RH294 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible

Date/Time
February 17, 2025 - February 21, 2025
09:00 - 17:00

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 system administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2..

Course overview

RH294 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible course is intended for a Linux system administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

You will learn how to install and configure Ansible on a management workstation, prepare managed hosts for automation, write Ansible Playbooks to automate tasks, and run playbooks to ensure servers are correctly deployed and configured.

Through lectures and hands-on labs, students who have already earned the RHCSA certification will be exposed to all competencies covered by the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam.

Course content summary

• Installing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on control nodes.
• Creating and updating inventories of managed hosts and managing connections to them.
• Automating administration tasks with Ansible Playbooks and ad hoc commands.
• Writing effective playbooks at scale.
• Protecting sensitive data used by Ansible Automation Platform with Ansible Vault.
• Reusing code and simplifying playbook development with Ansible Roles and Ansible Content Collections.

Taste of Training

Video title: Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation (RH294) video sneak peek
Source: https://youtu.be/iNs3bVgP2XM

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

Prerequisites for this course

• Pass the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience
• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills: here.

Outline for this course

• Introduce Ansible: Describe the fundamental concepts of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and how it is used, and install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• 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.
• Manage variables and facts: Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
• Implement task control: Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.
• Deploy files to managed hosts: Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.
• Manage complex plays and playbooks: Write playbooks that are optimized for larger,  more complex plays and playbooks.
• Simplify playbooks with roles: Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
• Troubleshoot Ansible: Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
• Automate Linux administration tasks: Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.

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