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Enrol in Mastering AI-Driven Automation with Ansible for Enterprise Scalability and gain immediate access to a world-class, self-paced learning experience engineered for professionals who demand results, clarity, and career advancement. This course is designed from the ground up to eliminate friction, reduce risk, and maximise your return on investment-both professionally and financially. Fully Self-Paced with Immediate Online Access
The moment you enrol, you unlock full access to the entire course curriculum. There are no waiting periods, no scheduled sessions, and no fixed start dates. You progress at your own speed, on your own time, from any location in the world. Whether you have 30 minutes during lunch or a full weekend to dedicate, your learning adapts seamlessly to your lifestyle. No Time Commitments. No Deadlines. Total Flexibility.
This is an on-demand learning system. There are no live classes, no attendance requirements, and no expiration of access based on inactivity. You can pause, resume, and revisit any part of the course as many times as needed. Most learners complete the core content within 6 to 8 weeks when investing 6–8 hours per week, but many report implementing key automation strategies and seeing measurable improvements in their workflows within the first 10 days. Lifetime Access. Forever Updates. No Extra Cost.
Your investment includes lifetime access to all current and future course updates. As AI-driven automation evolves and Ansible continues to expand its enterprise capabilities, this course will be continuously enhanced-free of charge. You'll receive ongoing access to updated content, advanced techniques, newly integrated tools, and emerging best practices, ensuring your knowledge remains cutting-edge for years to come. 24/7 Global Access, Fully Mobile-Friendly
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You are not learning in isolation. Throughout the course, you’ll have access to responsive instructor-led support. Our team of enterprise automation architects and Ansible-certified engineers provides clear, actionable guidance, answers to technical questions, and real-time feedback on implementation strategies. This is not an automated chatbot system-it’s direct access to professionals who’ve deployed these systems at scale across Fortune 500 organisations. Official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
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Absolutely. This course has been meticulously designed to deliver results regardless of your current skill level or job role. If you're an Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Practitioner, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Architect, or IT Operations Lead, the structured, hands-on curriculum is tailored to your real-world challenges. The modular design lets you focus on the areas most relevant to your environment, with role-specific examples that map directly to enterprise workflows. - For DevOps Engineers: Learn to automate CI/CD pipelines with AI-augmented decision logic, reducing deployment errors by up to 78%.
- For Cloud Architects: Build self-healing cloud environments using Ansible playbooks integrated with predictive failure analytics.
- For IT Managers: Gain visibility into automation KPIs, governance frameworks, and ROI tracking models to justify investment.
This works even if you have never used Ansible before, have limited scripting experience, or work in a highly regulated or legacy-heavy environment. Our step-by-step scaffolding approach ensures beginners gain confidence while experts uncover advanced patterns and scalability levers. The system is engineered for inclusion, precision, and real impact-not just theory. Risk Reversal: You Have Everything to Gain, Nothing to Lose
By enrolling today, you gain lifetime access to industry-leading content, a globally-recognised certificate, continuous updates, direct expert support, and a full money-back guarantee. There is no downside. The only risk is not taking action-and falling further behind in an era where AI-driven automation is no longer optional, but essential for career survival and growth.
EXTENSIVE & DETAILED COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1: Foundations of Enterprise Automation and AI Integration - Understanding the evolution of IT automation in the AI era
- Key challenges in enterprise scalability and operational consistency
- The role of AI in decision-making within automated workflows
- Distinguishing between rule-based and cognitive automation
- Defining AI-driven automation maturity levels
- Common failure points in legacy automation systems
- Core principles of idempotency, declarative design, and state management
- Aligning automation strategy with business KPIs
- Introduction to Ansible architecture and agentless execution model
- Comparative analysis: Ansible vs Puppet vs Chef vs SaltStack
- Advantages of YAML-based playbooks for readability and collaboration
- Overview of control node, managed nodes, and inventory structure
- Setting up a secure and scalable Ansible control environment
- Best practices for SSH key management and privilege escalation
- Understanding the role of Python in Ansible execution
Module 2: Designing Scalable Automation Frameworks - Principles of modular and reusable automation design
- Creating scalable project structures for enterprise deployment
- Establishing naming conventions and documentation standards
- Designing role-based access control for team collaboration
- Version control strategies using Git for Ansible workflows
- Branching models for development, staging, and production environments
- Integrating peer review and pull request workflows
- Establishing change management protocols for automation updates
- Creating environment-specific variable hierarchies
- Managing configuration drift across distributed systems
- Designing for auditability and compliance traceability
- Implementing logging and change tracking at scale
- Building internal automation governance frameworks
- Developing standard operating procedures for playbook execution
- Integrating with ITIL processes and service management platforms
Module 3: Advanced Ansible Core Mechanics - Deep dive into Ansible execution flow and task processing
- Understanding connection plugins and transport layers
- Working with asynchronous tasks and polling intervals
- Implementing conditional execution with when statements
- Using tags to selectively run playbook sections
- Dynamic vs static inventory management strategies
- Creating custom inventory plugins for cloud environments
- Using group_vars and host_vars for structured data
- Best practices for variable precedence and scope
- Managing sensitive data with Ansible Vault
- Encrypting and decrypting files at rest and in CI/CD pipelines
- Integrating with external secrets managers like HashiCorp Vault
- Configuring SSH connection tuning for high-latency networks
- Managing forks, timeouts, and execution parallelism
- Using strategy plugins for custom execution behaviour
Module 4: Building Reusable Ansible Roles - Understanding the directory structure of Ansible roles
- Breaking down monolithic playbooks into modular components
- Creating role defaults, variables, tasks, and handlers
- Defining role dependencies and execution order
- Reusing roles across multiple playbooks and environments
- Parameterising roles for maximum flexibility
- Testing role idempotency and convergence
- Documenting role interfaces and expected inputs
- Sharing roles internally via private Galaxy servers
- Consuming and auditing third-party roles from Ansible Galaxy
- Validating role security and code quality
- Automating role linting with yamllint and ansible-lint
- Integrating role testing into automated pipelines
- Managing role versioning and backward compatibility
- Creating role templates for organisational standardisation
Module 5: AI-Powered Decision Logic in Playbooks - Integrating external AI models into Ansible workflows
- Using REST APIs to invoke machine learning predictions
- Capturing AI-generated recommendations as playbook variables
- Implementing dynamic branching based on predictive outcomes
- Using AI to prioritise server remediation tasks
- Automating root cause analysis suggestions using NLP models
- Building feedback loops to improve AI accuracy over time
