1. What is Ansible 2. Why Configuration Management Matters 3. Ansible Architecture 4. Control Node and Managed Nodes 5. Installation and Setup 6. Ansible Configuration Files 7. Inventory Files Explained 8. Ansible Ad-hoc Commands 9. Ansible Modules Overview 10. Beginner Best Practices

11. YAML Basics for Ansible 12. Playbooks Introduction 13. Writing Your First Playbook 14. Tasks, Handlers and Variables 15. Facts and Gathering Facts 16. Conditionals and Loops 17. Templates with Jinja2 18. File and Package Management 19. Service Management 20. User and Permission Management 21. Error Handling 22. Tags and Selective Execution 23. Roles Introduction 24. Creating and Using Roles 25. Playbook Best Practices

26. Ansible Galaxy 27. Role Directory Structure 28. Ansible Vault 29. Managing Secrets Securely 30. Application Deployment 31. Server Hardening 32. Ansible with Docker 33. Ansible with Kubernetes 34. Troubleshooting 35. Performance Optimization

36. Ansible at Scale 37. Ansible in CI/CD Pipelines 38. Ansible with Jenkins 39. Ansible Anti-Patterns 40. Mini Project