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Where are you?
Maximize your Ansible Automation Platform investment and optimize your IT infrastructure with targeted skill development, tailored support, and expert mentorship. Whether you are at the foundation, expansion, or evolution stage, Red Hat offers a holistic approach—including Consulting, Training, Certification, and Technical Account Management—to help you achieve your business goals.
Our three-phased journey includes:
Foundation
Define your automation strategy, engage stakeholders, assess exist
Evolution
Build dedicated adoption teams, foster collaboration, and advance automation capabilities with specialized training as your organization scales.
Expansion
Implement repeatable automation methods, establish pilot and core adoption teams, and onboard key personnel through Ansible training.
Automate at enterprise scale
Red Hat Consulting partners with your organization to achieve your automation goals—whether standardizing, optimizing, securing, or migrating your automation infrastructure. Through hands-on mentoring, we help your teams deliver business outcomes quickly, reliably, and securely, while fostering agile collaboration.
Red Hat Consulting can help you onboard to Ansible Automation Platform by:
- Assisting you in deploying Ansible Automation Platform in your environment (including installing and configuring automation controller, private automation hub, and execution environments).
- Reviewing migration technical considerations and helping you craft a plan to make the necessary updates.
- Providing preferred automation approaches, along with establishing Ansible Automation Platform coding standards.
- Assisting with processes, tooling, and identifying applications and workloads to migrate.
- Transferring knowledge with automation staff on platform capabilities and automation design.
Red Hat Consulting helps you address use cases like infrastructure, security, and network automation, as well as event-driven remediation—empowering you to provision, monitor, and standardize your environment, or enable self-healing infrastructure with Ansible Automation Platform.
Equip your team for success
Red Hat Training and Certification provides courses and coveted industry certifications to help your teams ramp up their automation skills and compliance and work more efficiently. Start your journey.
Stage 1: Taste of learning
Ansible Basics: Automation Technical Overview
Course Description
Create, scale, and manage automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Ansible Basics: Automation Technical Overview is a series of free on-demand videos that introduce you to the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Learn configuration management, provisioning, deploying, and managing compute infrastructure across cloud, virtual, and physical environments with Ansible.
Course Content Summary
In this Ansible Automation Technical Overview course, you’ll learn how to simplify IT tasks like configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration using Ansible. Presented by Roger Lopez, Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible, this introductory course covers essential Ansible concepts, including modules, tasks, and playbooks. Through real-world examples, you'll explore how Automation Controller fits into automation workflows and how Ansible Automation Platform can be used to manage production environments.
This course is based on Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
Audience for this course
IT leaders, administrators, engineers, architects, and anyone else seeking a high-level understanding of Ansible
Stage 2: Test your skills
Test your expertise, determine your skills gaps, and get recommendations for where to start with a Red Hat Training skill assessment.
Stage 3: Start your free learning subscription
Organizations are given unlimited access to Red Hat Training courses to help them build foundational AI skills.
Stage 4: Design your automation training path
Our comprehensive curriculum helps Ansible Automation Platform users improve their knowledge and develop skills to boost productivity and advance their careers.
Automation skills path for Linux administrators
To start on this skills path, you must be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®). Once you have that required certification, or the equivalent skills, you can begin the automation skills path.
Red Hat Linux® Automation with Ansible (RH294)
Course description
Learn how to automate Linux system administration tasks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) is designed for Linux administrators and developers who need to automate repeatable and error-prone steps for system provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.
This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9 and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.
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.
Course content summary
- Install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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 Automation Platform with Ansible Vault.
- Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible Roles and Ansible Content Collections.
Audience for this course
This course is geared toward Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers who are responsible for these tasks:
- Automating configuration management
- Ensuring consistent and repeatable application deployment
- Provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers
- Integrating with DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery workflows
Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (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 (DO374) is designed for automation content developers to leverage the new, container focused tools from Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform to efficiently develop automation that can be managed by the automation controller. Learn recommended practices for automation development using reusable code, advanced playbook techniques, shared execution environments, and preparing for scalable automation with the automation content navigator.
This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.
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 five day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery.
Course content summary
- Leverage capabilities of the 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 plugins.
- 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 basic expertise using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment
Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO467)
Course description
Manage complex Red Hat Ansible automation workflows at scale and prevent single points of failure.
Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO467) is for experienced Ansible automation engineers, DevOps practitioners, and Linux system administrators seeking to deploy, control, and support centralized automation execution on a large scale. Students will use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 to scale up Ansible automation. They will deploy automation controller to centrally manage automation workflows, automation mesh to scale up and distribute execution capacity, and private automation hub to manage Ansible Content Collections and automation execution environments for use by automation developers. Large scale automation cluster design and approaches to ensure high availability of Ansible Automation Platform will also be discussed.
