🚀 Nkechi Ahanonye — Cloud & DevOps Engineer | Zero to Production: 15 Modules, Real Output, No Fluff
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Master Ansible
From Zero to Production
"I built this guide because beginners deserve better than scattered tutorials."
15 hands-on modules. Real playbooks. Actual terminal output. No fluff.
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What makes this different?
Every module shows you exactly what to expect — real terminal output, not just code blocks. You see what success looks like before you run a single command.
Module 01
Introduction
What Ansible is, why it exists, and how it thinks differently.
Module 02
Installation
Get Ansible running on Linux, Mac, Windows WSL.
Module 03
Ad-hoc Commands
Run one-liners before writing playbooks.
Module 04
Inventory
Tell Ansible which servers to talk to.
Module 05
First Playbook
Write your first YAML playbook.
Module 06
Variables
Define, scope, and override variables.
Module 07
Handlers
Restart services only when changed.
Module 08
Roles
Reusable, shareable role structures.
Module 09
Templates & Jinja2
Dynamic config files with Jinja2.
Module 10
Conditionals & Loops
Control execution with when and loop.
Module 11
Vault
Encrypt secrets AES-256.
Module 12
Error Handling
Rescue broken tasks gracefully.
Module 13
Dynamic Inventory
Live hosts from AWS, GCP, Azure.
Module 14
Collections
Galaxy collections management.
Module 15 — FINAL
Capstone Project
Full production infra from scratch.
What you will see in every module
$ ansible-playbook site.yml -i inventory/hosts
PLAY [web servers] *********************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************** ok: [web01] ok: [web02]
TASK [Install nginx] ******************************************* changed: [web01] changed: [web02]
PLAY RECAP *****************************************************
web01 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
web02 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
PLAY [web servers] *********************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************** ok: [web01] ok: [web02]
TASK [Install nginx] ******************************************* changed: [web01] changed: [web02]
PLAY RECAP *****************************************************
web01 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
web02 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
About the author
Nkechi Ahanonye — Cloud & DevOps Engineer | I turn manual, 3 AM-breaking deployments into 1-min automated pipelines with AWS + Ansible + Terraform
DevOps practitioner passionate about making complex engineering accessible. This guide is part of the trilogy: Practical (17 Green Runs) → Guide → Lab