AU374

Course Description

Advance your Ansible skills and develop automation that scales by applying recommended practices with the new, container-focused tools from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AU374) is designed for automation content developers to use the container-focused tools from Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform to efficiently develop automation that can be managed through the Ansible Automation Platform unified UI. Learn recommended practices for automation development using reusable code, advanced playbook techniques, shared automation execution environments, and preparing for scalable automation with automation content navigator.

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5.

Following course completion, hands-on lab access will remain available for up to 45 days for any live course that includes a virtual environment.

Note: This course is offered as a four day in person class, a five day virtual class or is self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery. For full course details, scheduling, and pricing, select your location then “get started” on the right hand menu.

Course Summary

• Use the capabilities of automation content navigator to develop Ansible Playbooks.
• Apply recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
• Use advanced features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to work with data, including filters and plug-ins.
• Perform automation operations as rolling updates.
• Create automation execution environments to bundle and distribute the dependencies needed to run automation code.

Target Audience

This course is designed for users who create automation content, including these roles: 

• Developers
• DevOps engineers
• Linux system administrators
• Other IT professionals with some experience using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Recommended training

• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294)
• Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 or later, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience

Technology considerations

• No BYOD/BYDW or internet required. (Implementation of SSH access for VT/ROLE will require the internet for that purpose.)

Course Outline

• Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Develop Ansible Playbooks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 by following recommended practices.
• Manage Ansible Content Collections and Automation Execution Environments
  • Run playbooks that use content collections not included in ansible-core, either from an existing execution environment or by downloading them from the automation hub.
• Run Playbooks with Automation Controller
  • Explain what automation controller is and demonstrate how to use it to run playbooks that you developed with automation content navigator.
• Work with Ansible Configuration Settings
  • Examine and adjust the configuration of Ansible and automation content navigator to simplify development and to troubleshoot issues.
• Manage Inventories
  • Manage inventories by using advanced features of Ansible.
• Manage Task Execution
  • Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.
• Transform Data with Filters and Plug-ins
  • Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plug-ins.
• Coordinate Rolling Updates
  • Use advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates in order to minimize downtime and to ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks.
• Create Ansible Content Collections and Automation Execution Environments
  • Write your own Ansible Content Collections, publish them, embed them in a custom automation execution environment, and run them in playbooks by using automation controller.

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop skills to:

• Distribute automation throughout your organization with the use of reusable code.
• Create easily scalable automation for larger enterprise environments with the new, containerized architecture.

Impact on the individual

• Use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to develop automation in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprises. In this course you will gain the skills to effectively manage and optimize playbooks, create and share automation execution environments and collections, and learn how to use automation content navigator for managing the automation lifecycle.

Recommended next course or exam

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform exam (EX374)
• Continue building automation skills with:
  • Red Hat Services Management and Automation (RH358)
  • Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO467)
  • Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible (DO417)
  • Ansible for Network Automation (DO457)