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Mastering Ansible (Udemy.com)

A complete guide to configuration management and orchestration with Ansible.

4.5
10,233 reviews

Created by: Chris Lunsford

Last updated December 2015

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What you will learn

  • Execute ad-hoc commands against servers using Ansible
  • Write Ansible configuration playbooks to deploy a 3-tier web application
  • Configure Ansible roles with tasks, handlers, files, templates, and default variables
  • Write operational playbooks to check cluster status and perform a cluster restart.
  • Optimize Ansible playbooks to reduce playbook execution time.
  • Test and troubleshoot Ansible playbook execution.

How it compares

Against the other 219 rated Udemy courses in DevOps on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 55% of them
  • Reviews10,233#28 of 220 by number of reviews
  • Length4.8 hoursshorter than 53% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2015earlier than 99% of them

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Course Description

Mastering Ansible is a step-by-step journey of learning Ansible for configuration management and orchestration.

The course is designed as a journey through configuring a realistic application stack from the ground up. Instead of going page-by-page through the Ansible documentation, topics are ordered to align with the growing complexity of our application as we build it up and refactor it.

In addition to the core concepts of configuration with Ansible, we spend time on building tools to help us maintain and troubleshoot our application. The goal is to have a workflow where all of the configuration and troubleshooting is done through ansible playbooks that can be committed to a repository and improved over time.

The course is divided into 6 sections, starting with initial installation and foundational concepts. Starting in section 3, we build up a sample application environment layer-by-layer, learning a new concept in each lecture. After the application is up and running, we refactor our setup in section 4 with an emphasis on modularity and encapsulation. In section 5, we optimize our code and learn about techniques to reduce the playbook execution time. The course finishes with a final section on troubleshooting and testing.

For each lecture, we introduce a new Ansible concept and apply it to our playbooks. For most lectures, we execute the new concept in the demo environment so you can see what the output should look like. In the notes of each lecture, you'll find a link to the relevant documentation pages, along with a snapshot of the codebase at the end of that lecture.

This course was built with Ansible version 1.9.3, applied to a 3-tiered web application environment leveraging NGINX, Apache2, Python, and MySQL on Ubuntu Linux servers. We do not cover administering Windows servers in this course.

This course is designed as an introduction to Ansible, but also as a guide for engineers interested in configuration management, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and devops principles.
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Instructor Details

Chris Lunsford

I am an IT professional with a decade of experience in network, datacenter, cloud and systems operations. My expertise is in applying software development practices to infrastructure operations.

In the early days of my IT career, I worked at a large networking company administering devices to support Service Providers in the US and Canada. After several years of doing test and validation for SP Core Networks, I worked a project on a recently announced Data Center compute product and got hooked on Data Center technology. I moved on to support Data Center Solutions and became an expert on the full Data Center stack: firewalls, load-balancers, compute, network, storage, and virtualization. The balance of my time at the company was spent building out a major hosted cloud effort based on OpenStack, integrating principles and tools from the emerging DevOps movement.

I left corporate life to co-found a small software company, focused on reducing the pain of being an operations engineer in Cloud and Data Center environments. I teach on Udemy to help transfer my own lessons learned to others who are faced with managing complex server and network environments, and to explore ways to integrate software practice and lean methodologies with IT operations.

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By Matthew OConnell on 5/26/2026

The problem is that the course has not been updated since 2015. The lab work is being done on Ubuntu 14.04. I feel that something that was updated more recently would be more relevant.

By Anonymized User on 12/30/2025

Course video is too fast to grab , would appreciate bit slow with clear explanation , however contents of ansible is well designed to cover complete course

By Roman Grazhdan on 9/22/2025

What I liked about this course is that it also teaches you to think like Operations. It's not always compatible with the latest version of Ansible and it was not designed to be very interactive _but_ those problems cancel each other out: if you spend some time fixing the issues, you'll end up having a better understanding. One other way to make this course more hands-on is to write (or to get an LLM write for you) a Terraform configuration for your lab and make the Ansible setup compatible with it (so that it survives the create/tear down/create cycle). It'll give you better understanding of variables and templates. I'll check what else this author has, I liked the structure of the course and his way of thinking.

By Geoffrey Shelton Okot on 5/18/2023

Great stuff despite some -ve feedback. I honestly think it's a great start to building automation skills on, all the projects I joined the playbooks were already written and it was just mechanical execution now I can debug and understand the contents and all the great stuff you share would have loved to link up on linkedIn Geoffrey

By Francisco jose da Silva on 11/22/2020

otimo

By Uppara on 11/15/2020

Language can be more clear. Voice can be more audible and interesting otherwise very good.

By Catalin DUMITRASCU on 11/15/2020

This course seems to me a hands-on activity. It is a bit different than a didactical approach I've seen earlier in other courses. It is however an exquisite demonstration of effective use for Ansible. Thank you !

By Monisha on 11/8/2020

To get an idea as a professional in Devops, this course is very helpful

By Ashwin Pednekar on 10/25/2020

Nice Flow maintained by trainer , with good examples

By Andy Wilson on 10/22/2020

yes, good so far, not enough on networking

By Bence Gbor Koczka on 10/17/2020

Instructive and bite sized.

By Bhanu p on 10/16/2020

good one for beginners

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