## What You Will Learn

Ansible is capable of handling many powerful automation tasks with the flexibility to adapt to many environments and workflows. With Ansible, users can very quickly get up and running to do real work.

- What is Ansible? / "The Ansible Way"
- How Ansible Works and its Key Components
- Automating with Ad-Hoc Commands
- Writing Playbooks / Playbook Basics
- Reuse and Redistribution of Ansible Content with Roles

This deck is designed to provide students with direct introductory instruction and guidance to beginning to automate with Ansible. It is the starting point for students intent on becoming more proficient with Ansible through other Lightbulb modules and their own usage.

This deck supports lecture and hands-on forms of presenting this material.

Allow 2 hours to deliver the lecture-based form and 4 hours for stopping to do the workshop assignments. To access the additional slides for delivering the workshops, navigate down when available.

See the Ansible Lightbulb facilitator’s guide for more details on using this deck and it’s associated material.