Advance Automation: Playbooks, Roles & Workflow Automation

Step into the next level of IT automation with Playbooks, Roles, and Workflow Automation — an intermediate course designed to help you scale Ansible automation with cleaner, reusable, and enterprise-ready workflows. Whether you’re a system administrator managing complex infrastructures or a DevOps professional streamlining deployments, this course takes you beyond the basics to build automation that is reliable, structured, and production-ready. Through practical examples, guided videos, and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to design and manage Ansible playbooks, implement roles, work with variables and templates, and manage multi-environment workflows. This course emphasizes real-world problem-solving to help you automate at scale with confidence and precision. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Write and manage Ansible playbooks with tasks, handlers, and modular scripts. - Implement variables, templates, conditionals, and loops to create dynamic automation. - Organize automation using roles and manage environments with inventories. - Apply best practices for building scalable, maintainable, and idempotent workflows. This course is ideal for: - System administrators and IT engineers managing medium-to-large-scale infrastructures. - DevOps professionals looking to build reusable, team-friendly automation frameworks. - Cloud and infrastructure engineers deploying services across multiple environments. - Learners who have completed Foundations of Ansible Automation and want to deepen their expertise. Note: This is Course 2 of the specialization series. Basic knowledge of Ansible playbooks is recommended from Course 1, but no advanced experience is required. Disclaimer: This course is an independent educational resource developed by Board Infinity and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially associated with International Business Machines Corporation or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. This course is not an official preparation material of International Business Machines Corporation. All trademarks, service marks, and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only

• Write and manage Ansible playbooks with tasks, handlers, and modular scripts
• Implement variables, templates, conditionals, and loops to create dynamic automation
• Organize automation using roles and manage environments with inventories
• Apply best practices for building scalable, maintainable, and idempotent workflows

• Basic familiarity with the topic and its common terminology
• Readiness to practice through applied exercises or case-based work