Getting Started with Ansible: Automation Made Easy (Udemy.com)
Learning Ansible has Never Been Simpler!
Created by: Jay LaCroix
Last updated January 2025
What you will learn
- Running ad-hoc Commands
- Writing Ansible Playbooks
- Creating Roles and Templates
- System Automation
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 86% of them
- Reviews716#486 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length4.3 hoursshorter than 58% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2025earlier than 56% of them
Course Description
With our ever-evolving landscape, System Administration has never been more complicated. With some organizations having hundreds (or even thousands) of servers to manage, IT personnel definitely have their work cut out for them! Automation is the answer, and with this course you’ll learn the most powerful automation tool available: Ansible!
With this 20 episode course as your guide, you’ll learn all the core concepts – including writing playbooks, creating roles, refactoring and consolidating plays, encrypting and decrypting files, dealing with mixed environments and more!Best of all, you’ll be learning Ansible from an industry professional with over two decades of experience, which includes working knowledge of Ansible and its best practices.
Getting Started with Ansible: Automation Made Easy is taught by an industry-leader with over two decades of experience. Jay a Linux Expert, Published Author, and Video Producer that has taught millions of students through his company (Learn Linux TV) and now he's bringing that experience to Udemy.
Each lesson is presented with cutting edge editing and video production, with careful attention to detail. Experience educational content that not only looks stunning, but will teach you want you want to learn without putting you to sleep. With simple, straight-forward explanations - even the most challenging concept will seem straight forward.
Check out Learn Linux TV’s Ansible course, and start automating today!
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
716 Reviews
Jay LaCroix
Jay is a passionate technologist and enjoys working on just about any form of technology he can get his hands on, and spends his free time tinkering with network/server hardware, virtualization, Raspberry Pi’s, writing scripts, and more. Of all the technology he works with, Jay is the most passionate about Linux and its community.
With over two decades of experience supporting Linux professionally, Jay started Learn Linux TV – an education company that focuses on teaching concepts that surround Linux and related technologies. As part of this company, Jay writes Linux-related books and produces training content that teaches important concepts from an experienced and hands-on perspective. The YouTube channel of the same name now has over 600,000 subscribers and well over 40 million views.
Outside of Linux, Jay enjoys collecting classic video games.
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Reviews
By Matthew John Hajsiuk on 8/21/2026
Very clear and engaging. Only one complaint and its only just for this. I had to keep pausing the video so the builds could catch up. Not a huge issue and better than having the video go for as long as it takes to install an OS. But its just a little too fast paced and that comes from someone who normally watches udemy at least 1.5 x video playback. Its only a fraction too fast for me personally. If all the theory is like this i will be very happy not the actual doing part.
By Alex Strickland on 1/17/2026
The instructor is explaining each concept clearly and precise. Following along with each example is very rewarding after struggling to learn Ansible from other resources. Received a few errors but the Q&A section had a resolution to clear the error.
By Henry Cerro on 1/16/2026
Good so far! I have some experience with Ansible - self-taught - and want to widen my knowledge. Also, I'm going to be using some AWS EC2 instances, but it's interesting to see how other virtual machines can be built.
By Lincoln Gaudreau on 12/8/2025
Some items felt skipped. For example, the 'keeping secrets' module did not teach us how to use the secrets in our playbooks or roles. There are also a lot of ways Inventories can be organized; it would be good if that could have been discussed early in the course. Overall great content and enjoyable to follow along!
By Igor Kováč on 10/14/2025
Finally a great course for a Linux engineer, who wants to start with ansible. I like your teaching style a lot, pls. do a complete training "Semaphore + Ansible + Proxmox." It will be a great success. I'm sure you've heard yourself that Proxmox is replacing Broadcom products by large scale, because of what Broadcom is becoming with it's recent shift in business model, and it would be a great value to us all to get a course how to combine these 3 together. Thanks and have a good one !
By Timothy Cowles on 9/30/2025
I knew absolutely nothing about Ansible!!! After this course I have more than enough information to be able to create playbooks and a lot of other things. Thank you for all your time - I thought that this course was one of the best I have taken so far on Udemy and worth the $$$ 4 sure.
By George Zahari on 7/29/2025
I really enjoyed this Ansible course! The lessons build on each other very well, and everything is explained clearly. It’s fun to follow and easy to stay motivated. I only had one issue with the dnf module on my Fedora server, but using "use_backend: dnf4" as a workaround solved it perfectly. Overall, a great and well-structured course – highly recommended!
By Semavi Terzi on 3/20/2025
great intro course. though if you could provide the yml files as course resources that would be more convenient. i made some types in yml files while typing them out in nano. another ansible course managing windows servers would also be awesome.
By Raymond sutton on 8/28/2024
Good course except for video 16 which has some serious issues. The course was a little too basic for me as I'd played with Ansible some before starting but I still learn new stuff. I picked the course up during a sale and it was worth what I paid for it; IN MY SPECIFIC SITUATION, with some prior exposure to Ansible it would not have been worth the full price but I would recommend it for a complete beginner who need to get started with Ansible
By Eter on 8/19/2024
Excellent course, Jay manages to explain in a calm and didactic way. In some classes, there are some skipped steps, especially at the end of the course, but if you have some basic knowledge of Linux and read the Ansible error messages carefully, you will be able to finish it without any problem. It is a very good course to introduce this tool and the infinite possibilities it can offer. Thanks Jay, keep going.
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Overall Score : 94 / 100






