MSc Advanced Ansible Automation & Security

Automation · Live · v0

Path type: Automation
Requirements: MSc Ansible Automation & Security
Enrollment: €19.95
Deadline: Next cohort starts 2027-09-06 (AY 2027/28)
Length: ~1 year · 42 phases
Language: English · Español
Content freshness: Curriculum updated 2026-08-22 · content rev 760a503b
Cortex Credits (CC): 126 CC · 421 CC across all tiers of this programme
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Syllabus: View the phase syllabus

From operator to engineer

Build ansible-core from source

The execution-flow spine

The contribution workflow

AnsiballZ & the module transport model

Task executor & action plugins

Strategy plugins

Connection plugin internals

Become internals

Variable manager & precedence internals

Templating internals & the unsafe-proxy

Callbacks & fact caching

Collection loader & resolvelib

OpenSSH transport deep

Pipelining & performance

paramiko & alternative SSH

Windows: winrm & psrp

Network automation transports

Container/local connections & transport hardening

Module development

Writing plugins I

Writing plugins II

ansible-test

Collection engineering

argument_specs, docs & doc_fragments

Content signing

The dev-tools bundle

Molecule deep

ansible-lint deep

ansible-builder & EEs deep

ansible-runner

Logging & reporting

CI/CD & the build-ship view

Automation Controller internals

Platform Gateway, DAB & JWT

RBAC deep

Credentials & credential types

Automation mesh & Receptor

Execution Environments in Controller

Private Automation Hub

Event-Driven Ansible

Lightspeed & AI authoring

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Enrolment prerequisites: A verified account and admissions-committee approval.

Professor: Vacancy available