Course Description

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible and exam (RH295) is designed for Linux system administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

The Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam (EX294) is included in this offering. This offering is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 9 and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

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 simplifying playbook development with Ansible Roles and Ansible Content Collections.

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
Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible playbooks.

Managing complex plays and playbooks
Write playbooks 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.

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:

• Automate configuration management
• Ensure consistent and repeatable application deployment
• Provision and deployment of development, testing, and production servers
• Integrate with DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery workflows

Prerequisites for this course

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