- Storing historical decisions for pattern analysis
- Setting confidence thresholds for automated actions
- Requiring human approval for low-confidence predictions
- Creating escalation paths for anomalous AI outputs
- Logging AI decision context for audit and compliance
- Integrating with SIEM tools for security event correlation
- Using clustering algorithms to group similar incidents
- Automating capacity planning recommendations using forecasting models
Module 6: Enterprise-Grade Playbook Development - Writing highly maintainable and self-documenting playbooks
- Using blocks for error handling and task grouping
- Implementing rescue and always sections for robustness
- Managing task retries and delay intervals for unstable systems
- Using include_role and import_playbook effectively
- Difference between static and dynamic inclusions
- Minimising playbook redundancy with templates
- Using Jinja2 for dynamic configuration generation
- Advanced Jinja2 filters for data transformation
- Template error handling and validation techniques
- Validating playbook syntax and logic before execution
- Performing dry runs with check mode and diff output
- Testing playbook execution in isolated environments
- Simulating failures to validate error recovery paths
- Measuring playbook execution time and identifying bottlenecks
Module 7: Cloud Infrastructure Automation at Scale - Automating AWS EC2 instance provisioning with dynamic tags
- Configuring VPCs, subnets, and security groups via playbooks
- Managing IAM roles and policies through Ansible
- Deploying Auto Scaling Groups with lifecycle hooks
- Automating RDS database instance creation and backups
- Integrating with AWS Systems Manager for hybrid environments
- Provisioning Azure VMs, resource groups, and NSGs
- Managing Azure storage accounts and blob containers
- Deploying GCP compute instances and firewall rules
- Creating Kubernetes clusters on GKE using Ansible
- Managing multi-cloud environments with consistent patterns
- Handling cloud provider API rate limiting and retries
- Generating infrastructure-as-code reports for compliance
- Integrating cost estimation into provisioning workflows
- Automating cloud resource decommissioning and cleanup
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Automation - Managing Docker hosts and containers with Ansible
- Pulling, building, and pushing images using playbooks
- Configuring Docker Swarm clusters declaratively
- Deploying applications using Docker Compose templates
- Integrating with container registries including private ones
- Deploying Helm charts via Ansible in Kubernetes
- Creating namespaces, deployments, and services automatically
- Managing RBAC policies across Kubernetes clusters
- Scaling applications based on AI-driven traffic predictions
- Automating canary and blue-green deployments
- Handling rolling updates and rollback procedures
- Configuring persistent volumes and storage classes
- Monitoring pod health and triggering self-healing actions
- Exporting Kubernetes manifests from running clusters
- Validating Kubernetes configuration with Kubeval and Conftest
Module 9: Network Automation with Ansible - Automating Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and ASA configurations
- Managing Juniper Junos devices using NETCONF
- Configuring Arista EOS switches with eAPI
- Working with structured data formats like XML and JSON
- Generating configuration templates for network devices
- Performing configuration backups before changes
- Validating syntax and semantics with pre-change checks
- Using diff mode to preview configuration differences
- Implementing zero-downtime network updates
- Automating compliance checks against baseline standards
- Archiving configurations to version control systems
- Integrating with network monitoring tools like SolarWinds
- Handling device authentication and session timeouts
- Scaling network automation across thousands of devices
- Creating self-documenting network state reports
Module 10: Security and Compliance Automation - Enforcing CIS benchmarks using automated playbooks
- Hardening operating systems across Linux and Windows
- Automating firewall rule reviews and cleanup
- Managing user accounts and group memberships
- Enforcing password policies and expiration rules
- Monitoring for unauthorised configuration changes
- Integrating with vulnerability scanners like Nessus and Qualys
- Automating patch management across heterogeneous environments
- Generating compliance reports for auditors
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 control checks
- Handling privileged access in accordance with ISO 27001
- Automating certificate renewal and rotation processes
- Detecting and remediating misconfigurations in real time
- Creating audit trails for all security-related actions
- Integrating with SIEM platforms for event correlation
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability Automation - Automating deployment of Prometheus exporters
- Configuring Grafana dashboards using API calls
- Setting up alerting rules in Prometheus and Alertmanager
- Automatically generating monitoring configurations
- Integrating with Nagios, Zabbix, and Sensu
- Deploying distributed tracing systems like Jaeger
- Collecting logs with Fluentd and forwarding to ELK stack
- Creating structured logging standards across teams
- Automating incident creation in ticketing systems
- Linking monitoring data to AI-driven anomaly detection
- Predicting outages using time series forecasting models
- Automating root cause analysis with correlated metrics
- Generating performance baselines and deviation reports
- Automating capacity forecasting and scaling actions
- Sending executive-level operational summaries via email
Module 12: CI/CD Pipeline Automation - Integrating Ansible with Jenkins for deployment automation
- Using GitLab CI to trigger playbooks on merge requests
- Configuring GitHub Actions to run Ansible tests
- Validating infrastructure changes before production rollout
- Automating environment promotion workflows
- Running integration tests in ephemeral environments
- Destroying temporary environments after testing
- Measuring deployment success rate and rollback frequency
- Automating code quality gate checks
- Integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Generating deployment audit trails for compliance
- Scheduling off-hours maintenance windows automatically
- Notifying stakeholders of deployment status
- Creating custom pipeline metrics and dashboards
- Optimising pipeline execution time through parallelisation
Module 13: Real-World Automation Projects - Building a self-service server provisioning portal
- Automating onboarding of new employees with IT assets
- Creating a disaster recovery playbook for data centres
- Designing a multi-region failover automation system
- Automating quarterly financial reporting infrastructure
- Building a patch Tuesday automation scheduler for Windows
- Creating dynamic load balancer configuration updates
- Automating database schema migrations with rollback
- Implementing zero-touch network device onboarding
- Building AI-driven backup retention policies
- Creating compliance-as-code workflows for audits
- Automating development environment spin-up for Agile teams
- Scaling Kubernetes clusters based on AI predictions
- Automating certificate lifecycle management
- Building a security incident response automation runbook
Module 14: Enterprise Integration and Orchestration - Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
Module 1: Foundations of Enterprise Automation and AI Integration - Understanding the evolution of IT automation in the AI era
- Key challenges in enterprise scalability and operational consistency
- The role of AI in decision-making within automated workflows
- Distinguishing between rule-based and cognitive automation
- Defining AI-driven automation maturity levels
- Common failure points in legacy automation systems
- Core principles of idempotency, declarative design, and state management
- Aligning automation strategy with business KPIs
- Introduction to Ansible architecture and agentless execution model
- Comparative analysis: Ansible vs Puppet vs Chef vs SaltStack
- Advantages of YAML-based playbooks for readability and collaboration
- Overview of control node, managed nodes, and inventory structure