This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.
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 five day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery..
Course content summary
- Discussion of the architecture of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.
- Installation and configuration of automation controllers and private automation hubs to centrally coordinate and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
- Integration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with centralized Git repository services such as GitLab.
- Management of users, teams, and access permissions in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
- Creation and management of workflows that execute automation based on the success or failure of previous jobs.
- Configuration and management of automation mesh to distribute execution between automation controller and remote execution nodes.
- Troubleshooting and maintenance of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
- Discussion of recommended practices to ensure high availability and scalability of a large automation cluster.
Audience for this course
This course is designed for users who need to provide, manage, and maintain Ansible automation infrastructure for their organizations, including these roles:
- Ansible automation engineers and architects
- Linux system administrators supporting automation operations
- DevOps engineers
Automation skills path for Windows administrators
This path is designed for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers who need to automate administration on a Windows Server. No previous experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation or Linux is required.
Automation skills path for Windows administrators
This path is designed for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers who need to automate administration on a Windows Server. No previous experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation or Linux is required.
Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO417)
Course Description
Introduction to performing core system administration tasks by creating and running automation for a Windows Server using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO417) is designed for System administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers who want to learn how to automate the deployment and management of Microsoft Windows servers and applications hosted on them using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
This course is based on Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.
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 classroom, a five day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery.
Course Content Summary
- Writing Ansible Playbooks that automate tasks on Microsoft Windows servers
- Managing Ansible Playbooks stored in a Git-based version control system
- Running Ansible Playbooks by using the automation controller web-based UI
- Managing and ensuring software and Windows features are installed and up-to-date using Ansible automation
- Writing efficient tasks in Ansible Playbooks by using loops, conditional tests, and handlers
- Writing Ansible Playbooks that ensure plays can recover when tasks fail
- Deploying, modifying, and managing files with Ansible on your Windows servers, using completed files and Jinja2 templates
- Managing local and domain users, managing Active Directory domains, and generating dynamic inventory of managed hosts in automation controller based on domain membership
- Automating specific, common Windows Server administration tasks
- Reusing existing automation code by using Ansible Content Collections, Ansible Roles, and Ansible integration with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources
Target Audience
- System administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers who are responsible for automating the deployment and management of Microsoft Windows servers and applications hosted on them using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Introduction to Event-Driven Ansible (DO274)
Course Description
- Introduction to Event-Driven Ansible (DO274) is designed for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and other technical professionals who want to learn how to create, deploy, and configure Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) to run automation code triggered by events sent by supported event sources such as monitoring systems, webhooks, and Apache Kafka. Write Ansible Rulebooks and use them in Event-Driven Ansible controller to react upon events and remediate or resolve infrastructure issues. Learn about key use cases as examples of how to use Event-Driven Ansible in your IT infrastructure.
- This course is based on Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.
Course Content Summary
- Explain what Event-Driven Ansible is, why it is important, and describe its architecture and some of its key use cases and benefits
- Read, write, and test basic Ansible Rulebooks that react to events from various sources
- Explain installation options for Event-Driven Ansible controller and how to install it
- Set up new projects, the automation decision environment, and integration with automation controller so that Event-Driven Ansible controller can launch job templates based on events monitored by Ansible Rulebooks
- Configure and use Event-Driven Ansible to react to events generated by Git operations, such as push notifications or pull requests, and be able to use this to build a GitOps workflow
- Configure Ansible to use network telemetry to automatically respond to events and implement remediation or configuration changes
Target Audience
- This course is designed for system administrators, DevOps engineers, network administrators, and other technical professionals who are responsible for ensuring rapid response to infrastructure or application events and are interested in implementing issue remediation and resolution with automation.
Automation skills path for network administrators
This path is designed for network administrators, network automation engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers with networking and Linux experience.
Automation skills path for Network administrators
This path is designed for network administrators, network automation engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers with networking and Linux experience.
Red Hat System Administration I (RH124)
Course description
The first of two courses covering the core system administration tasks needed to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers
Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) is designed for IT professionals without previous Linux system administration experience. The course provides students with Linux administration competence by focusing on core administration tasks. This course also provides a foundation for students who plan to become full-time Linux system administrators by introducing key command-line concepts and enterprise-level tools.
