Level 3 · Ph.D
Ph.D Advanced Ansible Automation & Security
Automation · Live · v0
- Path type
- Automation
- Requirements
- MSc Advanced Ansible Automation & Security
- Enrollment
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€19.95
- Deadline
- Next cohort starts 2027-09-06 (AY 2027/28)
- Length
- +1 year · 56 phases
- Language
- English · Español
- Content freshness
- Curriculum updated 2026-08-22 · content rev 760a503b
- Cortex Credits (CC)
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280 CC
· 421 CC across all tiers of this programme
What are Cortex Credits? - Syllabus
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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
- Config-as-code, installers & integration
- Ansible Vault crypto internals
- Vault attack & defense (detection-first)
- Controller credential encryption
- External secrets & FIPS
- Supply-chain security & signing
- The vuln-class taxonomy & PSIRT triage
- Template injection / SSTI
- Secret & no_log leakage
- Insecure temp, path traversal & argument injection
- Privesc, isolation escape & deserialization
- Platform authz, SSRF, EDA & mesh
- Capstone: from CVE to advisory to patch
- Closer & bridge to the postdoc
- Enrolment prerequisites
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- A verified account and admissions-committee approval.
- Completion of MSc Advanced Ansible Automation & Security.
Professor: Vacancy available
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