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Level 2 · M.Sc

Ansible Automation & Security

Syllabus · 42 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 Foundations & lab hygiene
Phase 1 Install & the two Ansibles
Phase 2 The Cortex Estate lab range
Phase 3 Inventory basics
Phase 4 Ad-hoc commands & the module idea
Phase 5 Idempotency & module semantics
Phase 6 Configuration & the environment
Phase 7 First playbook
Phase 8 Modules in depth
Phase 9 Handlers
Phase 10 Loops & conditionals
Phase 11 Blocks, error handling & tags
Phase 12 register & set_fact
Phase 13 Variable precedence
Phase 14 Jinja2 templating
Phase 15 Facts & caching
Phase 16 Magic vars & data
Phase 17 Roles anatomy
Phase 18 import vs include & role dependencies
Phase 19 Role interfaces
Phase 20 Galaxy roles & requirements
Phase 21 Project structure
Phase 22 Dynamic inventory
Phase 23 Constructed inventory & patterns
Phase 24 Parallelism & rolling updates
Phase 25 Delegation
Phase 26 Async & long-running tasks
Phase 27 Ansible Vault
Phase 28 Secrets hygiene
Phase 29 Connection & become intro
Phase 30 Network segmentation on the estate
Phase 31 Collections & FQCN
Phase 32 Galaxy vs Automation Hub
Phase 33 Linting & style
Phase 34 ansible-navigator & EEs (intro)
Phase 35 Molecule (intro)
Phase 36 AAP awareness: AWX hands-on
Phase 37 Playbook architecture & good practices
Phase 38 Intro security & hardening
Phase 39 Capstone
Phase 40 Postmortem, good practice & the versioning chapter
Phase 41 Portal integration & bridge to the PhD