DO410 - Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower

Overview

Duration: 5 days

Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower (DO410) teaches you how to develop standardized automation of the enterprise IT environment in order to improve operational efficiency. You will learn how to use Ansible for automation, configuration, provisioning, and management, as well as how to use Red Hat® Ansible Tower to centrally manage Ansible at an enterprise scale.

This course combines the content from Automation with Ansible (DO407) and Automation with Ansible II: Ansible Tower (DO409), and is based on Ansible 2.3 and Ansible Tower 3.3.

Objectives

As a result of attending this course, you should be able to write Ansible playbooks and launch them to manage hosts and deploy applications in a scalable way. You should be able to implement an Ansible Tower installation and use it to centrally manage Ansible job execution, monitoring, and access to projects, inventories, and credentials.

You should be able to demonstrate these skills:

Automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible.
Write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution.
Deploy and perform basic maintenance and administration of an Ansible Tower installation.
Control access to Ansible projects, credentials, and other resources through role-based access controls in Ansible Tower.

Content

Introduce Ansible
Deploy Ansible
Implement playbooks
Manage variables and inclusions
Implement task control
Deploy files to managed hosts
Manage large projects
Simplify playbooks with roles
Troubleshoot Ansible
Install and access Ansible Tower
Assign access with users and teams
Set up inventories and credentials
Manage projects and launch Ansible jobs
Construct advanced job workflows
Administer advanced inventories
Perform maintenance and routine administration of Ansible Tower

Audience

This course is designed for professionals responsible for automation of configuration management, application deployment, provisioning and deployment of servers, and integration with DevOps CI/CD workflows, including these roles:

Linux system administrators
DevOps engineers
Infrastructure automation engineers
Systems design engineers

Prerequisites

Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise knowledge and experience
Being a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) may be beneficial

Certification

This course is not associated with any Certification.

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