- Setting up a secure and scalable Ansible control environment
- Best practices for SSH key management and privilege escalation
- Understanding the role of Python in Ansible execution
Module 2: Designing Scalable Automation Frameworks - Principles of modular and reusable automation design
- Creating scalable project structures for enterprise deployment
- Establishing naming conventions and documentation standards
- Designing role-based access control for team collaboration
- Version control strategies using Git for Ansible workflows
- Branching models for development, staging, and production environments
- Integrating peer review and pull request workflows
- Establishing change management protocols for automation updates
- Creating environment-specific variable hierarchies
- Managing configuration drift across distributed systems
- Designing for auditability and compliance traceability
- Implementing logging and change tracking at scale
- Building internal automation governance frameworks
- Developing standard operating procedures for playbook execution
- Integrating with ITIL processes and service management platforms
Module 3: Advanced Ansible Core Mechanics - Deep dive into Ansible execution flow and task processing
- Understanding connection plugins and transport layers
- Working with asynchronous tasks and polling intervals
- Implementing conditional execution with when statements
- Using tags to selectively run playbook sections
- Dynamic vs static inventory management strategies
- Creating custom inventory plugins for cloud environments
- Using group_vars and host_vars for structured data
- Best practices for variable precedence and scope
- Managing sensitive data with Ansible Vault
- Encrypting and decrypting files at rest and in CI/CD pipelines
- Integrating with external secrets managers like HashiCorp Vault
- Configuring SSH connection tuning for high-latency networks
- Managing forks, timeouts, and execution parallelism
- Using strategy plugins for custom execution behaviour
Module 4: Building Reusable Ansible Roles - Understanding the directory structure of Ansible roles
- Breaking down monolithic playbooks into modular components
- Creating role defaults, variables, tasks, and handlers
- Defining role dependencies and execution order
- Reusing roles across multiple playbooks and environments
- Parameterising roles for maximum flexibility
- Testing role idempotency and convergence
- Documenting role interfaces and expected inputs
- Sharing roles internally via private Galaxy servers
- Consuming and auditing third-party roles from Ansible Galaxy
- Validating role security and code quality
- Automating role linting with yamllint and ansible-lint
- Integrating role testing into automated pipelines
- Managing role versioning and backward compatibility
- Creating role templates for organisational standardisation
Module 5: AI-Powered Decision Logic in Playbooks - Integrating external AI models into Ansible workflows
- Using REST APIs to invoke machine learning predictions
- Capturing AI-generated recommendations as playbook variables
- Implementing dynamic branching based on predictive outcomes
- Using AI to prioritise server remediation tasks
- Automating root cause analysis suggestions using NLP models
- Building feedback loops to improve AI accuracy over time
- Storing historical decisions for pattern analysis
- Setting confidence thresholds for automated actions
- Requiring human approval for low-confidence predictions
- Creating escalation paths for anomalous AI outputs
- Logging AI decision context for audit and compliance
- Integrating with SIEM tools for security event correlation
- Using clustering algorithms to group similar incidents
- Automating capacity planning recommendations using forecasting models
Module 6: Enterprise-Grade Playbook Development - Writing highly maintainable and self-documenting playbooks
- Using blocks for error handling and task grouping
- Implementing rescue and always sections for robustness
- Managing task retries and delay intervals for unstable systems
- Using include_role and import_playbook effectively
- Difference between static and dynamic inclusions
- Minimising playbook redundancy with templates
- Using Jinja2 for dynamic configuration generation
- Advanced Jinja2 filters for data transformation
- Template error handling and validation techniques
- Validating playbook syntax and logic before execution
- Performing dry runs with check mode and diff output
- Testing playbook execution in isolated environments
- Simulating failures to validate error recovery paths
- Measuring playbook execution time and identifying bottlenecks
Module 7: Cloud Infrastructure Automation at Scale - Automating AWS EC2 instance provisioning with dynamic tags
- Configuring VPCs, subnets, and security groups via playbooks
- Managing IAM roles and policies through Ansible
- Deploying Auto Scaling Groups with lifecycle hooks
- Automating RDS database instance creation and backups
- Integrating with AWS Systems Manager for hybrid environments
- Provisioning Azure VMs, resource groups, and NSGs
- Managing Azure storage accounts and blob containers
- Deploying GCP compute instances and firewall rules
- Creating Kubernetes clusters on GKE using Ansible
- Managing multi-cloud environments with consistent patterns
- Handling cloud provider API rate limiting and retries
- Generating infrastructure-as-code reports for compliance
- Integrating cost estimation into provisioning workflows
- Automating cloud resource decommissioning and cleanup
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Automation - Managing Docker hosts and containers with Ansible
- Pulling, building, and pushing images using playbooks
- Configuring Docker Swarm clusters declaratively
- Deploying applications using Docker Compose templates
- Integrating with container registries including private ones
- Deploying Helm charts via Ansible in Kubernetes
- Creating namespaces, deployments, and services automatically
- Managing RBAC policies across Kubernetes clusters
- Scaling applications based on AI-driven traffic predictions
- Automating canary and blue-green deployments
- Handling rolling updates and rollback procedures
- Configuring persistent volumes and storage classes
- Monitoring pod health and triggering self-healing actions
- Exporting Kubernetes manifests from running clusters
- Validating Kubernetes configuration with Kubeval and Conftest
Module 9: Network Automation with Ansible - Automating Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and ASA configurations
- Managing Juniper Junos devices using NETCONF
- Configuring Arista EOS switches with eAPI
- Working with structured data formats like XML and JSON
- Generating configuration templates for network devices
- Performing configuration backups before changes
- Validating syntax and semantics with pre-change checks
- Using diff mode to preview configuration differences
- Implementing zero-downtime network updates
- Automating compliance checks against baseline standards
- Archiving configurations to version control systems
- Integrating with network monitoring tools like SolarWinds
- Handling device authentication and session timeouts
- Scaling network automation across thousands of devices
- Creating self-documenting network state reports
Module 10: Security and Compliance Automation - Enforcing CIS benchmarks using automated playbooks
- Hardening operating systems across Linux and Windows
- Automating firewall rule reviews and cleanup
- Managing user accounts and group memberships
- Enforcing password policies and expiration rules
- Monitoring for unauthorised configuration changes
- Integrating with vulnerability scanners like Nessus and Qualys
- Automating patch management across heterogeneous environments
- Generating compliance reports for auditors
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 control checks
- Handling privileged access in accordance with ISO 27001
- Automating certificate renewal and rotation processes
- Detecting and remediating misconfigurations in real time
- Creating audit trails for all security-related actions
- Integrating with SIEM platforms for event correlation
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability Automation - Automating deployment of Prometheus exporters
- Configuring Grafana dashboards using API calls
- Setting up alerting rules in Prometheus and Alertmanager
