Advanced Automation with Ansible Best Practice (DO447)

This course is designed for users who need to set recommended design patterns and operate automation practices at scale, including these roles:

DevOps engineers
Linux system administrators, developers
Release engineers
Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to leverage and extend the use of an existing Ansible infrastructure across business units in large enterprise environments.These skills are suitable for organizations seeking to increase cost savings and operational efficiency through wider adoption of Ansible in their enterprise.

Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.

Impact on the individual

As a result of taking this course, you should be able to use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally manage your Red Hat Ansible Automation projects in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprise installations. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:

Follow recommended practices to write and manage Ansible Automation.
Use Git to effectively manage playbooks and inventories as part of a DevOps workflow.
Control and optimize the performance of task execution by Ansible Playbooks.
Use filters and plugins to populate, manipulate, and manage data used by Ansible Playbooks.
Delegate tasks for one managed host to other hosts and manage rolling updates with Ansible.
Deploy and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles at scale.
Use the Red Hat Ansible Tower API to launch jobs from existing templates and integrate Red Hat Ansible Tower into a simple CI/CD pipeline.