This is the code repository for Getting Started with Core Features in Ansible 2 [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.

Jump into learning the key new features in Ansible 2. This course gives you an introduction on how to create Ansible playbooks and modules. You'll learn to create and install custom modules and plugins which can be integrated to automate processes to speed-up software delivery.

This course is for system admins, system engineers, DevOps engineers, and developers who want to use Ansible to automate everything: from software-defined infrastructures to application deployments. A basic knowledge of Ansible, ad-hoc commands, playbooks, and roles are recommended but not essential.

This course has the following hardware and software requirements:
Minimum Hardware Requirements
For successful completion of this course, students will require the computer systems with at least the following:

• OS: Ubuntu 14
• Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz
• Memory: 15GB
• Storage: 200GB

• OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
• Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz
• Memory: 30GB
• Storage: 400GB

• Operating system: Ubuntu
• Python (2.7)
• pip (9.0.1)
• Virtualenv (15.0.1)
• ansible (2.2)
• boto (2.42)
• boto3 (1.3.1)
• botocore (1.4.39)
• PyYAML (3.12)
• pycparser (2.17)
• pycrypto (2.6.1)
• pyparsing (2.2.0)
• python-dateutil (2.5.3)
• PyYAML (3.12)
• requests (2.18.4)
• setuptools (36.5.0)
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