Your result

As a result of attending this course, you should be able to demonstrate these skills:

• Apply automation first principles to solve real-world Linux system and services problems through the effective creation of Ansible playbooks and application of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Automate your workflows
• Build the foundation for DevOps practices
• Leverage Ansible Automation Platform for developmental efficiencies

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) is designed for Linux administrators and developers who need to automate repeatable and error-prone steps for system provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

Preliminary knowledge

You hold the certificate Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) - exam (EX200) or you have comparable knowledge on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the right fit for your skills.

Course materials

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

Further education

Upon completing this training, you may choose to expand your knowledge further with:

• Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374)

Content

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

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'.