Red Hat’s enterprise IT automation solution that includes everything needed to build, deploy, and manage end-to-end automation at scale.

Built on a powerful, agentless framework, Ansible Automation Platform is engineered to help organizations create, manage, and scale their automation workloads. It offers a flexible, stable, and security-focused foundation for deploying end-to-end automation solutions—from IT processes, to hybrid cloud, to edge locations.

Overview

Advance your Ansible skills and develop automation that scales by applying recommended practices with the new, container focused tools from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

This Red Hat Ansible course is designed for automation content developers to leverage the new, container focused tools from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to efficiently develop automation that can be managed by the automation controller. Learn recommended practices for automation development using reusable code, advanced playbook techniques, shared execution environments, and preparing for scalable automation with the automation content navigator.

This DO374: Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5.

Skills Covered

  • Use the capabilities of automation content navigator to develop Ansible Playbooks.
  • Apply recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
  • Use advanced features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to work with data, including filters and plug-ins.
  • Perform automation operations as rolling updates.
  • Create automation execution environments to bundle and distribute the dependencies needed to run automation code.

Prerequisites

Target Audience

This course is designed for users who create automation content, including these roles:

  • Developers
  • DevOps engineers
  • Linux system administrators
  • Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2

  • Develop Ansible Playbooks following recommended practices with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.

Module 2: Manage Content Collections and Execution Environments

  • Run playbooks that use content collections not included in ansible-core, either from an existing execution environment or by downloading them from the automation hub.

Module 3: Run Playbooks with Automation Controller

  • Use the automation controller to run playbooks that you developed with automation content navigator.

Module 4: Work with Ansible Configuration Settings

  • Examine and adjust the configuration of automation content navigator and the Ansible runner inside execution environments to simplify development and troubleshoot issues.

Module 5: Manage Inventories

  • Manage inventories by using advanced features of Ansible.

Module 6: Manage Task Execution

  • Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.

Module 7: Transform Data with Filters and Plugins

  • Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plugins.

Module 8: Coordinate Rolling Updates

  • Use advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates in order to minimize downtime and ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks.

Module 9: Create Content Collections and Execution Environments

  • Write your own Ansible Content Collections, publish them, embed them in a custom execution environment, and run them in playbooks by using the automation controller.

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Exam & Certification

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform.

A Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform is capable of performing these tasks:

  • Using Git to manage collections of playbooks
  • Manage task execution
  • Create, download, install and use content collections
  • Create, download, install and use execution environments
  • Manage inventories, credentials, advanced inventories
  • Manage automation controller

Training & Certification Guide

This course is intended to develop skills to:

  • Distribute automation throughout your organization with the use of reusable code.
  • Create easily scalable automation for larger enterprise environments with the new, containerized architecture.

Use the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to develop automation in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprises. In this course you will gain the skills to effectively manage and optimize playbooks, create and share execution environments and collections, as well as learn how to use the automation content navigator for managing the automation lifecycle.

RH358: Red Hat Services Management and Automation

Red Hat Services Management and Automation (RH358) is designed for IT professionals with some experience managing Linux® systems and want to learn more about how to manage and deploy network services included with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux which are particularly important in the modern IT data center.

DO417: Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible

Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible (DO417) is designed for Windows Server professionals without previous Ansible® experience. You will use Ansible to write automation playbooks for Microsoft Windows systems to perform common system administration tasks reproducibly at scale.

DO457: Ansible for Network Automation

Red Hat Ansible for Network Automation (DO457) is designed for network administrators or infrastructure automation engineers who want to use network automation to centrally manage the switches, routers, and other devices in the organization’s network infrastructure.

Exam description

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform exam tests your ability to create Ansible playbooks to perform common system administration tasks.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform that also counts towards earning a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®).

This exam is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0

Audience for this exam

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform exam will be of interest to anyone seeking to demonstrate a broader knowledge and understanding of Ansible best practices, applying Ansible in larger and more complex projects, and using Ansible automation controller and Ansible automation hub including:

  • Experienced Linux system administrators
  • DevOps engineers
  • Cloud administrators
  • Other IT professionals

You should be able to accomplish the following grouped tasks without assistance:

Understand and use Git
  • Clone a Git repository
  • Create, modify and push files in a Git repository
Manage inventory variables
  • Structure host and group variables using multiple files per host or group
  • Use special variables to override the host, port, or remote user for a specific host
  • Set up directories containing multiple host variable files for managed hosts
  • Override names used in inventory files with a different name or IP address
Manage task execution
  • Control privilege execution
  • Run selected tasks from a playbook
Transform data with filters and plugins
  • Populate variables with data from external sources using lookup plugins
  • Use lookup and query functions to incorporate data from external sources into playbooks and deployed template files
  • Implement loops using structures other than simple lists using lookup plugins and filters
  • Inspect, validate, and manipulate variables containing networking information with filters
Delegate tasks
  • Run a task for a managed host on a different host
  • Control whether facts gathered by a task are delegated to the managed host or the controlling host
Manage content collections
  • Create a content collection
  • Install a content collection
  • Publish a content collection
Manage execution environments
  • Build an execution environment
  • Run playbooks in a execution environment
  • Upload execution environments into automation hub
  • Using execution environments in automation controller
Manage inventories and credentials
  • Manage advanced inventories
  • Create a dynamic inventory from an identity management server or a database server
  • Create machine credentials to access inventory hosts
  • Create a source control credential
Manage automation controller
  • Run playbooks in automation controller
  • Pull content into automation controller from either Git or automation hub
  • Pull an execution environment from automation hub and run a playbook in it

Frequently Asked Questions

If you are an IT professional who wants to demonstrate mastery of Ansible, knowledge of Ansible Controller, and an understanding of Ansible best practices, or a Red Hat Certified Engineer pursuing a Red Hat Certified Architect credential you may be interested in becoming a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform.

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