Briefly
A practical automation course that treats Ansible like an operating system for change, not just a YAML syntax exercise.
Ansible Factory is a self-paced course for systems engineers learning Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform by operating an automation factory.
The course is structured around the patterns I would actually want a learner to recognise: inventory, playbooks, idempotency, roles, secrets, testing, CI, collections, AAP, and event-driven automation.
Progress, bookmarks, last-visited lessons, search, and references stay in the browser, so the product works as a lightweight local-first learning tool.
What I built
- The course index has 13 chapters and 73 lessons.
- Lessons include reading time, lab time, difficulty tags, prerequisites, outcomes, and completion state.
- The reference catalogue gives working operators a faster route back to modules, collections, and production caveats.
- The visual system is terminal-first, dense, and built for scanning.
A few notes
- The course index, lesson reader, and reference catalogue are already in place.
- The app persists progress locally and does not need an account to function.
- The source README identifies GitLab-local as the canonical project host.