🎯 Enterprise Ansible Training Program
Professional engagement for Jackson Family Wines infrastructure and security teams
Led by John Alexander Mobley, Founder of Mobleysoft
🎯 Learning Objectives
- Master enterprise Ansible automation across your complete technology stack
- Implement production-ready solutions with security, monitoring, and compliance built-in
- Build wine industry-specific automation for vineyard operations and multi-site coordination
- Achieve operational excellence with disaster recovery, performance optimization, and cost management
- Enable team self-sufficiency with knowledge transfer and troubleshooting capabilities
📅 Professional Engagement Structure
Week 1: Enterprise Foundations
- Security-first Ansible implementation
- Enterprise role development
- AWX production deployment
- Monitoring and compliance integration
- Performance optimization strategies
Week 2: Jackson Family Wines Applications
- Wine industry automation scenarios
- Multi-site network coordination
- Point-of-sale system management
- Disaster recovery implementation
- Cost optimization across cloud/on-prem
🛠️ Technology Stack Mastery
Azure Cloud
- Cost-optimized VM provisioning
- Network security automation
- Disaster recovery orchestration
- Compliance monitoring
VMware vSphere
- Enterprise VM lifecycle
- Automated backup strategies
- Resource optimization
- High availability configuration
Windows Server
- Security hardening automation
- Compliance enforcement
- Update management at scale
- Performance monitoring
Cisco/Meraki
- Network segmentation automation
- Security policy enforcement
- Multi-site coordination
- Performance optimization
Check Point
- Advanced threat protection
- Automated incident response
- Compliance reporting
- Policy lifecycle management
📚 Week 1: Enterprise Foundations
Security-first Ansible implementation with enterprise operational standards
🔐 Day 1: Security-First Installation & Setup
- Enterprise Ansible installation with security hardening
- SSH key management and certificate-based authentication
- Ansible Vault implementation for secrets management
- Network segmentation and firewall configuration
- Audit logging and compliance framework setup
# Enterprise Ansible Configuration (/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg)
[defaults]
host_key_checking = True
log_path = /var/log/ansible/ansible.log
vault_password_file = /etc/ansible/.vault_pass
timeout = 30
gathering = smart
fact_caching = jsonfile
fact_caching_connection = /var/cache/ansible/facts
[privilege_escalation]
become = True
become_method = sudo
become_user = root
[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s
pipelining = True
📋 Day 2: Enterprise Playbook Development
- YAML best practices for enterprise environments
- Error handling and rollback strategies
- Idempotency testing and validation
- Performance optimization techniques
- Integration with monitoring and alerting systems
🏗️ Day 3: Enterprise Role Architecture
- Scalable role design patterns
- Role testing with Molecule
- Version control and CI/CD integration
- Role dependency management
- Enterprise role distribution strategies
⚡ Day 4: Advanced Enterprise Concepts
- Dynamic inventory and service discovery
- Advanced templating with operational data
- Parallel execution optimization
- Integration with enterprise monitoring systems
- Disaster recovery automation patterns
🎛️ Day 5: AWX Production Deployment
- High-availability AWX cluster setup
- Enterprise authentication integration (LDAP/SAML)
- Role-based access control implementation
- Workflow orchestration for complex deployments
- Performance monitoring and capacity planning
🔧 Week 2: Jackson Family Wines Applications
Real-world automation solutions for wine industry operations
☁️ Azure Cloud Optimization
Cost-effective cloud automation with disaster recovery and compliance
---
# Jackson Family Wines Azure Infrastructure
- name: Deploy wine industry cloud infrastructure
hosts: localhost
vars:
wine_regions:
- { name: "sonoma", location: "westus2", tier: "production" }
- { name: "mendocino", location: "westus", tier: "development" }
tasks:
- name: Create resource groups for wine regions
azure.azcollection.azure_rm_resourcegroup:
name: "rg-jackson-{{ item.name }}-{{ item.tier }}"
location: "{{ item.location }}"
tags:
environment: "{{ item.tier }}"
wine_region: "{{ item.name }}"
cost_center: "vineyard_operations"
loop: "{{ wine_regions }}"
🖥️ VMware Vineyard Operations
Automated VM lifecycle for vineyard monitoring and operations systems
---
# Vineyard monitoring system deployment
- name: Deploy vineyard IoT infrastructure
hosts: vmware_hosts
vars:
vineyard_blocks:
- { name: "block_a", sensors: 24, irrigation: true }
