This hands-on foundational Ansible training course is designed to give IT, DevOps and other technology professionals a comprehensive introduction to the Ansible IT automation engine. Through lecture and intensive lab work, attendees will gain a clear understanding of Ansible's capabilities for provisioning, configuration management, deployment, and orchestration. The discussion will include the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) methodology and how Ansible accomplishes state enforcement with simple, easy to remember declaration syntax.