Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible

Course ID : RH294

Duration In-class (в days) : 4 days

Duration Online : 4 days

Сurriculum : in-class, Virtual Instructor-Led Training - ONLINE

Delivery : 12.02.2024 - 16.02.2024

Overview

Learn how to automate Linux system administration tasks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) is designed for Linux administrators and developers who need to automate repeatable and error-prone steps for system provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9 and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

Audience for this course

This course is geared toward Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers who are responsible for these tasks:

• Automating configuration management
• Ensuring consistent and repeatable application deployment
• Provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers
• Integrating with DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery workflows

Objective

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

Prerequisites for this course

Pass the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience.

Outcomes

Impact on the organization

• 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

Impact on the individual

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 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.

Outline

1. Introduce Ansible
2. Implement an Ansible playbook
3. Manage variables and facts
4. Implement task control
5. Deploy files to managed hosts
6. Manage complex plays and playbooks
7. Simplify playbooks with roles
8. Troubleshoot Ansible
9. Automate Linux administration tasks