RED HAT ANSIBLE AUTOMATION Course

Course description

Linux Students and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

Students will learn how to install and configure Ansible on a management workstation and prepare managed hosts for automation. Students will write Ansible Playbooks to automate tasks, and run them to ensure servers are correctly deployed and configured. Examples of approaches to automate common Linux system administration tasks will be explored.

• COURSE OBJECTIVES
• Install and configure Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine on a control node.
• Create and manage inventories of managed hosts, and prepare them for Ansible automation.
• Run individual ad hoc automation tasks from the command line.
• Write Ansible Playbooks to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed hosts.
• Parameterize playbooks using variables and facts, and protect sensitive data with Ansible Vault.
• Write and reuse existing Ansible roles to simplify playbook creation and reuse code.
• Automate common Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration tasks using Ansible.

• Audience for this course
• Linux system administrators or students, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers responsible for automation of configuration management, consistent and repeatable application deployment, provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers, and integration with DevOps CI/CD workflows.

• Prerequisites for this course
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator or equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience.

Outline for this course

• Introduce Ansible
• Describe the fundamental concepts of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and how it is used, and install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Implement an Ansible playbook
• Create an inventory of managed hosts, write a simple Ansible playbook, and run the playbook to automate tasks on those hosts.
• Manage variables and facts
• Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
• Implement task control
• Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.
• Deploy files to managed hosts
• Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.
• Manage complex plays and playbooks
• Write playbooks that are optimized for larger,  more complex plays and playbooks.
• Simplify playbooks with roles
• Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
• Troubleshoot Ansible
• Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
• Automate Linux administration tasks
• Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible