Ansible Basics & Installing WordPress on LAMP with Playbooks

Overview

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This guided-project introduces you to Ansible automation and configuration management, provisioning, deploying, and managing compute infrastructure with Ansible. By the end of this project, you will be able to set up, develop, and use Ansible to configure and automate your environment. In addition, you will learn to install WordPress on LAMP with Playbooks. This exercise will allow you to understand how to write, customize and apply Ansible Playbooks for automating and orchestrating software stacks.

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This is the most comprehensive project-based Ansible course that introduces you to the most important Ansible topics. By the end of this project, you will have packaged, built, and deployed a web based Mario game & a Wordpress CMS using Ansible Playbooks. Along the way, you will also learn the essential concepts and commands about Ansible configuration management tool. Apart from demystifying the Ansible landscape, this will prepare you with hands-on experience for using Ansible to deploy tasks simultaneously on hundreds of servers.