Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RHEL9)

Prerequisites for this course

• Pass the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience.
• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.

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:

• 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

Outline

1. Introduce Ansible

• Describe the fundamental concepts of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and how it is used, and install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

2. 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.

3. Manage variables and facts

• Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.

4. Implement task control

• Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.

5. Deploy files to managed hosts

• Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.

6. Manage complex plays and playbooks

• Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex plays and playbooks.

7. Simplify playbooks with roles

• Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.

8. Troubleshoot Ansible

• Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.

9. Automate Linux administration tasks

• Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.