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Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible (DO417) teaches you how to automate administration on Windows Server to enable your DevOps workflow.

Overview

Learn how to automate administration on Windows Server to enable your DevOps workflow

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. You will also learn to use Red Hat® Ansible Tower to securely manage and run your Ansible playbooks from a central web-based user interface.

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8, Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5, and Windows Server 2016 and 2019.

Skills Covered

  • Configure Microsoft Windows systems to be managed with Ansible.
  • Create and manage inventories of managed hosts and provide credentials to manage them to Red Hat Ansible Tower.
  • Write Ansible playbooks to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed hosts.
  • Run individual ad hoc automation tasks and complex playbooks from Red Hat Ansible Tower.
  • Create survey forms in Red Hat Ansible Tower to simplify playbook operation.
  • Parameterize playbooks using variables and facts.
  • Write and reuse existing Ansible roles to simplify playbook creation and reuse code.
  • Leverage existing PowerShell DSC code to extend the power of Ansible automation.
  • Automate common Windows Server system administration tasks using Ansible.

Prerequisites

Windows Server administrators interested in automating management tasks and in using automation tools to implement their DevOps workflow.

Target Audience

Windows Server administrators interested in automating management tasks and in using automation tools to implement their DevOps workflow.

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

  • Describe the fundamental concepts of Ansible and how it is used, and install development tools from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Module 2: Preparing for Ansible Operations

  • Prepare Microsoft Windows hosts for Ansible automation and automation controller to run automation on those hosts

Module 3: Implementing Ansible Playbooks

  • Write a simple playbook to automate tasks on multiple Microsoft Windows-based hosts, and then run the playbook with automation controller

Module 4: Managing Variables and Facts

  • Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts

Module 5: Installing and Configuring Software

  • Install, manage, and ensure software is up to date using Ansible Playbooks.Install, manage, and ensure software is up to date using Ansible Playbooks

Module 6: Implementing Task Control

  • Manage task execution using loops, conditional tests, and handlers, and recover when tasks fail

Module 7: Deploying Files to Managed Hosts

  • Deploy, modify, and manage files on your managed hosts

Module 8: Reusing Code with Ansible Roles and Ansible Content Collections

  • Write playbooks that are optimized for larger and more complex projects and that reuse existing automation code

Module 9: Interacting with Users and Domains

  • Manage local and domain users and Active Directory domains on managed hosts, and generate a dynamic inventory of managed hosts in automation controller based on domain membership

Module 10: Automating Windows Administration Tasks

  • Automate common Windows Server administration tasks

Module 11: Comprehensive Review

  • Review tasks from Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Training & Certification Guide

Effective use of Red Hat Ansible Automation for the Windows IT infrastructure helps improve operational agility while ensuring necessary security, consistency, and repeatability of management operations. In conjunction with training on Linux and network automation from Red Hat, cross-platform automation solutions managed from a single pane of glass become feasible.

You will write and run Windows automation tasks using Red Hat Ansible Automation in a Windows environment. You will perform common administrative tasks, write Ansible projects from your Windows workstation, store the history of all changes in a Git-based version control system, and run and troubleshoot those tasks from the web interface of Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) provides similar training for a Linux environment, with some Linux experience (at the Red Hat Certified System Administrator level) required.

Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO457) offers similar training for network administrators automating management of routers and switches, with some network administration experience strongly recommended.

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