This course is the first of a two-course series that takes a computer professional without Linux system administration knowledge to become a fully capable Linux administrator. These concepts are further developed in the follow-on course, Red Hat System Administration II (RH134).
This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 9.3.
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 five day in person class, a five day virtual class or is self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery.
Course content summary
- Introduce Linux and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem.
- Run commands and view shell environments.
- Manage, organize, and secure files.
- Manage users, groups and user security policies.
- Control and monitor systemd services.
- Configure remote access using the web console and SSH.
- Configure network interfaces and settings.
- Manage software using DNF
Audience for this course
- The primary persona is a technical professional with current or pending responsibilities as a Linux enterprise or cloud system administrator.
This course is popular in Red Hat Academy, and is targeted at the student who is planning to become a technical professional using Linux.
Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO457)
Course Description
Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO457) is designed for network administrators or infrastructure automation engineers who want to use network automation to centrally manage the switches, routers, and other devices in the organization's network infrastructure. Learn how to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to remotely automate the configuration of network devices, test and validate the current network state, and perform compliance checks to detect and correct configuration drift.
This course is based on Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform 2.3
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 five day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery.
Course summary
- Prepare a development environment for Ansible network automation
- Write and troubleshoot effective Ansible Playbooks for network automation
- Gather information about network infrastructure configuration for infrastructure awareness and configuration backup
- Automate specific network administration use cases, including configuration of routers and switches, ports, VLANs, SNMP monitoring, and routing protocols
- Use Ansible Playbooks to manage devices from various hardware vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, and Arista
- Centrally manage Ansible content in Git and run it centrally with automation controller
- Reuse existing, tested network automation code with Ansible Roles, Ansible Content Collections, and Ansible validated content
Target Audience
This course is designed for network administrators, network automation engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers who are responsible for deploying, managing, and automating the network infrastructure of their organization or enterprise.
Skill builders
Maximise workflow speed and efficiency with Event-Driven Ansible
Learn how you can manage your environment with greater speed and efficiency while freeing up time to deliver better value to the business.
Empowering Your Infrastructure: Enabling Automation Adoption with Red Hat Ansible
Join us to explore the journey from basic automation principles to enterprise-scale deployments and advanced concepts, and discover how, with the right training, you can seamlessly integrate Ansible into your infrastructure for transformative results.
Gain a trusted advisor
A Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM) for Ansible Automation Platform can help you maximise the impact of your automation. Familiar with your IT environment and expert at automation optimisation and risk mitigation, they provide technical expertise and support as you work to empower your teams to tackle complex automation use cases, deploy your software more successfully, and generate increasing business value.
Get end-to-end guidance on your automation journey
As you develop and implement your automation strategy, your TAM will help you:
- Align your automation journey with Red Hat’s product lifecycles and roadmaps.
- Navigate adoption of Ansible Automation Platform add-on technology capabilities such as Event-Driven Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.
- Establish an automation Community of Practice (CoP) to foster collaboration, standardisation, and innovation.
Build automation expertise on the job
Your TAM will work side by side with your teams as they gain automation know-how, providing:
- Customised on-site and virtual workshops for hands-on development of Ansible Automation Platform skills.
- Instruction on how to streamline operations, leverage valuable performance insights, and increase the resilience of your environment.
- Direction on strengthening your security posture using a curated collection of modules, roles, and playbooks to identify and respond to threats.
Optimise your operations and return on investment (ROI)
Your TAM will facilitate delivery of consistent and reliable automation across use cases and domains, accelerating your time to value through:
- Assistance installing and configuring Ansible Automation Platform, speeding up time to a stable production environment.
- Support as your teams implement best practices for automation platform performance, resilience, and security.
- Help automating continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, breaking down barriers between your teams.
Receive dedicated, ongoing support
Acting as both advisor and advocate, your TAM will:
- Hold regular meetings to discuss ongoing concerns like patch requests and security risks that may affect your environment.
- Intervene proactively to resolve or find workarounds for potential automation issues, reducing or eliminating downtime.
- Serve as a bridge to Red Hat internal teams during high-severity incidents to ensure rapid mitigation and keep your mission-critical automation running smoothly.
Hear firsthand from our TAMs how they can accelerate your Ansible Automation Platform adoption:
Ansible Content Creation: Secure Supply Chain
Learn how Ansible Automation Platform can be used to build a secure supply chain by signing Ansible Content Collections, Ansible Execution Environments, and projects that can be used in the Automation controller.
TAM Your Tech
If you would like to find out more how a TAM can help you achieve your business goals and get the most out of the Red Hat Technology, please, book a personalised and free session with a TAM at your convenience.
