System and cloud administrators who need to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and other IT needs.

Prerequisites for this course

• Have a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent experience.

Course introduction

Introduce and review the course.

Introduce Ansible

Describe the terminology and architecture of Ansible.

Deploy Ansible

Install Ansible and run ad hoc commands.

Implement playbooks

Write Ansible plays and execute a playbook.

Manage variables and inclusions

Describe variable scope and precedence, manage variables and facts in a play, and manage inclusions.

Implement task control

Manage task control, handlers, and tags in Ansible playbooks.

Implement Jinja2 templates

Implement a Jinja2 template.

Implement roles

Create and manage roles.

Configure complex playbooks

Configure connection types, delegations, and parallelism.

Implement Ansible Vault

Manage encryption with Ansible Vault.

Troubleshoot Ansible

Troubleshoot the Ansible control machine and managed nodes.

Implement Ansible Tower

Implement Ansible Tower.

Implement Ansible in a DevOps environment

Implement Ansible in a DevOps environment using Vagrant.

Comprehensive review

Review tasks from the Automation with Ansible course.

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, please contact us.

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Ansible Automation (EX407) exam

The performance-based Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation exam (EX407) tests your ability to use Ansible to automate the configuration of systems and applications.

Automation with Ansible II: Ansible Tower (DO409)

Designed for IT professionals who use Ansible and need to centrally manage their Ansible projects in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprise installations using Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to implement Ansible in an operations or cloud computing environment. These skills are suitable for organizations seeking to gain cost savings and operational efficiency by implementing the DevOps methodology with Ansible.

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 attending this course, students should be able to implement Ansible for the purpose of automation, configuration, and management in a DevOps environment.

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Use Ansible to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts.
• Write Ansible Playbooks to standardize task executions.
• Manage playbook execution centrally, using Ansible Tower.