Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices

About the course

In this course is for experienced Red Hat® Ansible® Automation users who want to take their Ansible skills to the next level, enabling scalable design and operation of Ansible Automation in the enterprise.

ideal for

This course is designed for users who need to set recommended design patterns and operate automation practices at scale, including these roles:

• DevOps engineers

• Linux system administrators, developers

• Release engineers

• Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Follow recommended practices to write and manage Ansible Automation.

• Use Git to effectively manage playbooks and inventories as part of a DevOps workflow.

• Control and optimize the performance of task execution by Ansible Playbooks.

• Use filters and plugins to populate, manipulate, and manage data used by Ansible Playbooks.

• Delegate tasks for one managed host to other hosts and manage rolling updates with Ansible.

• Deploy and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles at scale.

• Use the Red Hat Ansible Tower API to launch jobs from existing templates and integrate Red Hat Ansible Tower into a simple CI/CD pipeline.

Prerequisite Knowledge

• Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience

• Be a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience