Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Prerequisites for this course

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• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294)
• Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 or later, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience

Target Audience

This course is designed for users who create automation content, including these roles:

• Developers
• DevOps engineers
• Linux system administrators
• Other IT professionals with some experience using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Course Outline

1. Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2

• Develop Ansible Playbooks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 by following recommended practices.

2. Manage Ansible Content Collections and Automation Execution Environments

• Run playbooks that use content collections not included in ansible-core, either from an existing execution environment or by downloading them from the automation hub.

3. Run Playbooks with Automation Controller

• Explain what automation controller is and demonstrate how to use it to run playbooks that you developed with automation content navigator.

4. Work with Ansible Configuration Settings

• Examine and adjust the configuration of Ansible and automation content navigator to simplify development and to troubleshoot issues.

5. Manage Inventories

• Manage inventories by using advanced features of Ansible.

6. Manage Task Execution

• Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.

7. Transform Data with Filters and Plug-ins

• Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plug-ins.

8. Coordinate Rolling Updates

• Use advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates in order to minimize downtime and to ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks.

9. Create Ansible Content Collections and Automation Execution Environments

• Write your own Ansible Content Collections, publish them, embed them in a custom automation execution environment, and run them in playbooks by using automation controller.