Ansible for the DevOps Beginners & System Admins (Udemy.com)
Ansible for the Beginners course for DevOps Engineers and System Admins helps you to enhance skills towards Ansible.
Created by: AR Shankar
Last updated July 2026
What you will learn
- Able to write ansible playbooks and roles
- Automate regular system administration tasks
How it compares
Against the other 219 rated Udemy courses in DevOps on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 91% of them
- Reviews2,974#59 of 220 by number of reviews
- Length4.8 hoursshorter than 53% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2026more recently than 89% of them
Course Description
Are you just started working on your DevOps career? or are you a typical system administrator who doesn't know how to automate tasks? Then this course is for you.
Ansible for DevOps Beginners and System Admins course helps you to understand how Ansible works and automate your day-to-day activities. We have discussed various topics like ad-hoc commands, playbooks, variables, inventory, and roles with detailed examples.
I am sure that you will be able to automate your regular tasks using Ansible after the completion of this course.
I will continue to enhance this course according to the feedback and reviews.
What are you waiting for? Join me to learn Ansible now!
in this course, we have covered
what is ansible
why do we need ansible
how ansible works
how to prepare an ansible system on AWS
installing ansible on EC2 instance
setup and RHEL as an ansible managed node
Ansible Ad-hoc commands
Ansible Inventory
Ansible configuration file - ansible.cfg
Ansible modules
create your 1st ansible-playbook
setup additional managed nodes
run a ansible playbook
Yum module to install packages
file module to create or remove a file
copy module to copy a file
Install apache on Rhel
install apache on ubuntu
notify and handlers in a playbook
how to gather facts works
how when condition works
uninstall apache using when the condition
adding copy task to apache playbook
ansible variables
convert shell commands into ansible-playbook
using tags in a playbook
error handling in the ansible playbook
ansible vault introduction
using ansible vault with git
ansible roles
convert a playbook into a role
push your playbooks onto GitHub
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
2,974 Reviews
AR Shankar
I am a dedicated DevOps Consultant with a strong specialization in AWS and DevOps practices. Over the past seven years, I've had the privilege of providing training to numerous students, helping them navigate the complexities of this field. My experience spans across various cutting-edge technologies, and I'm committed to constantly enhancing my skills to align with the ever-evolving landscape of IT.
What truly drives me is my passion for continuous learning and teaching. I invest significant time in thorough research when developing course content, always striving to build a solid foundation for my students by starting from the basics. My goal is to empower individuals with the knowledge they need to excel in the dynamic world of DevOps and AWS technology.
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Reviews
By Marimuthu Nainar on 5/21/2025
I want to genuinely thank the instructor for delivering such a clear and effective Ansible training. To be honest, I really learned a lot throughout the course. The explanations were practical, well-structured, and easy to follow.
By Dharmesh Kumar on 11/28/2023
This Ansible course is a gem! Clear, concise, and packed with hands-on exercises, it demystifies automation. The engaging teaching style, coupled with real-world examples, makes complex concepts accessible. The course structure is seamless, ensuring a smooth learning curve. An absolute must for anyone diving into Ansible.
By Scott Warner on 9/22/2023
This was a terrific hands-on course that allowed me to learn about Ansible from setup to writing playbooks. I like how it follows a crawl-walk-run format with fundamentals immediately and then builds complexity. I also like the setup of ec2 resources in amazon web services with the different varieties of linux.
By 仁 小澤 on 1/3/2023
Other ansible courses were mostly about teaching features and syntax without too much practical usage. This is the only course that I've taken that taught me how I could use ansible in actual situation. For example, other courses I've took talked about and gave example on how to encrypt password with ansible-vault. This is the only course that taught me to use vars_files to read encrypted vault file into a playbook. Same with explanation on roles, error handling, tags, notify, and facts. The other courses taught me about facts but this was the first course that showed me how to use gathered facts to write a single script to install and setup on centos and ubuntu. The only fault I had was that my system is all on vmware and not on aws. That is, sections on aws were unnecessary for me.
By Neelabh Singh on 11/16/2022
Good Course content starting from basics of ansible and then covered creating playbooks in very detailed way. Labs are easy to follow, most of the course is lab based so its very engaging. Few things that can be updated : 1. Deprecation warning for Python is coming 2. Ansible.cfg file is now removed form the location mentioned in the latest ansible release 3. Git/Github authentication from PAT instead of password etc. Overall very good course for learning ansible for DevOps Engineers.
By Anonymized User on 12/9/2020
Hello, Shankar! I am new to the DevOps course, but I really felt very happy after going through your Ansible course. Now, I am more confident in performing automation tasks using playbooks. Really, thanks for the great course. This course would help everyone to understand and better knowledge of Ansible.
By Aman Chourasia on 11/8/2020
Yes! Very nice explained till now
By Sravan.Nanduri@Edgeverve.Com on 10/27/2020
Very good
By Ashok Anand R on 10/20/2020
Very Informative and easy to understand.
Thank you so much.
By Sharad Gad on 10/16/2020
Excellent course for beginners. Simple and very effective. Thank you!!
By Hemant Gorantla on 10/12/2020
good explanation
By Ajeet Dadhich on 9/25/2020
Good Training
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Overall Score : 94 / 100










