Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO467) is for experienced Ansible automation engineers, DevOps practitioners, and Linux system administrators seeking to deploy, control, and support centralized automation execution on a large scale. Students will use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 to scale up Ansible automation. They will deploy automation controllers to centrally manage automation workflows, automation mesh to scale up and distribute execution capacity, and private automation hub to manage Ansible Content Collections and automation execution environments for use by automation developers. Large scale automation cluster design and approaches to ensure high availability of Ansible Automation Platform will also be discussed. This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

Who Can Benefit

• Ansible automation engineers and architects
• Linux system administrators supporting automation operations
• DevOps engineers

Skills Gained

• Discussion of the architecture of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.
• Installation and configuration of automation controllers and private automation hubs to centrally coordinate and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
• Integration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with centralized Git repository services such as GitLab.
• Management of users, teams, and access permissions in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
• Creation and management of workflows that execute automation based on the success or failure of previous jobs.
• Configuration and management of automation mesh to distribute execution between automation controller and remote execution nodes.
• Troubleshooting and maintenance of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
• Discussion of recommended practices to ensure high availability and scalability of a large automation cluster.

Prerequisites

• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.
• Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience.
• Complete Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374).
• Complete EX374 to achieve Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.

Course Content

Outline for this course

• Install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Manage user access
• Manage inventories and machine credentials
• Manage projects and launch Ansible jobs
• Configure advanced job configuration
• Construct job workflows
• Manage advanced inventories
• Automate configuration of Ansible Automation Platform
• Maintain Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Get insights into automation performance
• Build a large scale Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment
• Comprehensive review