
Final Lab: Full Automation Scenario
• Use Terraform to provision cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or locally with libvirt)
• Configure services with Ansible using dynamic inventory
• Apply Ansible Vault for secrets and deploy via playbooks
• Use Jinja2 templates and variables for configuration
• Validate infrastructure and simulated lifecycle changes
Please note that the above agenda is indicative and may be subject to change depending on the trainer assigned to the course. To obtain the final version of the agenda, we invite you to contact one of the consultants Bittnet Training.
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This course is aligned with the certification Certified Ansible & Terraform Professional Artisan, which validates advanced skills in infrastructure automation and service configuration in complex and dynamic environments.
