Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294)

Your result

As a result of attending this course, you should be able to use Ansible for the purpose of automation, configuration, and management. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:

• Install and configure Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine on a control node
• Create and manage inventories of managed hosts, as well as 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

Target audience

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

Approach

This training is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat® Ansible Engine 2.8. During the training, an experienced Red Hat trainer will work with aspects from the working experience. Afterward, you will be able to implement Playbooks independently, so that you can manage large projects.

Preliminary knowledge

You hold the certificate Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) - exam (EX200) or you have comparable knowledge with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Course materials

This training makes use of official Red Hat study materials in English.

Classroom teaching or virtual classroom

You attend the meetings in a classroom at a location of your choice. You will learn a lot from the other students in your group, which is why we offer an alternative location if there are insufficient registrations for your preferred location. Our teaching locations are found throughout the Netherlands. Do you prefer lessons at fixed times, online and with a teacher? Then virtual classroom may be your preferred learning method. For more information about our training options, see Opleidingsvarianten.

Content

• Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine.
• Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.
• Write a simple Ansible Playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed hosts.
• Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
• Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.
• Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.
• Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.
• Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
• Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
• Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.

Exam and certificate

This training prepares you well for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The exam is not part of this training, you have to register for this exam separately. After successfully passing this exam you will receive the certificate 'Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible'.