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Overview
Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices (DO447) is for experienced Red Hat® Ansible® Automation users who want to take their Ansible skills to the next level, enabling scalable design and operation of Ansible Automation in the enterprise. You will explore better ways to automate tasks and use Red Hat Ansible Engine effectively, as well as how to leverage advanced features of Ansible to perform more complex tasks. You will also learn how to install and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally coordinate your use of Ansible, control access to hosts and systems, and manage Ansible workflows through the web interface and the Red Hat Ansible Tower API.
Objectives
At the end of Advanced Automation: Red Hat Ansible Best Practices training course, participants will be able to
Prerequisites
- Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience
- Be a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience
Course Outline
- Implementing loops and conditionals for dynamic task execution.
- Utilizing blocks, handlers, and error handling for robust playbooks.
- Understanding the architecture of Ansible modules.
- Developing custom modules to meet specific automation needs.
- Profiling and tuning Ansible playbooks for optimal performance.
- Implementing strategies to reduce execution time and resource usage.
- Designing Ansible architectures for large-scale deployments.
- Implementing Ansible Tower/AWX for centralized management.
- Connecting Ansible with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
- Integrating Ansible with cloud platforms and other IT tools.
