Course Overview

Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices (DO447) is for experienced Red Hat® Ansible® Automation users who want to take their Ansible skills to the next level, enabling scalable design and operation of Ansible Automation in the enterprise. You will explore better ways to automate tasks and use Red Hat Ansible Engine effectively, as well as how to leverage advanced features of Ansible to perform more complex tasks. You will also learn how to install and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally coordinate your use of Ansible, control access to hosts and systems, and manage Ansible workflows through the web interface and the Red Hat Ansible Tower API.

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation (Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 / Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 8.

Who Should Attend

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

Learning Outcomes

• 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.

Course Outline

Module 1: Develop with recommended practices

Module 2: Manage inventories

Module 3: Manage task execution

Module 4: Transform data with filters and plugins

Module 5: Coordinate rolling updates

Module 6: Install and access Red Hat Ansible Tower

Module 7: Manage access with users and teams

Module 8: Manage inventories and credentials

Module 9: Manage projects and launching Ansible jobs

Module 10: Construct advanced job workflows

Module 11: Communicate with APIs using Ansible

Module 12: Manage advanced inventories

Module 13: Create a simple CI/CD pipeline with Ansible Tower

Module 14: Maintain Ansible Tower

Module 15: Perform a comprehensive review

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