- Automatically generating monitoring configurations
- Integrating with Nagios, Zabbix, and Sensu
- Deploying distributed tracing systems like Jaeger
- Collecting logs with Fluentd and forwarding to ELK stack
- Creating structured logging standards across teams
- Automating incident creation in ticketing systems
- Linking monitoring data to AI-driven anomaly detection
- Predicting outages using time series forecasting models
- Automating root cause analysis with correlated metrics
- Generating performance baselines and deviation reports
- Automating capacity forecasting and scaling actions
- Sending executive-level operational summaries via email
Module 12: CI/CD Pipeline Automation - Integrating Ansible with Jenkins for deployment automation
- Using GitLab CI to trigger playbooks on merge requests
- Configuring GitHub Actions to run Ansible tests
- Validating infrastructure changes before production rollout
- Automating environment promotion workflows
- Running integration tests in ephemeral environments
- Destroying temporary environments after testing
- Measuring deployment success rate and rollback frequency
- Automating code quality gate checks
- Integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Generating deployment audit trails for compliance
- Scheduling off-hours maintenance windows automatically
- Notifying stakeholders of deployment status
- Creating custom pipeline metrics and dashboards
- Optimising pipeline execution time through parallelisation
Module 13: Real-World Automation Projects - Building a self-service server provisioning portal
- Automating onboarding of new employees with IT assets
- Creating a disaster recovery playbook for data centres
- Designing a multi-region failover automation system
- Automating quarterly financial reporting infrastructure
- Building a patch Tuesday automation scheduler for Windows
- Creating dynamic load balancer configuration updates
- Automating database schema migrations with rollback
- Implementing zero-touch network device onboarding
- Building AI-driven backup retention policies
- Creating compliance-as-code workflows for audits
- Automating development environment spin-up for Agile teams
- Scaling Kubernetes clusters based on AI predictions
- Automating certificate lifecycle management
- Building a security incident response automation runbook
Module 14: Enterprise Integration and Orchestration - Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
- Principles of modular and reusable automation design
- Creating scalable project structures for enterprise deployment
- Establishing naming conventions and documentation standards
- Designing role-based access control for team collaboration
- Version control strategies using Git for Ansible workflows
- Branching models for development, staging, and production environments
- Integrating peer review and pull request workflows
- Establishing change management protocols for automation updates
- Creating environment-specific variable hierarchies
- Managing configuration drift across distributed systems
- Designing for auditability and compliance traceability
- Implementing logging and change tracking at scale
- Building internal automation governance frameworks
- Developing standard operating procedures for playbook execution
- Integrating with ITIL processes and service management platforms
Module 3: Advanced Ansible Core Mechanics - Deep dive into Ansible execution flow and task processing
- Understanding connection plugins and transport layers
- Working with asynchronous tasks and polling intervals
- Implementing conditional execution with when statements
- Using tags to selectively run playbook sections
- Dynamic vs static inventory management strategies
- Creating custom inventory plugins for cloud environments
- Using group_vars and host_vars for structured data
- Best practices for variable precedence and scope
- Managing sensitive data with Ansible Vault
- Encrypting and decrypting files at rest and in CI/CD pipelines
- Integrating with external secrets managers like HashiCorp Vault
- Configuring SSH connection tuning for high-latency networks
- Managing forks, timeouts, and execution parallelism
- Using strategy plugins for custom execution behaviour
Module 4: Building Reusable Ansible Roles - Understanding the directory structure of Ansible roles
- Breaking down monolithic playbooks into modular components
- Creating role defaults, variables, tasks, and handlers
- Defining role dependencies and execution order
- Reusing roles across multiple playbooks and environments
- Parameterising roles for maximum flexibility
- Testing role idempotency and convergence
- Documenting role interfaces and expected inputs
- Sharing roles internally via private Galaxy servers
- Consuming and auditing third-party roles from Ansible Galaxy
- Validating role security and code quality
- Automating role linting with yamllint and ansible-lint
- Integrating role testing into automated pipelines
- Managing role versioning and backward compatibility
- Creating role templates for organisational standardisation
Module 5: AI-Powered Decision Logic in Playbooks - Integrating external AI models into Ansible workflows
- Using REST APIs to invoke machine learning predictions
- Capturing AI-generated recommendations as playbook variables
- Implementing dynamic branching based on predictive outcomes
- Using AI to prioritise server remediation tasks
- Automating root cause analysis suggestions using NLP models
- Building feedback loops to improve AI accuracy over time
- Storing historical decisions for pattern analysis
- Setting confidence thresholds for automated actions
- Requiring human approval for low-confidence predictions
- Creating escalation paths for anomalous AI outputs
- Logging AI decision context for audit and compliance
- Integrating with SIEM tools for security event correlation
- Using clustering algorithms to group similar incidents
- Automating capacity planning recommendations using forecasting models
Module 6: Enterprise-Grade Playbook Development - Writing highly maintainable and self-documenting playbooks
- Using blocks for error handling and task grouping
- Implementing rescue and always sections for robustness
- Managing task retries and delay intervals for unstable systems
- Using include_role and import_playbook effectively
- Difference between static and dynamic inclusions
- Minimising playbook redundancy with templates
- Using Jinja2 for dynamic configuration generation
- Advanced Jinja2 filters for data transformation
- Template error handling and validation techniques
- Validating playbook syntax and logic before execution
- Performing dry runs with check mode and diff output
- Testing playbook execution in isolated environments
- Simulating failures to validate error recovery paths
- Measuring playbook execution time and identifying bottlenecks
Module 7: Cloud Infrastructure Automation at Scale - Automating AWS EC2 instance provisioning with dynamic tags
- Configuring VPCs, subnets, and security groups via playbooks
- Managing IAM roles and policies through Ansible
- Deploying Auto Scaling Groups with lifecycle hooks
- Automating RDS database instance creation and backups
- Integrating with AWS Systems Manager for hybrid environments
- Provisioning Azure VMs, resource groups, and NSGs
- Managing Azure storage accounts and blob containers
- Deploying GCP compute instances and firewall rules
- Creating Kubernetes clusters on GKE using Ansible
- Managing multi-cloud environments with consistent patterns
- Handling cloud provider API rate limiting and retries
- Generating infrastructure-as-code reports for compliance
- Integrating cost estimation into provisioning workflows
- Automating cloud resource decommissioning and cleanup
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Automation - Managing Docker hosts and containers with Ansible
- Pulling, building, and pushing images using playbooks
- Configuring Docker Swarm clusters declaratively
- Deploying applications using Docker Compose templates
- Integrating with container registries including private ones
- Deploying Helm charts via Ansible in Kubernetes
- Creating namespaces, deployments, and services automatically
- Managing RBAC policies across Kubernetes clusters
- Scaling applications based on AI-driven traffic predictions
- Automating canary and blue-green deployments
- Handling rolling updates and rollback procedures