- { name: "block_b", sensors: 18, irrigation: false }
tasks:
- name: Create vineyard monitoring VMs
community.vmware.vmware_guest:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
datacenter: "Jackson_Datacenter"
cluster: "Vineyard_Cluster"
name: "vm-vineyard-{{ item.name }}-monitor"
template: "Ubuntu-20.04-IoT-Template"
state: present
loop: "{{ vineyard_blocks }}"
🪟 Windows Server Wine Operations
Point-of-sale and customer management system automation
---
# Tasting room Windows servers configuration
- name: Configure tasting room servers
hosts: tasting_room_servers
tasks:
- name: Install point-of-sale system requirements
win_feature:
name:
- IIS-WebServerRole
- IIS-WebServer
- IIS-ApplicationDevelopment
- IIS-ASPNET45
state: present
restart: yes
🌐 Cisco & Meraki Networking
Network automation with security segmentation
---
# Configure wine operations networking
- name: Setup wine operations VLANs
cisco.ios.ios_vlans:
config:
- vlan_id: 100
name: TASTING_ROOM_POS
state: active
- vlan_id: 200
name: VINEYARD_IOT
state: active
🛡️ Check Point Security
Firewall automation with wine industry compliance
---
# Create wine operations security rules
- name: Configure wine operations firewall
check_point.mgmt.cp_mgmt_access_rule:
layer: Jackson_Wine_Security
name: "Allow Tasting Room POS Traffic"
source: Tasting_Room_Network
destination: POS_Server_Farm
service: https
action: Accept
🍷 Wine Industry Automation Scenarios
Custom automation solutions for Jackson Family Wines operations
🍇 Harvest Season Automation
Scenario: Automated infrastructure scaling during critical harvest period
- Automatic scaling of vineyard monitoring systems
- Enhanced backup schedules for harvest data
- Temperature and humidity monitoring automation
- Grape quality tracking system deployment
- Harvest crew coordination network setup
🍾 Multi-Site Tasting Room Coordination
Scenario: Synchronized point-of-sale and inventory management
- Real-time inventory synchronization
- Customer loyalty program coordination
- Sales analytics and reporting automation
- Wine allocation and distribution automation
- Event coordination system deployment
🚨 Disaster Recovery for Wine Operations
Scenario: Automated disaster recovery ensuring business continuity
- Automated backup of customer and sales data
- Vineyard monitoring system redundancy
- Point-of-sale system failover automation
- Wine inventory protection and recovery
- Multi-site coordination during emergencies
🧪 Hands-On Laboratory Exercises
Practical exercises using Jackson Family Wines scenarios
🎯 Lab Exercise 1: Tasting Room Point-of-Sale Deployment
Objective: Deploy and configure a complete point-of-sale system
- Deploy Windows Server infrastructure on Azure
- Configure PCI-compliant payment processing
- Setup inventory synchronization with main systems
- Implement customer loyalty program integration
- Configure automated backup and disaster recovery
Success Criteria: Fully functional POS system with compliance monitoring
🍇 Lab Exercise 2: Vineyard IoT Monitoring Network
Objective: Automate deployment of vineyard monitoring infrastructure
- Deploy VMware VMs for sensor data collection
- Configure Cisco network segmentation for IoT devices
- Setup Check Point security policies for IoT traffic
- Implement automated data analysis and alerting
- Create harvest season scaling automation
Success Criteria: Automated vineyard monitoring with real-time alerts
🚨 Lab Exercise 3: Disaster Recovery Automation
Objective: Implement comprehensive disaster recovery
- Create automated backup systems for all critical data
- Setup multi-site failover for point-of-sale systems
- Implement vineyard monitoring redundancy
- Configure wine inventory protection and recovery
- Test complete disaster recovery scenarios
Success Criteria: Complete disaster recovery capability with automated testing
❓ Interactive Knowledge Assessment
1. What is the recommended approach for managing secrets in enterprise Ansible deployments?
2. Which wine industry compliance framework requires 7-year data retention?
3. What collection is used for Azure automation?
💻 Interactive Command Practice
Practice Ansible commands in a simulated Jackson Family Wines environment:
Welcome to Jackson Family Wines Ansible Training Environment
Connected to: training.jackson.wine
ansible@jackson-training:~$ _
🤖 AI Automation Assistant
Generate custom Ansible code for Jackson Family Wines scenarios:
🧠 Enterprise Code Generator
Powered by AI • Reviewed by John Alexander Mobley, Mobleysoft
📥 Professional Engagement Deliverables
Complete package of production-ready materials for Jackson Family Wines
Prepared by John Alexander Mobley, Mobleysoft