Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices with exam (DO448) is for experienced Red Hat® Ansible® Automation users who want to prove they have taken their Ansible skills to the next level, enabling scalable design and operation of Ansible Automation in the enterprise. You will explore better ways to automate tasks and use Red Hat Ansible Engine effectively, as well as how to leverage advanced features of Ansible to perform more complex tasks. You will also learn how to install and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally coordinate your use of Ansible, control access to hosts and systems, and manage Ansible workflows through the web interface and the Red Hat Ansible Tower API.

Jouw resultaat

As a result of taking this course, you should be able to use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally manage your Red Hat Ansible Automation projects in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprise installations. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:

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

Voor wie

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

Voorkennis

Je bent een Red Hat-gecertificeerde systeembeheerder (RHCSA®), engineer (RHCE®) of je hebt gelijkwaardige Ansible kennis en ervaring.

Aanpak

Het programma is erop gericht om het geleerde direct toe te passen in de praktijk. Onder begeleiding van een zeer ervaren Red Hat-trainer ga je aan de slag met verschillende oefeningen waardoor een optimale verwerking van de leerstof wordt bewerkstelligd. Tijdens deze training maak je gebruik van Red Hat Ansible Automation en Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 8. Je verkrijgt op deze manier een breed inzicht in de geavanceerde automatisering van Ansible.

Studiemateriaal

De training wordt verzorgd in het Nederlands, maar er wordt gebruikgemaakt van officieel Engelstalig Red Hat-studiemateriaal. Tevens beschik je over een moderne online leeromgeving e-Connect. Deze omgeving bevat alle informatie die je voor je training nodig hebt.

Programma

Inhoud

Demonstrate and implement recommended practices for effective and efficient use of Ansible for automation.
Use advanced features of Ansible to manage inventories.
Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.
Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plugins.
Minimize downtime and ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks by using the advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates.
Explain what Red Hat Ansible Tower is and demonstrate a basic ability to navigate and use its web user interface.
Create user accounts and organize them into teams in Red Hat Ansible Tower, then assign the users and teams permissions to administer and access resources in the Ansible Tower service.
Create inventories of machines to manage, then configure credentials necessary for Red Hat Ansible Tower to log in and run Ansible jobs on those systems.
Create projects and job templates in the web UI, using these tools to launch Ansible Playbooks that are stored in Git repositories in order to automate tasks on managed hosts.
Use advanced features of job templates to improve performance, simplify customization of jobs, launch multiple jobs, schedule automatically recurring jobs, and provide notification of job results.
Interact with REST APIs with Ansible Playbooks and control Red Hat Ansible Tower using its REST API.
Administer inventories that are loaded from external files or generated dynamically from scripts or the Ansible Tower smart inventory feature.
Build and operate a proof-of-concept CI/CD pipeline based on Ansible Automation and integrating Red Hat Ansible Tower.
Perform routine maintenance and administration of Red Hat Ansible Tower.
Demonstrate skills learned in this course by configuring and operating a new organization in Ansible Tower using a provided specification, Ansible projects, and hosts to be provisioned and managed.

Examen

De training wordt op de laatste dag afgesloten met het examen. Na een succesvolle afronding ontvang je het certificaat 'Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices'.

Planning

Duur en plaatsen

Deze training duurt 5 dagen.

De training wordt verzorgd in de regio Amsterdam en Nieuwegein.

Investering

Kosten dag variant, bij betaling in 1 termijn

Trainingskosten

€ 3.100,-

Trainingsmateriaal

€ 300,-

Examenkosten

€ 515,-

Arrangementen (Food & Beverage)

€ 125,-

Locatiekosten

€ 147,50

Totaalprijs (exclusief BTW)

€ 4.187,50