- Configuring persistent volumes and storage classes
- Monitoring pod health and triggering self-healing actions
- Exporting Kubernetes manifests from running clusters
- Validating Kubernetes configuration with Kubeval and Conftest
Module 9: Network Automation with Ansible - Automating Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and ASA configurations
- Managing Juniper Junos devices using NETCONF
- Configuring Arista EOS switches with eAPI
- Working with structured data formats like XML and JSON
- Generating configuration templates for network devices
- Performing configuration backups before changes
- Validating syntax and semantics with pre-change checks
- Using diff mode to preview configuration differences
- Implementing zero-downtime network updates
- Automating compliance checks against baseline standards
- Archiving configurations to version control systems
- Integrating with network monitoring tools like SolarWinds
- Handling device authentication and session timeouts
- Scaling network automation across thousands of devices
- Creating self-documenting network state reports
Module 10: Security and Compliance Automation - Enforcing CIS benchmarks using automated playbooks
- Hardening operating systems across Linux and Windows
- Automating firewall rule reviews and cleanup
- Managing user accounts and group memberships
- Enforcing password policies and expiration rules
- Monitoring for unauthorised configuration changes
- Integrating with vulnerability scanners like Nessus and Qualys
- Automating patch management across heterogeneous environments
- Generating compliance reports for auditors
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 control checks
- Handling privileged access in accordance with ISO 27001
- Automating certificate renewal and rotation processes
- Detecting and remediating misconfigurations in real time
- Creating audit trails for all security-related actions
- Integrating with SIEM platforms for event correlation
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability Automation - Automating deployment of Prometheus exporters
- Configuring Grafana dashboards using API calls
- Setting up alerting rules in Prometheus and Alertmanager
- Automatically generating monitoring configurations
- Integrating with Nagios, Zabbix, and Sensu
- Deploying distributed tracing systems like Jaeger
- Collecting logs with Fluentd and forwarding to ELK stack
- Creating structured logging standards across teams
- Automating incident creation in ticketing systems
- Linking monitoring data to AI-driven anomaly detection
- Predicting outages using time series forecasting models
- Automating root cause analysis with correlated metrics
- Generating performance baselines and deviation reports
- Automating capacity forecasting and scaling actions
- Sending executive-level operational summaries via email
Module 12: CI/CD Pipeline Automation - Integrating Ansible with Jenkins for deployment automation
- Using GitLab CI to trigger playbooks on merge requests
- Configuring GitHub Actions to run Ansible tests
- Validating infrastructure changes before production rollout
- Automating environment promotion workflows
- Running integration tests in ephemeral environments
- Destroying temporary environments after testing
- Measuring deployment success rate and rollback frequency
- Automating code quality gate checks
- Integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Generating deployment audit trails for compliance
- Scheduling off-hours maintenance windows automatically
- Notifying stakeholders of deployment status
- Creating custom pipeline metrics and dashboards
- Optimising pipeline execution time through parallelisation
Module 13: Real-World Automation Projects - Building a self-service server provisioning portal
- Automating onboarding of new employees with IT assets
- Creating a disaster recovery playbook for data centres
- Designing a multi-region failover automation system
- Automating quarterly financial reporting infrastructure
- Building a patch Tuesday automation scheduler for Windows
- Creating dynamic load balancer configuration updates
- Automating database schema migrations with rollback
- Implementing zero-touch network device onboarding
- Building AI-driven backup retention policies
- Creating compliance-as-code workflows for audits
- Automating development environment spin-up for Agile teams
- Scaling Kubernetes clusters based on AI predictions
- Automating certificate lifecycle management
- Building a security incident response automation runbook
Module 14: Enterprise Integration and Orchestration - Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
- Understanding the directory structure of Ansible roles
- Breaking down monolithic playbooks into modular components
- Creating role defaults, variables, tasks, and handlers
- Defining role dependencies and execution order
- Reusing roles across multiple playbooks and environments
- Parameterising roles for maximum flexibility
- Testing role idempotency and convergence
- Documenting role interfaces and expected inputs
- Sharing roles internally via private Galaxy servers
- Consuming and auditing third-party roles from Ansible Galaxy
- Validating role security and code quality
- Automating role linting with yamllint and ansible-lint
- Integrating role testing into automated pipelines
- Managing role versioning and backward compatibility
- Creating role templates for organisational standardisation
Module 5: AI-Powered Decision Logic in Playbooks - Integrating external AI models into Ansible workflows
- Using REST APIs to invoke machine learning predictions
- Capturing AI-generated recommendations as playbook variables
- Implementing dynamic branching based on predictive outcomes
- Using AI to prioritise server remediation tasks
- Automating root cause analysis suggestions using NLP models
- Building feedback loops to improve AI accuracy over time
- Storing historical decisions for pattern analysis
- Setting confidence thresholds for automated actions
- Requiring human approval for low-confidence predictions
- Creating escalation paths for anomalous AI outputs
- Logging AI decision context for audit and compliance
- Integrating with SIEM tools for security event correlation
- Using clustering algorithms to group similar incidents
- Automating capacity planning recommendations using forecasting models
Module 6: Enterprise-Grade Playbook Development - Writing highly maintainable and self-documenting playbooks
- Using blocks for error handling and task grouping
- Implementing rescue and always sections for robustness
- Managing task retries and delay intervals for unstable systems
- Using include_role and import_playbook effectively
- Difference between static and dynamic inclusions
- Minimising playbook redundancy with templates
- Using Jinja2 for dynamic configuration generation
- Advanced Jinja2 filters for data transformation
- Template error handling and validation techniques
- Validating playbook syntax and logic before execution
- Performing dry runs with check mode and diff output
- Testing playbook execution in isolated environments
- Simulating failures to validate error recovery paths
- Measuring playbook execution time and identifying bottlenecks
Module 7: Cloud Infrastructure Automation at Scale - Automating AWS EC2 instance provisioning with dynamic tags
- Configuring VPCs, subnets, and security groups via playbooks
- Managing IAM roles and policies through Ansible
- Deploying Auto Scaling Groups with lifecycle hooks
- Automating RDS database instance creation and backups
- Integrating with AWS Systems Manager for hybrid environments
- Provisioning Azure VMs, resource groups, and NSGs
- Managing Azure storage accounts and blob containers
- Deploying GCP compute instances and firewall rules
- Creating Kubernetes clusters on GKE using Ansible
- Managing multi-cloud environments with consistent patterns
- Handling cloud provider API rate limiting and retries
- Generating infrastructure-as-code reports for compliance
- Integrating cost estimation into provisioning workflows
- Automating cloud resource decommissioning and cleanup
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Automation - Managing Docker hosts and containers with Ansible
- Pulling, building, and pushing images using playbooks
- Configuring Docker Swarm clusters declaratively
- Deploying applications using Docker Compose templates
- Integrating with container registries including private ones
- Deploying Helm charts via Ansible in Kubernetes
- Creating namespaces, deployments, and services automatically
- Managing RBAC policies across Kubernetes clusters
- Scaling applications based on AI-driven traffic predictions
- Automating canary and blue-green deployments
- Handling rolling updates and rollback procedures
- Configuring persistent volumes and storage classes
- Monitoring pod health and triggering self-healing actions
- Exporting Kubernetes manifests from running clusters
- Validating Kubernetes configuration with Kubeval and Conftest
Module 9: Network Automation with Ansible - Automating Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and ASA configurations
- Managing Juniper Junos devices using NETCONF
- Configuring Arista EOS switches with eAPI
- Working with structured data formats like XML and JSON
- Generating configuration templates for network devices
- Performing configuration backups before changes
- Validating syntax and semantics with pre-change checks
- Using diff mode to preview configuration differences
- Implementing zero-downtime network updates
- Automating compliance checks against baseline standards
- Archiving configurations to version control systems
- Integrating with network monitoring tools like SolarWinds
- Handling device authentication and session timeouts
- Scaling network automation across thousands of devices
- Creating self-documenting network state reports
Module 10: Security and Compliance Automation - Enforcing CIS benchmarks using automated playbooks
- Hardening operating systems across Linux and Windows
- Automating firewall rule reviews and cleanup
- Managing user accounts and group memberships
- Enforcing password policies and expiration rules
- Monitoring for unauthorised configuration changes
- Integrating with vulnerability scanners like Nessus and Qualys
- Automating patch management across heterogeneous environments
- Generating compliance reports for auditors
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 control checks
- Handling privileged access in accordance with ISO 27001
- Automating certificate renewal and rotation processes
- Detecting and remediating misconfigurations in real time
- Creating audit trails for all security-related actions
- Integrating with SIEM platforms for event correlation
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability Automation - Automating deployment of Prometheus exporters
- Configuring Grafana dashboards using API calls
- Setting up alerting rules in Prometheus and Alertmanager
- Automatically generating monitoring configurations
- Integrating with Nagios, Zabbix, and Sensu
- Deploying distributed tracing systems like Jaeger
- Collecting logs with Fluentd and forwarding to ELK stack
- Creating structured logging standards across teams
- Automating incident creation in ticketing systems
- Linking monitoring data to AI-driven anomaly detection
- Predicting outages using time series forecasting models
- Automating root cause analysis with correlated metrics
- Generating performance baselines and deviation reports
- Automating capacity forecasting and scaling actions
- Sending executive-level operational summaries via email
Module 12: CI/CD Pipeline Automation - Integrating Ansible with Jenkins for deployment automation
- Using GitLab CI to trigger playbooks on merge requests
- Configuring GitHub Actions to run Ansible tests
- Validating infrastructure changes before production rollout
- Automating environment promotion workflows
- Running integration tests in ephemeral environments
- Destroying temporary environments after testing
- Measuring deployment success rate and rollback frequency
- Automating code quality gate checks
- Integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Generating deployment audit trails for compliance
- Scheduling off-hours maintenance windows automatically
- Notifying stakeholders of deployment status
- Creating custom pipeline metrics and dashboards
- Optimising pipeline execution time through parallelisation
Module 13: Real-World Automation Projects - Building a self-service server provisioning portal
- Automating onboarding of new employees with IT assets
- Creating a disaster recovery playbook for data centres
- Designing a multi-region failover automation system
- Automating quarterly financial reporting infrastructure
- Building a patch Tuesday automation scheduler for Windows
- Creating dynamic load balancer configuration updates
- Automating database schema migrations with rollback
- Implementing zero-touch network device onboarding
- Building AI-driven backup retention policies
- Creating compliance-as-code workflows for audits
- Automating development environment spin-up for Agile teams
- Scaling Kubernetes clusters based on AI predictions
- Automating certificate lifecycle management
- Building a security incident response automation runbook
Module 14: Enterprise Integration and Orchestration - Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
- Writing highly maintainable and self-documenting playbooks
- Using blocks for error handling and task grouping
- Implementing rescue and always sections for robustness
- Managing task retries and delay intervals for unstable systems
- Using include_role and import_playbook effectively
- Difference between static and dynamic inclusions
- Minimising playbook redundancy with templates
- Using Jinja2 for dynamic configuration generation
- Advanced Jinja2 filters for data transformation
- Template error handling and validation techniques
- Validating playbook syntax and logic before execution
- Performing dry runs with check mode and diff output
- Testing playbook execution in isolated environments
- Simulating failures to validate error recovery paths
- Measuring playbook execution time and identifying bottlenecks
Module 7: Cloud Infrastructure Automation at Scale - Automating AWS EC2 instance provisioning with dynamic tags
- Configuring VPCs, subnets, and security groups via playbooks
- Managing IAM roles and policies through Ansible
- Deploying Auto Scaling Groups with lifecycle hooks
- Automating RDS database instance creation and backups
- Integrating with AWS Systems Manager for hybrid environments
- Provisioning Azure VMs, resource groups, and NSGs
- Managing Azure storage accounts and blob containers
- Deploying GCP compute instances and firewall rules
- Creating Kubernetes clusters on GKE using Ansible
- Managing multi-cloud environments with consistent patterns
- Handling cloud provider API rate limiting and retries
- Generating infrastructure-as-code reports for compliance
- Integrating cost estimation into provisioning workflows
- Automating cloud resource decommissioning and cleanup
Module 8: Container and Kubernetes Automation - Managing Docker hosts and containers with Ansible
- Pulling, building, and pushing images using playbooks
- Configuring Docker Swarm clusters declaratively
- Deploying applications using Docker Compose templates
- Integrating with container registries including private ones
- Deploying Helm charts via Ansible in Kubernetes
- Creating namespaces, deployments, and services automatically
- Managing RBAC policies across Kubernetes clusters
- Scaling applications based on AI-driven traffic predictions
- Automating canary and blue-green deployments
- Handling rolling updates and rollback procedures
- Configuring persistent volumes and storage classes
- Monitoring pod health and triggering self-healing actions
- Exporting Kubernetes manifests from running clusters
- Validating Kubernetes configuration with Kubeval and Conftest
Module 9: Network Automation with Ansible - Automating Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and ASA configurations
- Managing Juniper Junos devices using NETCONF
- Configuring Arista EOS switches with eAPI
- Working with structured data formats like XML and JSON
- Generating configuration templates for network devices
- Performing configuration backups before changes
- Validating syntax and semantics with pre-change checks
- Using diff mode to preview configuration differences
- Implementing zero-downtime network updates
- Automating compliance checks against baseline standards
- Archiving configurations to version control systems
- Integrating with network monitoring tools like SolarWinds
- Handling device authentication and session timeouts
- Scaling network automation across thousands of devices
- Creating self-documenting network state reports
Module 10: Security and Compliance Automation - Enforcing CIS benchmarks using automated playbooks
- Hardening operating systems across Linux and Windows
- Automating firewall rule reviews and cleanup
- Managing user accounts and group memberships
- Enforcing password policies and expiration rules
- Monitoring for unauthorised configuration changes
- Integrating with vulnerability scanners like Nessus and Qualys
- Automating patch management across heterogeneous environments
- Generating compliance reports for auditors
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 control checks
- Handling privileged access in accordance with ISO 27001
- Automating certificate renewal and rotation processes
- Detecting and remediating misconfigurations in real time
- Creating audit trails for all security-related actions
- Integrating with SIEM platforms for event correlation
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability Automation - Automating deployment of Prometheus exporters
- Configuring Grafana dashboards using API calls
- Setting up alerting rules in Prometheus and Alertmanager
- Automatically generating monitoring configurations
- Integrating with Nagios, Zabbix, and Sensu
- Deploying distributed tracing systems like Jaeger
- Collecting logs with Fluentd and forwarding to ELK stack
- Creating structured logging standards across teams
- Automating incident creation in ticketing systems
- Linking monitoring data to AI-driven anomaly detection
- Predicting outages using time series forecasting models
- Automating root cause analysis with correlated metrics
- Generating performance baselines and deviation reports
- Automating capacity forecasting and scaling actions
- Sending executive-level operational summaries via email
Module 12: CI/CD Pipeline Automation - Integrating Ansible with Jenkins for deployment automation
- Using GitLab CI to trigger playbooks on merge requests
- Configuring GitHub Actions to run Ansible tests
- Validating infrastructure changes before production rollout
- Automating environment promotion workflows
- Running integration tests in ephemeral environments
- Destroying temporary environments after testing
- Measuring deployment success rate and rollback frequency
- Automating code quality gate checks
- Integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Generating deployment audit trails for compliance
- Scheduling off-hours maintenance windows automatically
- Notifying stakeholders of deployment status
- Creating custom pipeline metrics and dashboards
- Optimising pipeline execution time through parallelisation
Module 13: Real-World Automation Projects - Building a self-service server provisioning portal
- Automating onboarding of new employees with IT assets
- Creating a disaster recovery playbook for data centres
- Designing a multi-region failover automation system
- Automating quarterly financial reporting infrastructure
- Building a patch Tuesday automation scheduler for Windows
- Creating dynamic load balancer configuration updates
- Automating database schema migrations with rollback
- Implementing zero-touch network device onboarding
- Building AI-driven backup retention policies
- Creating compliance-as-code workflows for audits
- Automating development environment spin-up for Agile teams
- Scaling Kubernetes clusters based on AI predictions
- Automating certificate lifecycle management
- Building a security incident response automation runbook
Module 14: Enterprise Integration and Orchestration - Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
- Managing Docker hosts and containers with Ansible
- Pulling, building, and pushing images using playbooks
- Configuring Docker Swarm clusters declaratively
- Deploying applications using Docker Compose templates
- Integrating with container registries including private ones
- Deploying Helm charts via Ansible in Kubernetes
- Creating namespaces, deployments, and services automatically
- Managing RBAC policies across Kubernetes clusters
- Scaling applications based on AI-driven traffic predictions
- Automating canary and blue-green deployments
- Handling rolling updates and rollback procedures
- Configuring persistent volumes and storage classes
- Monitoring pod health and triggering self-healing actions
- Exporting Kubernetes manifests from running clusters
- Validating Kubernetes configuration with Kubeval and Conftest
Module 9: Network Automation with Ansible - Automating Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and ASA configurations
- Managing Juniper Junos devices using NETCONF
- Configuring Arista EOS switches with eAPI
- Working with structured data formats like XML and JSON
- Generating configuration templates for network devices
- Performing configuration backups before changes
- Validating syntax and semantics with pre-change checks
- Using diff mode to preview configuration differences
- Implementing zero-downtime network updates
- Automating compliance checks against baseline standards
- Archiving configurations to version control systems
- Integrating with network monitoring tools like SolarWinds
- Handling device authentication and session timeouts
- Scaling network automation across thousands of devices
- Creating self-documenting network state reports
Module 10: Security and Compliance Automation - Enforcing CIS benchmarks using automated playbooks
- Hardening operating systems across Linux and Windows
- Automating firewall rule reviews and cleanup
- Managing user accounts and group memberships
- Enforcing password policies and expiration rules
- Monitoring for unauthorised configuration changes
- Integrating with vulnerability scanners like Nessus and Qualys
- Automating patch management across heterogeneous environments
- Generating compliance reports for auditors
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 control checks
- Handling privileged access in accordance with ISO 27001
- Automating certificate renewal and rotation processes
- Detecting and remediating misconfigurations in real time
- Creating audit trails for all security-related actions
- Integrating with SIEM platforms for event correlation
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability Automation - Automating deployment of Prometheus exporters
- Configuring Grafana dashboards using API calls
- Setting up alerting rules in Prometheus and Alertmanager
- Automatically generating monitoring configurations
- Integrating with Nagios, Zabbix, and Sensu
- Deploying distributed tracing systems like Jaeger
- Collecting logs with Fluentd and forwarding to ELK stack
- Creating structured logging standards across teams
- Automating incident creation in ticketing systems
- Linking monitoring data to AI-driven anomaly detection
- Predicting outages using time series forecasting models
- Automating root cause analysis with correlated metrics
- Generating performance baselines and deviation reports
- Automating capacity forecasting and scaling actions
- Sending executive-level operational summaries via email
Module 12: CI/CD Pipeline Automation - Integrating Ansible with Jenkins for deployment automation
- Using GitLab CI to trigger playbooks on merge requests
- Configuring GitHub Actions to run Ansible tests
- Validating infrastructure changes before production rollout
- Automating environment promotion workflows
- Running integration tests in ephemeral environments
- Destroying temporary environments after testing
- Measuring deployment success rate and rollback frequency
- Automating code quality gate checks
- Integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Generating deployment audit trails for compliance
- Scheduling off-hours maintenance windows automatically
- Notifying stakeholders of deployment status
- Creating custom pipeline metrics and dashboards
- Optimising pipeline execution time through parallelisation
Module 13: Real-World Automation Projects - Building a self-service server provisioning portal
- Automating onboarding of new employees with IT assets
- Creating a disaster recovery playbook for data centres
- Designing a multi-region failover automation system
- Automating quarterly financial reporting infrastructure
- Building a patch Tuesday automation scheduler for Windows
