RH295 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible and exam

Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) teaches the skills needed to manage large numbers of systems and applications efficiently and consistently. You will learn the techniques needed to use Ansible® to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

Who should attend 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

Prerequisites

Pass the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience

Course summary

• Installing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on control nodes.
• Creating and updating inventories of managed hosts and managing connections to them.
• Automating administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad hoc commands.
• Writing effective playbooks at scale.
• Protecting sensitive data used by Ansible Automation Platform with Ansible Vault.
• Reusing code and simplifying playbook development with Ansible Automation Platform roles and collections.

• Introduce Ansible
  Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine.
• Deploy Ansible
  Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.
• Implement playbooks
  Write a simple Ansible Playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed 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 large projects
  Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.
• 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.