Ansible Automation for Hybrid Footprints

Idempotent playbooks, inventory hygiene, and handoffs to CI when cron-on-a-VM is no longer cute.

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We target a mixed estate story common in Thailand: a few VMs, some cloud instances, and a desire to stop snowflake SSH sessions. You practice small playbooks with explicit test harnesses.

What the syllabus includes

  • Inventory sourcing patterns (static + cloud plugin overview)
  • Role boundaries that survive team growth
  • Molecule-style testing mindset without vendor lock
  • Handoff checklist from playbook to pipeline job
  • Vault concepts without storing real secrets in class
  • Performance footguns (forks, facts caching)
  • Mentor review of a playbook refactor

Artifacts you leave with

  • Deliver three playbooks with explicit idempotency checks
  • Draft inventory hygiene rules your ops chat can adopt
  • Document a CI handoff for one repetitive task

Lead mentor

Chakrit Pong — Hybrid infra consultant; Ansible user since 1.x.

Duration: 5 weeks · evenings · Format: cohort · Category: applied labs · Level: beginner

Price (informational): 7,200 THB — see Money-Back Policy for eligibility notes.

FAQ

Linux-first labs; Windows winrm mentioned in appendix only.

Participant notes

Ansible Automation for Hybrid Footprints inventory hygiene rules stopped our “temporary” CSV from becoming permanent.

— Lin