- Creating dynamic load balancer configuration updates
- Automating database schema migrations with rollback
- Implementing zero-touch network device onboarding
- Building AI-driven backup retention policies
- Creating compliance-as-code workflows for audits
- Automating development environment spin-up for Agile teams
- Scaling Kubernetes clusters based on AI predictions
- Automating certificate lifecycle management
- Building a security incident response automation runbook
Module 14: Enterprise Integration and Orchestration - Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
- Enforcing CIS benchmarks using automated playbooks
- Hardening operating systems across Linux and Windows
- Automating firewall rule reviews and cleanup
- Managing user accounts and group memberships
- Enforcing password policies and expiration rules
- Monitoring for unauthorised configuration changes
- Integrating with vulnerability scanners like Nessus and Qualys
- Automating patch management across heterogeneous environments
- Generating compliance reports for auditors
- Automating GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 control checks
- Handling privileged access in accordance with ISO 27001
- Automating certificate renewal and rotation processes
- Detecting and remediating misconfigurations in real time
- Creating audit trails for all security-related actions
- Integrating with SIEM platforms for event correlation
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability Automation - Automating deployment of Prometheus exporters
- Configuring Grafana dashboards using API calls
- Setting up alerting rules in Prometheus and Alertmanager
- Automatically generating monitoring configurations
- Integrating with Nagios, Zabbix, and Sensu
- Deploying distributed tracing systems like Jaeger
- Collecting logs with Fluentd and forwarding to ELK stack
- Creating structured logging standards across teams
- Automating incident creation in ticketing systems
- Linking monitoring data to AI-driven anomaly detection
- Predicting outages using time series forecasting models
- Automating root cause analysis with correlated metrics
- Generating performance baselines and deviation reports
- Automating capacity forecasting and scaling actions
- Sending executive-level operational summaries via email
Module 12: CI/CD Pipeline Automation - Integrating Ansible with Jenkins for deployment automation
- Using GitLab CI to trigger playbooks on merge requests
- Configuring GitHub Actions to run Ansible tests
- Validating infrastructure changes before production rollout
- Automating environment promotion workflows
- Running integration tests in ephemeral environments
- Destroying temporary environments after testing
- Measuring deployment success rate and rollback frequency
- Automating code quality gate checks
- Integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Generating deployment audit trails for compliance
- Scheduling off-hours maintenance windows automatically
- Notifying stakeholders of deployment status
- Creating custom pipeline metrics and dashboards
- Optimising pipeline execution time through parallelisation
Module 13: Real-World Automation Projects - Building a self-service server provisioning portal
- Automating onboarding of new employees with IT assets
- Creating a disaster recovery playbook for data centres
- Designing a multi-region failover automation system
- Automating quarterly financial reporting infrastructure
- Building a patch Tuesday automation scheduler for Windows
- Creating dynamic load balancer configuration updates
- Automating database schema migrations with rollback
- Implementing zero-touch network device onboarding
- Building AI-driven backup retention policies
- Creating compliance-as-code workflows for audits
- Automating development environment spin-up for Agile teams
- Scaling Kubernetes clusters based on AI predictions
- Automating certificate lifecycle management
- Building a security incident response automation runbook
Module 14: Enterprise Integration and Orchestration - Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
- Integrating Ansible with Jenkins for deployment automation
- Using GitLab CI to trigger playbooks on merge requests
- Configuring GitHub Actions to run Ansible tests
- Validating infrastructure changes before production rollout
- Automating environment promotion workflows
- Running integration tests in ephemeral environments
- Destroying temporary environments after testing
- Measuring deployment success rate and rollback frequency
- Automating code quality gate checks
- Integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Generating deployment audit trails for compliance
- Scheduling off-hours maintenance windows automatically
- Notifying stakeholders of deployment status
- Creating custom pipeline metrics and dashboards
- Optimising pipeline execution time through parallelisation
Module 13: Real-World Automation Projects - Building a self-service server provisioning portal
- Automating onboarding of new employees with IT assets
- Creating a disaster recovery playbook for data centres
- Designing a multi-region failover automation system
- Automating quarterly financial reporting infrastructure
- Building a patch Tuesday automation scheduler for Windows
- Creating dynamic load balancer configuration updates
- Automating database schema migrations with rollback
- Implementing zero-touch network device onboarding
- Building AI-driven backup retention policies
- Creating compliance-as-code workflows for audits
- Automating development environment spin-up for Agile teams
- Scaling Kubernetes clusters based on AI predictions
- Automating certificate lifecycle management
- Building a security incident response automation runbook
Module 14: Enterprise Integration and Orchestration - Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
- Integrating Ansible with ServiceNow for IT service delivery
- Automating ticket creation and resolution in Jira
- Connecting with Active Directory for identity management
- Synchronising configurations with CMDB systems
- Feeding automation data into Power BI and Tableau
- Orchestrating workflows across multiple tools and platforms
- Using Ansible Tower or AWX for centralised control
- Managing job scheduling and resource constraints
- Creating custom dashboards for automation health
- Implementing role-based access control in AWX
- Integrating with LDAP and SSO providers
- Configuring notification systems for job status
- Setting up high availability for Ansible control nodes
- Backups and disaster recovery for automation infrastructure
- Scaling Ansible execution across distributed workers
Module 15: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Analysing playbook execution time and bottlenecks
- Optimising SSH connection reuse and pipelining
- Adjusting fork count for maximum throughput
- Using fact caching to reduce repetitive queries
- Minimising network round trips with batch operations
- Parallelising independent tasks across hosts
- Using async mode for long-running operations
- Implementing health checks before task execution
- Skip unnecessary tasks using when conditions
- Reducing playbook complexity with abstraction layers
- Profiling memory and CPU usage during execution
- Tuning Python execution environment for performance
- Benchmarking automation workflows for SLA compliance
- Scaling to manage tens of thousands of nodes
- Monitoring automation system health proactively
Module 16: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates
- Review of key concepts for enterprise automation mastery
- Practice scenarios for real-world problem solving
- Building a professional portfolio of automation projects
- Documenting achievements for resume and LinkedIn
- Preparing for technical interviews in DevOps roles
- Communicating automation ROI to non-technical stakeholders
- Negotiating salary increases based on new skills
- Transitioning from manual operations to automation leadership
- Earning the Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Understanding certification validity and verification process
- Sharing credentials securely with employers and recruiters
- Joining the global alumni network of automation professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and career resources
- Continuing education pathways in advanced automation
- Staying ahead of market trends with future updates