DO447 Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices

PT26042
Training Summary
Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices (DO447) 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. 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. This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation (Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 / Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
  • Investigate recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
  • Perform rolling updates with your Ansible Automation operations.
  • Use advanced features of Ansible to work with data, including filters and plugins.
  • Control applications through their REST API with Ansible Playbooks.
  • Implement Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally coordinate and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
  • Leverage capabilities of Red Hat Ansible Tower to manage complex automation workflows.
  • Implement a CI/CD pipeline for your automation with Git and Red Hat Ansible Tower.
Prerequisites
  • 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
Duration
5 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience
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
Course Topics
  • Develop with recommended practices
  • Manage inventories
  • Manage task execution
  • Transform data with filters and plugins
  • Coordinate rolling updates
  • Install and access Red Hat Ansible Tower
  • Manage access with users and teams
  • Manage inventories and credentials
  • Manage projects and launching Ansible jobs
  • Construct advanced job workflows
  • Communicate with APIs using Ansible
  • Manage advanced inventories
  • Create a simple CI/CD pipeline with Ansible Tower
  • ::Maintain Ansible Tower
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