Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices (DO447) is for experienced Red Hat® Ansible® Automation users who want to take their Ansible skills to the next level, enabling scalable design and operation of Ansible Automation in the enterprise.
Our Ansible IT automation course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to automate IT tasks using Ansible, an open-source software tool for IT automation, configuration management, and application deployment. This course covers the essential concepts and techniques of Ansible automation, including installation and configuration, playbook creation, and task automation.
This course is ideal for IT professionals, DevOps engineers, and system administrators who are responsible for managing and automating IT infrastructure. It is also suitable for developers who want to learn how to use Ansible for application deployment and configuration management. Prior experience with Linux command line is recommended, but no prior experience with Ansible is required.
Take your Red Hat Ansible Automation skills to the next level and manage automation at scale
Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices (DO447) is for experienced Red Hat® Ansible® Automation users who want to take their Ansible skills to the next level, enabling scalable design and operation of Ansible Automation in the enterprise. You will explore better ways to automate tasks and use Red Hat Ansible Engine effectively, as well as how to leverage advanced features of Ansible to perform more complex tasks. You will also learn how to install and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally coordinate your use of Ansible, control access to hosts and systems, and manage Ansible workflows through the web interface and the Red Hat Ansible Tower API.
This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation (Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 / Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 8.
Course content summary
Audience for this course
This course is designed for users who need to set recommended design patterns and operate automation practices at scale, including these roles:
Prerequisites for this course
Outline for this course
Develop with recommended practices
Manage inventories
Manage task execution
Transform data with filters and plugins
Coordinate rolling updates
Install and access Red Hat Ansible Tower
Manage access with users and teams
Manage inventories and credentials
Manage projects and launching Ansible jobs
Construct advanced job workflows
Communicate with APIs using Ansible
Manage advanced inventories
Create a simple CI/CD pipeline with Ansible Tower
Maintain Ansible Tower
Perform a comprehensive review
Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature
of the underlying job evolves. For questions or confirmation on a specific objective or topic,contact
one of our Red Hatters.
Impact on the organization
This course is intended to develop the skills needed to leverage and extend the use of an existing Ansible infrastructure across business units in large enterprise environments. These skills are suitable for organizations seeking to increase cost savings and operational efficiency through wider adoption of Ansible in their enterprise.
Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.
Impact on the individual
As a result of taking this course, you should be able to use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally manage your Red Hat Ansible Automation projects in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprise installations. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:
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