Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation

Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294)

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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.

This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8 and Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8.

Course Objectives

• IT automation is key to managing large numbers of systems and applications efficiently and consistently at scale. This course develops the skills needed to efficiently operate and more easily scale the organization's dynamic IT infrastructure, accelerate application time to value, and rapidly adapt and implement needed innovation through DevOps practices.
• As a result of attending this course, you should be able to use Ansible for the purpose of automation, configuration, and management. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:
• Install and configure Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine on a control node.
• Create and manage inventories of managed hosts, as well as prepare them for Ansible automation.
• Run individual ad hoc automation tasks from the command line.
• Write Ansible Playbooks to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed hosts.
• Parameterize playbooks using variables and facts, and protect sensitive data with Ansible Vault.
• Write and reuse existing Ansible roles to simplify playbook creation and reuse code.
• Automate common Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration tasks using Ansible.

Who Should Attend

• Linux system administrators
• DevOps engineers
• Infrastructure automation engineers
• Systems design engineers

Prerequisites

Required

• RH124 Red Hat System Administration I
• RH134 Red Hat System Administration II

-OR-

• RH199 RHCSA Rapid Track Course

Course Benefits

• Install Ansible / Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes.
• Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them.
• Automate administration tasks with Ansible Playbooks and ad hoc commands.
• Write effective playbooks at scale.
• Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault.
• Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles.

What Exam Do I Need To Get Certified?

EX294 : Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Course Outline

• Introduce Ansible
• Deploy Ansible
• Implement playbooks
• Manage variables and facts
• Implement task control
• Deploy files to managed hosts
• Manage large projects
• Simplify playbooks with roles
• Troubleshoot Ansible
• Automate Linux administration tasks