Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower
Course overview
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.
Course Duration
5 Days
Cost
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
Course Content
Introducing Ansible
○ Overview of Ansible
○ Ansible Architecture
○ Installing Ansible
Deploying Ansible
○ Building an Ansible Inventory
○ Managing Ansible Configuration file
○ Running Ad Hoc Commands (with lab Practice)
○ Managing Dynamic Inventories
Implementing Playbooks
○ Writing and Running Playbooks (with guided exercise)
○ Implementing Multiple Plays (with guided exercise)
Managing Variables and Inclusions
○ Managing Variables (with guided exercise)
○ Managing Facts (with guided exercise)
○ Managing Inclusions (with guided exercise)
Implementing Task Control
○ Constructing Flow Control (with guided exercise)
○ Implementing Handlers (with guided exercise)
○ Implementing Tags (with guided exercise)
○ Handling Errors (with guided exercise)
Implementing Roles
○ Describing Role Structure
○ Creating Roles (with guided exercise)
○ Deploying Roles with Ansible Galaxy (with guided exercise)
Implementing Ansible Vault
○ Configuring Ansible Vault (with guided exercise)
○ Executing with Ansible Vault (with guided exercise)
Introduction to Ansible Tower
○ Overview of Ansible Tower
○ Orientation to the Ansible Tower Web Interface
Creating and Managing Inventories and Credentials
○ Creating Static Inventory (with guided exercise)
○ Create Machine Credentials for Access to Inventory Hosts (with guided exercise)
Managing Projects for Provisioning with Ansible Tower
○ Managing Ansible Project Materials Using Git
○ 1Create Job Templates and Launch Jobs (with guided exercise)