Interactive labs for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

These hands-on learning scenarios provide you with a preconfigured Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform environment to experiment, practice, and see how automation can relieve you of manual tasks.

Write your first playbook

Learn the basics of writing a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform playbook to automate simple infrastructure tasks.

60 mins

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Getting Started

Apply Ansible Automation Platform components, tools, and best practices to support your IT goals—from content creation to task infrastructure management.

Install ansible-navigator and take a closer look at the command line.

30 mins

Learn how to sign Ansible Content Collections using a private automation hub and install collections with ansible-galaxy CLI.

30 mins

Explore the automation controller interface and complete some basic tasks.

55 mins

Integrate a CI/CD pipeline into automation controller to see how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform supports DevOps practices.

60 mins

Learn to install automation controller and private automation hub with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform operators.

60 mins

Install ansible-builder v3 and learn how to create custom execution environments..

45 mins

Learn the basics of writing a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform playbook to automate simple infrastructure tasks.

60 mins

Create groups so your automation hub users have appropriate system permissions or grant view-only access to unauthorized users.

45 mins

Learn about automation mesh features, perform basic configuration tasks, and use automation mesh to run a job template.

40 mins

Explore the basic functionality of the ServiceNow collection for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

60 mins

Sign source repositories that include Ansible Playbooks and content, and validate signed content in the automation controller.

45 mins

Explore Compliance as Code for Linux, Windows, Cloud, and Networking all in one place.

75 mins

Learn how to configure, activate, and use Ansible Lightspeed to generate Ansible content.

30 mins

Network and Edge

Learn the basics of automating entire network processes across devices and domains—from the datacenter, throughout clouds, and to the edge.

Learn how to perform network configurations and backups using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

20 mins

Learn Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform playbook basics for network automation.

40 mins

Learn about retrieving facts from a Cisco IOS XE device.

30 mins

Learn how to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to retrieve facts from network infrastructure and create dynamic documentation.

15 mins

Learn how to create an automation controller survey to configure a Cisco IOS network device.

20 mins

Learn the fundamentals of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for network automation using ansible-navigator.

20 mins

Learn how to scale containerized applications to the edge.

60 mins

Simplify network administration and operations using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

25 mins

Learn how to automate Palo Alto Networks firewalls using Ansible Automation Platform.

55 mins

Create a single entry point, platform agnostic, to manage a network using network-base Validated Content collection

50 mins

This exercise covers the steps to create a simple Ansible playbook to configure a new login banner in a Cisco CSR router as an example.

50 mins

Event-Driven Ansible

Automate routine tasks and deliver more efficient IT operations with Event-Driven Ansible.

Learn about the fundamental components of Event-Driven Ansible and go through some examples.

30 mins

Use Event-Driven Ansible to react to events generated by Git operations.

40 mins

Use Event-Driven Ansible to react to network events as well as work with ChatOps.

45 mins

Hybrid Cloud

Use Ansible Automation Platform to automate actions like infrastructure optimization, task deployment, documentation, and management across your hybrid cloud environment.

Deploy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure and perform automation tasks in your Azure environment.

45 mins

Use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to retrieve structured data from public clouds and provide dynamic documentation.

45 mins

Use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to perform cloud operations once your product has been made available.

45 mins

Retrieve valuable information for your hybrid cloud footprint using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

45 mins

Use Terraform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform together to extend and centralize your automation on 1 platform.

135 mins

Deploy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure and perform automation tasks in your Azure environment.

45 mins

Perform cloud operations tasks in your Azure environment.

45 mins

Perform cloud optimization tasks in your Azure environment.

45 mins

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