What you’ll learn
As a result of taking this course, you will learn how to install and manage automation controller, private automation hub, and automation mesh components of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 in order to deploy and operate Ansible automation services for your organisation that you can extend to a larger scale.
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Who is the course for?
This course is designed for users who need to provide, manage, and maintain Ansible automation infrastructure for their organisations, including these roles:
Course subjects
Install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Explain what Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is and perform a basic installation of automation controller and automation hub.
Manage user access
Create user accounts and organise them into teams/groups in automation controller and automation hub, and assign them permissions to administer and access resources in each service.
Manage inventories and machine credentials
Create inventories of machines to manage, and configure credentials necessary for automation controller's execution nodes to log in and run Ansible jobs on those systems.
Manage projects and launch Ansible jobs
Create projects and job templates in the web UI, using them to launch Ansible Playbooks that are stored in Git repositories, in order to automate tasks on managed hosts.
Configure advanced job configuration
Configure advanced Features of automation controller in order to more effectively and efficiently implement jobs.
Construct job workflows
Use advanced features of job templates to improve performance, simplify the customisation of jobs, launch multiple jobs, schedule automatically recurring jobs, and provide notification of job results.
Manage advanced inventories
Manage inventories that are generated dynamically from scripts or the automation controller smart inventory feature.
Automate configuration of Ansible Automation Platform
Automate the configuration and deployment of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services by using Ansible Content Collections, the automation controller API, and Git webhooks.
Maintain Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Perform routine maintenance and administration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Get insights into automation performance
Get information from Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to evaluate the performance of your Ansible automation and identify possible ways to improve it.
Build a large scale Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment
Use high availability techniques and automation mesh to scale up your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment.
Comprehensive review
Demonstrate skills learned in this course by configuring private automation hub and by configuring and operating a new organisation in automation controller using a provided specification, Ansible projects, and hosts to be provisioned and managed.
Prerequisites
THIRD PARTY REGISTRATION
Lumify Work offers certification and training in Enterprise Linux, Ansible, JBoss, OpenShift, OpenStack, and more through our partnership with Red Hat. This arrangement requires Lumify Work to provide your details to Red Hat for course and/or exam registration purposes.
Terms & Conditions
The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.
