Your result

As a result of taking this course and exam, you should gain 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 and exam are 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

RH294-Bundle: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible and Exam (RH295) is designed for Linux administrators and developers who need to automate repeatable and error-prone steps for system provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

The Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam (EX294) is included in this offering.

Preliminary knowledge

You hold the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) certificate or you have comparable knowledge of 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 is concluded with an exam. After the training, you will receive the certificate 'RH294-Bundle: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible and Exam (RH295)'.