Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

This course is designed for users who create automation content, including these roles:

- Developers

- DevOps engineers

- Linux system administrators

- Other IT professionals with some experience using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

• Use the capabilities of automation content navigator to develop Ansible Playbooks.
• Apply recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
• Use advanced features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to work with data, including filters and plug-ins.
• Perform automation operations as rolling updates.
• Create automation execution environments to bundle and distribute the dependencies needed to run automation code.

Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2

Develop Ansible Playbooks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 by following recommended practices.

Manage Ansible Content Collections and Automation Execution Environments

Run playbooks that use content collections not included in ansible-core, either from an existing execution environment or by downloading them from the automation hub.

Run Playbooks with Automation Controller

Explain what automation controller is and demonstrate how to use it to run playbooks that you developed with automation content navigator.

Work with Ansible Configuration Settings

Examine and adjust the configuration of Ansible and automation content navigator to simplify development and to troubleshoot issues.

Manage Inventories

Manage inventories by using advanced features of Ansible.

Manage Task Execution

Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.

Transform Data with Filters and Plug-ins

Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plug-ins.

Coordinate Rolling Updates

Use advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates in order to minimize downtime and to ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks.

Create Ansible Content Collections and Automation Execution Environments

Write your own Ansible Content Collections, publish them, embed them in a custom automation execution environment, and run them in playbooks by using automation controller.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294)
• Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 or later, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform exam (EX374)

Continue building automation skills with:

• Red Hat Services Management and Automation (RH358)
• Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO467)
• Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible (DO417)
• Ansible for Network Automation (DO457)

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop skills to:

• Distribute automation throughout your organization with the use of reusable code.
• Create easily scalable automation for larger enterprise environments with the new, containerized architecture.

Impact on the individual

• Use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to develop automation in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprises. In this course you will gain the skills to effectively manage and optimize playbooks, create and share automation execution environments and collections, and learn how to use automation content navigator for managing the automation lifecycle.