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Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO417)
H45ZZS
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Overview
This course teaches you how to automate the deployment and management of Microsoft Windows servers and applications hosted on them using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
This course is based on Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.
Audience
This course is ideal for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers who are responsible for automating the deployment and management of Microsoft Windows servers and applications hosted on them using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Write Ansible Playbooks that automate tasks on Microsoft Windows servers
- Manage Ansible Playbooks stored in a Git-based version control system
- Run Ansible Playbooks by using the automation controller web-based UI
- Manage and ensuring software and Windows features are installed and up to date using Ansible automation
- Write efficient tasks in Ansible Playbooks by using loops, conditional tests, and handlers
- Write Ansible Playbooks that ensure plays can recover when tasks fail
- Deploy, modify, and manage files with Ansible on your Windows servers using completed files and Jinja2 templates
- Manage local and domain users, manage Active Directory domains, and generate dynamic inventory of managed hosts in automation controller based on domain membership
- Automate specific, common Windows Server administration tasks
- Reuse existing automation code by using Ansible Content Collections, Ansible Roles, and Ansible integration with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources
Course outline
| Module 1: Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform |
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| Module 2: Preparing for Ansible Operations |
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| Module 3: Implementing Ansible Playbooks |
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| Module 4: Managing Variables and Facts |
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| Module 5: Installing and Configuring Software |
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| Module 6: Implementing Task Control |
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| Module 7: Deploying Files to Managed Hosts |
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| Module 8: Reusing Code with Ansible Roles and Ansible Content Collections |
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| Module 9: Interacting with Users and Domains |
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| Module 10: Automating Windows Administration Tasks |
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| Module 11: Comprehensive Review |
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