• 5 days

• Lecture & Labs

Upon the completion of the course, students are able to earn a certificate by writing a playbook that automates a Dell Storage product with Ansible.

This course offers a flexible (customizable) overview of using Ansible to automate the suite of Dell storage products including PowerMax, Isilon/PowerScale and PowerStore. Examples highlight Ansible’s latest current release capabilities, building complex playbooks, and developing workflow strategies all while observing best-practice techniques.

Students will be encouraged to share with the class the manual ways they are currently doing work in an effort to create highly applicable Ansible solutions. Through these demonstrations, students will learn how to use code to extend structure and consistency to their specific job operations. Although this course focuses on Dell Storage solutions, Ansible is a Swiss-Army knife of abstracted automation. Every lesson is highly applicable beyond “just” the Dell storage suite.

• Ansible for Storage Strategies

• Ansible and Dell PowerMax

• Ansible and Dell Isilon / PowerScale

• Ansible and Dell PowerStore

• Ansible and Dell PowerFlex (VxFlex OS)

• Ansible and Pure Storage

• Ansible for NetApp Storage

• Writing and Executing Ansible Playbooks

• Developing Roles with Molecule

• Installing and creating Collections for content delivery

• Using Ansible to target Linux, Windows, Clouds, Network Devices and REST APIs

• Ansible and AWX / Tower for Orchestration

• Ansible and Jenkins for Orchestration

• AI LLM prompt engineering for generating jumpstart solutions