Course Overview
You will be able to apply automation first principles to solve real-world Linux system and services problems through the effective creation of Ansible playbooks and application of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. You will gain the skills to automate your workflows, build the foundation for DevOps practices, and learn how to leverage Ansible Automation Platform for developmental efficiencies.
Course description
Learn how to automate Linux system administration tasks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible and the exam (RH295) is designed for Linux system administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.
The Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam (EX294) is included in this offering.
What you’ll learn
- Bring operational efficiency by removing manual processes through automation.
- Easily scale the organization’s dynamic IT infrastructure.
- Accelerate application time to value.
- Rapidly adapt and implement needed innovation through DevOps practices.
Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary. Course content summary
- Install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on control nodes.
- Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them.
- Automate administration tasks with Ansible Playbooks and ad hoc commands.
- Write effective playbooks at scale.
- Protect sensitive data used by Ansible Automation Platform with Ansible Vault.
- Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible Roles and Ansible Content Collections.
Requirements
- Pass the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience.
Target audiences
- Automate configuration management
- Ensure consistent and repeatable application deployment
- Provision and deployment of development, testing, and production servers
- Integrate with DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery workflows
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 9 Lessons
- 5 Days
- Topics9
- 1.1Introduce Ansible Describe the fundamental concepts of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and how it is used, and install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- 1.2Implement an Ansible playbook Create an inventory of managed hosts, write a simple Ansible playbook, and run the playbook to automate tasks on those hosts.
- 1.3Manage variables and facts Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
- 1.4Implement task control Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.
- 1.5Deploy files to managed hosts Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible playbooks.
- 1.6Managing complex plays and playbooks Write playbooks for larger, more complex plays and playbooks.
- 1.7Simplify playbooks with roles Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
- 1.8Troubleshoot Ansible Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
- 1.9Automate Linux administration tasks Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.
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