DO 447 Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices

Audience:

This course is designed for users who need to set recommended design patterns and operate automation practices at scale, including these roles: • DevOps engineers • Linux system administrators, developers • Release engineers • Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Prerequisites:

• Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience • Be a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience

Description:

• Investigate recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
• Perform rolling updates with your Ansible Automation operations.
• Use advanced features of Ansible to work with data, including filters and plugins.
• Control applications through their REST API with Ansible Playbooks.
• Implement Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally coordinate and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
• Leverage capabilities of Red Hat Ansible Tower to manage complex automation workflows.
• Implement a CI/CD pipeline for your automation with Git and Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Course Objectives:

Impact on the Organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to leverage and extend the use of an existing Ansible infrastructure across business units in large enterprise environments. These skills are suitable for organizations seeking to increase cost savings and operational efficiency through wider adoption of Ansible in their enterprise.

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 taking this course, you should be able to use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally manage your Red Hat Ansible Automation projects in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprise installations.

You should be able to demonstrate these skills:

• Follow recommended practices to write and manage Ansible Automation.
• Use Git to effectively manage playbooks and inventories as part of a DevOps workflow.
• Control and optimize the performance of task execution by Ansible Playbooks.
• Use filters and plugins to populate, manipulate, and manage data used by Ansible Playbooks.
• Delegate tasks for one managed host to other hosts and manage rolling updates with Ansible.
• Deploy and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles at scale.
• Use the Red Hat Ansible Tower API to launch jobs from existing templates and integrate Red Hat Ansible Tower into a simple CI/CD pipeline.

Recommended for next Course or Exam

• Ansible for Network Automation (DO457)
• Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud (RH415)
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices (EX447)

This course is delivered remotely via our partnership with Sunset Learning.