Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation

This five day, instructor led Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform certification dives into advanced use of automation workflows with Ansible. It equips professionals with a thorough understanding of Ansible’s architecture and execution strategies, positioning them to leverage advanced features to manage systems more effectively. This certification underpins many industries given the widespread adoption of automation strategies across business processes. Its utilization ranges from simplifying complex software deployment procedures, enabling auto-scaling infrastructure, to implementing efficient system recovery solutions. Understanding and mastering this can provide significant efficiency gains, as well as cost savings, by optimally leveraging automated processes. At the completion of this certification course, participants will be able to:

• Develop Ansible Playbooks with best practices using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, ensuring efficient and scalable automation scripts.
• Utilize and manage Ansible Content Collections and Execution Environments to run playbooks with advanced functionalities.
• Operate playbooks through the Automation Controller, leveraging Automation Content Navigator for optimized automation processes.
• Configure Automation Content Navigator and Ansible runner settings within execution environments to streamline development and address issues.
• Manage complex inventories with advanced features of Ansible, improving the management and scalability of automation tasks.
• Control and optimize the execution of tasks in Ansible Playbooks, achieving better performance and precision in automated environments.
• Employ filters and plugins to transform data, enabling sophisticated data manipulation and variable management within playbooks.
• Implement rolling updates using Ansible’s advanced features, aiming to reduce downtime and maintain simplicity in playbook management.
• Create and publish custom Ansible Content Collections, incorporate them into custom execution environments, and execute them using the automation controller.
• Address real-world automation challenges by applying the learned skills in various scenarios, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of advanced Ansible Automation Platform 2 capabilities.

• Basic understanding of Linux command line navigation and operations.
• Fundamental knowledge of system administration tasks such as software installation and configuration.
• Experience with writing and understanding YAML syntax.
• Prior experience with writing basic Ansible Playbooks and managing inventories.
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git, for source code management.
• Basic comprehension of JSON or similar data serialization formats.
• An understanding of the concepts behind automation and orchestration.

• System Administrators
• IT Automation Professionals
• Cloud Engineers
• Security Engineers
• Network Administrators
• Software Developers interested in automation
• Infrastructure Automation Engineers
• Release Managers
• Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
• Technical Operations team members
• IT Managers overseeing automation strategies
• Professionals preparing for Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam in Ansible Automation

• Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2

• Manage Content Collections and Execution Environments

• Run Playbooks with Automation Controller

• Work with Ansible Configuration Settings

• Manage Inventories

• Manage Task Execution

• Transform Data with Filters and Plugins

• Coordinate Rolling Updates

• Create Content Collections and Execution Environments