Level 3 · Ph.D

Advanced Ansible Automation & Security

Ph.D syllabus · 56 phases · +1 year

Every unit this programme teaches, in the order it is taught. Headlines only — the material itself opens once you are enrolled.

Dates, price and prerequisites

Phase 0 From operator to engineer
Phase 1 Build ansible-core from source
Phase 2 The execution-flow spine
Phase 3 The contribution workflow
Phase 4 AnsiballZ & the module transport model
Phase 5 Task executor & action plugins
Phase 6 Strategy plugins
Phase 7 Connection plugin internals
Phase 8 Become internals
Phase 9 Variable manager & precedence internals
Phase 10 Templating internals & the unsafe-proxy
Phase 11 Callbacks & fact caching
Phase 12 Collection loader & resolvelib
Phase 13 OpenSSH transport deep
Phase 14 Pipelining & performance
Phase 15 paramiko & alternative SSH
Phase 16 Windows: winrm & psrp
Phase 17 Network automation transports
Phase 18 Container/local connections & transport hardening
Phase 19 Module development
Phase 20 Writing plugins I
Phase 21 Writing plugins II
Phase 22 ansible-test
Phase 23 Collection engineering
Phase 24 argument_specs, docs & doc_fragments
Phase 25 Content signing
Phase 26 The dev-tools bundle
Phase 27 Molecule deep
Phase 28 ansible-lint deep
Phase 29 ansible-builder & EEs deep
Phase 30 ansible-runner
Phase 31 Logging & reporting
Phase 32 CI/CD & the build-ship view
Phase 33 Automation Controller internals
Phase 34 Platform Gateway, DAB & JWT
Phase 35 RBAC deep
Phase 36 Credentials & credential types
Phase 37 Automation mesh & Receptor
Phase 38 Execution Environments in Controller
Phase 39 Private Automation Hub
Phase 40 Event-Driven Ansible
Phase 41 Lightspeed & AI authoring
Phase 42 Config-as-code, installers & integration
Phase 43 Ansible Vault crypto internals
Phase 44 Vault attack & defense (detection-first)
Phase 45 Controller credential encryption
Phase 46 External secrets & FIPS
Phase 47 Supply-chain security & signing
Phase 48 The vuln-class taxonomy & PSIRT triage
Phase 49 Template injection / SSTI
Phase 50 Secret & no_log leakage
Phase 51 Insecure temp, path traversal & argument injection
Phase 52 Privesc, isolation escape & deserialization
Phase 53 Platform authz, SSRF, EDA & mesh
Phase 54 Capstone: from CVE to advisory to patch
Phase 55 Closer & bridge to the postdoc