Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible and Exam

Learn how to automate Linux system administration tasks with Ansible

Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with exam (RH295) is designed for Linux® system administrators and developers who need to learn and validate how to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration. You will prove your ability 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.

The Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (EX294) and Red Hat Certified Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) are included in this offering. This offering is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8.

Who Can Benefit

• This course and exam are 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

Skills Gained

• Install and configure Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine on a control node.
• Create and manage inventories of managed hosts, as well as prepare them for Ansible automation.
• Run individual ad hoc automation tasks from the command line.
• Write Ansible Playbooks to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed hosts.
• Parameterize playbooks using variables and facts, and protect sensitive data with Ansible Vault.
• Write and reuse existing Ansible roles to simplify playbook creation and reuse code.
• Automate common Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration tasks using Ansible.

Course Content

• Introduce Ansible
• Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine.

• Deploy Ansible
• Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.

• Implement playbooks
• Write a simple Ansible Playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed 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 large projects
• Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.

• 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.