Hands-on Ansible and Ascender for Linux Administrators

August 20, 2025

This instructor-led virtual workshop is intended for people who want to learn the basics of Ansible Automation including CIQ’s Ascender to automate Linux environments. This hands-on workshop details utilizing Linux modules with Ansible Playbooks, authoring playbooks using Visual Studio Code, commit and push playbooks to a git repository and then later automate them with Ascender. This is a live workshop and will not be recorded.

Who Can Benefit?

This workshop is geared toward Linux administrators, cloud administrators, DevOps engineers, security professionals, and anyone interested in automation.

Ascender Workshop
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Requirements for attendees

Attendees must have a computer with the ability to browse to a lab environment hosted in a public cloud.


Some basic Linux system experience is helpful, but not required.

This Webinar Starts In:

62
Days
17
Hours
52
Minutes
17
Seconds

Training Schedule

August 20, 2025

COFFEE & PREP

8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. CST

9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. ET

MORNING SESSIONS

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CST

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET

  • What is Ansible
  • How Ansible Works and its Key Components
  • Ascender Demo
  • What is Ledger
  • Hands-on
    -Build my first playbook
    -Create a Job Template in Ascender
    -Execute my first playbook
    -Variables
    -Conditionals and blocks
    -Handlers
    -Loops

Lunch

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CST

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m ET

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CST

2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. ET

  • Hands-on
    -Templates
    -Roles
    -Surveys
    -Workflows
    -Role Based Access Control(RBAC)
  • Wrap Up