Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation (RH294)

This course is geared toward Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers who are responsible for these tasks:

Automating configuration management
Ensuring consistent and repeatable application deployment
Provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers
Integrating with DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery workflows

Impact on the organization

IT automation is key to managing large numbers of systems and applications efficiently and consistently at scale. This course develops the skills needed to efficiently operate and more easily scale the organization’s dynamic IT infrastructure, accelerate application time to value, and rapidly adapt and implement needed innovation through DevOps practices.

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 attending this course, you should be able to use Ansible for the purpose of automation, configuration, and management. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:

Install and configure Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine on a control node.
Create and manage inventories of managed hosts, as well as prepare them for Ansible automation.
Run individual ad hoc automation tasks from the command line.
Write Ansible Playbooks to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed hosts.
Parameterize playbooks using variables and facts, and protect sensitive data with Ansible Vault.
Write and reuse existing Ansible roles to simplify playbook creation and reuse code.
Automate common Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration tasks using Ansible.