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Manual configuration slows down IT. This course equips Linux administrators and DevOps professionals with the skills to automate system provisioning, application deployment, and orchestration using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Participants will learn how to write and manage scalable playbooks, secure data, and reuse automation code across environments to boost operational efficiency.
Learning Outcomes:
Install and configure Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Write and manage Ansible playbooks for task automation
Apply variables, roles, and facts to streamline automation
Protect sensitive data using Ansible Vault
Troubleshoot automation issues and optimise playbook performance
Key Topics:
Core Ansible concepts and inventory management
Playbook development and task control
Using roles and content collections for modular code
File deployment and configuration automation
Common system admin tasks with Ansible
Troubleshooting and workflow optimisation
(1) Introduce Ansible
Describe the fundamental concepts of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and how it is used, and install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
(2) Implement an Ansible playbook
Create an inventory of managed hosts, write a simple Ansible playbook, and run the playbook to automate tasks on those hosts.
(3) Manage variables and facts
Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
(4) Implement task control
Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.
(5) Deploy files to managed hosts
Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible playbooks.
(6) Managing complex plays and playbooks
Write playbooks for larger, more complex plays and playbooks.
(7) Simplify playbooks with roles
Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
(8) Troubleshoot Ansible
Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
(9) Automate Linux administration tasks
Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.
Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves.
