Red Hat - Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices

Duration

Duration:

Only 5 Days

Method

Method:

Classroom / Online / Hybrid

Next date

Next date:

24/6/2024 (Monday)

Overview

On this accelerated Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices (DO374) course is designed for automation content developers to leverage the new, container focused tools from Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform to efficiently develop automation that can be managed by the automation controller. Learn recommended practices for automation development using reusable code, advanced playbook techniques, shared execution environments, and preparing for scalable automation with the automation content navigator.

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

In just 5 days, you’ll learn how 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.

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the RedHat exam, and achieve your Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

 

Audience

This course is ideal for:

  • Users who create automation content, including these roles:
    • Developers
    • DevOps engineers
    • Linux system administrators
    • Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Benefits

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need:

  • Intensive group instruction
  • One-on-one instruction attention
  • Hands-on labs
  • Lab partner and group exercises
  • Question and answer drills
  • Independent study

Curriculum

Module 1: Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2

  • Develop Ansible Playbooks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 following recommended practices.

 

Module 2: Manage Content Collections and Execution Environments

  • Run 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

  • Explain 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

  • Manage inventories by using advanced features of Ansible.

 

Module 6: Manage Task Execution

Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.

 

Module 7: Transform Data with Filters and Plugins

  • Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plugins.

 

Module 8: Coordinate Rolling Updates

  • Use advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates in order to minimize downtime and to ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks.

 

Module 9: Create Content Collections and Execution Environments

  • Write your own Ansible Content Collections, publish them, embed them in a custom execution environment, and run them in playbooks by using automation controller.

Exam Track

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll achieve your Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices Certification.

What's Included

Your accelerated course includes:

  • Accommodation *
  • Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
  • On-site exams **
  • Exam vouchers **
  • Practice tests **
  • Certification Guarantee ***
  • Courseware
  • Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
  • 24-hour lab access
  • Digital courseware **
  • * For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
  • ** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
  • *** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Prerequisites

Before attending this accelerated course, you should:

  • Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or later, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience

Unsure whether you meet the prerequisites? Don’t worry. Your training consultant will discuss your background with you to understand if this course is right for you.

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