Automation with Ansible (DO407)

Through hands-on labs, students will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, centrally manage playbooks and schedule recurring execution through a web interface with Red Hat® Ansible Tower. Students will also learn to manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault, deploy Ansible Tower and use it to manage systems, and use Ansible in a DevOps environment with Vagrant.

Course content summary:

Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts

Use Ansible to run ad-hoc commands and playbooks to automate tasks

Write effective Ansible playbooks

Protect encrypted data needed for tasks with Ansible Vault

Use Ansible Tower to more easily manage enterprise Ansible deployments

Work with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant in a DevOps environment

RHCSA in Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification or equivalent experience

System and cloud administrators needing to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and other IT needs

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Ansible Automation (EX407, EX407K) exam

The performance-based Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation exam (EX407) tests your ability to use Ansible to automate the configuration of systems and applications.

Automation with Ansible II: Ansible Tower (DO409)

Designed for IT professionals who use Ansible and need to centrally manage their Ansible projects in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprise installations using Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to implement Ansible in an operations or cloud computing environment. These skills are suitable for organizations seeking to gain cost savings and operational efficiency by implementing the DevOps methodology with Ansible.

Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.

Impact on the individual

As a result of attending this course, students should be able to implement Ansible for the purpose of automation, configuration, and management in a DevOps environment.

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Use Ansible to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts.
• Write Ansible Playbooks to standardize task executions.
• Manage playbook execution centrally, using Ansible Tower.