Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AU374)

H46BBS

Course ID

H46BBS

Duration

5 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Overview

This course is designed for automation content developers to leverage the new container-focused tools from Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform. You learn how to efficiently develop automation that can be managed by the automation controller, recommended practices for automation development using reusable code, advanced playbook techniques, shared execution environments, and how to prepare for scalable automation with the automation content navigator.


This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

Course ID

H46BBS

Duration

5 days

Format

ILT/VILT

  • Audience

    This course is ideal for anyone who creates automation content, including developers, DevOps engineers, Linux system administrators, and other IT professionals.

  • Prerequisites

    Before attending this course, you should have the following experience:

    • A basic understanding of how to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment
    • Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or later, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience
  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Leverage capabilities of the 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 plugins
    • Perform automation operations as rolling updates
    • Create automation execution environments to bundle and distribute the dependencies needed to run automation code
  • Certifications and related exams

    This course prepares you for the following certification:

    • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform
  • Course outline

Module 1: Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2

  • How to develop Ansible Playbooks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 following recommended practices

Module 2: Manage Content Collections and Execution Environments

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

Module 3: Run Playbooks with Automation Controller

  • Learn what automation controller is and use it to run playbooks that you developed with automation content navigator

Module 4: Work with Ansible Configuration Settings

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

Module 5: Manage Inventories

  • Managing inventories by using advanced features of Ansible

Module 6: Man Manage Task Execution

  • How to control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks

Module 7: Transform Data with Filters and Plugins

  • Populating, manipulating, and managing data in variables using filters and plugins

Module 8: Coordinate Rolling Updates

  • How to use advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates to minimize downtime and to ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks

Module 9: Create Content Collections and Execution Environments

  • Writing and publishing your own Ansible Content Collections, embedding them in a custom execution environment, and running them in playbooks by using automation controller

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