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The Red Hat Linux Automation with Ansible and exam (RH295) course provides expertise to Linux system administrators and developers to automate configuration and key tasks.

Overview

Learn how to automate Linux system administration tasks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible and exam (RH295) is designed for Linux system administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

The Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam (EX294) is included in this offering. This offering is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 9 and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

Skills Covered

  • Install Ansible / Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes.
  • Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them.
  • Automate administration tasks with Ansible Playbooks and ad hoc commands.
  • Write effective playbooks at scale.
  • Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault.
  • Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles and Ansible Collections

Prerequisites

Have completed the following courses:

Target Audience

This course and exam are 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

Course Curriculum

Course Outline

  • Introduce Ansible: Describe the fundamental concepts of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and how it is used, and install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
  • Implement an Ansible playbook: Create an inventory of managed hosts, write a simple Ansible playbook, and run the playbook to automate tasks on those hosts.
  • Manage variables and facts: Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
  • Implement task control: Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.
  • Deploy files to managed hosts: Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.
  • Manage complex plays and playbooks: Write playbooks that are optimized for larger,  more complex plays and playbooks.
  • Simplify playbooks with roles: Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
  • Troubleshoot Ansible: Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
  • Automate Linux administration tasks: Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.

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Exam & Certification

Red Hat Certified Engineer.

A Red Hat® Certified Engineer (RHCE®) is a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) who is ready to automate Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® tasks, integrate Red Hat emerging technologies, and apply learned automation skills for efficiency and innovation.

If you do not wish to attempt the certification exam, please opt for RH294: Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible instead.

Training & Certification Guide

The performance-based Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (EX294) tests your knowledge and skill in managing multiple systems using Red Hat® Ansible® Engine and executing common system administration tasks across a number of systems with Ansible. The skills tested in this exam are the foundation for system administration across many Red Hat products.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Engineer. An RHCE® is a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) who is ready to use Ansible and scripting to automate Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® tasks, integrate Red Hat emerging technologies, and apply automation for efficiency and innovation. RHCSA certification is required to earn RHCE certification. If you choose to continue your learning journey beyond RHCE, the credential can also serve as a foundational step on your path toward our highest level of certification—Red Hat Certified Architect.

This exam is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 8 and Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8.

As an RHCE exam candidate, you should be able to handle all responsibilities expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, including these tasks:

Be able to perform all tasks expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator

  • Understand and use essential tools
  • Operate running systems
  • Configure local storage
  • Create and configure file systems
  • Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
  • Manage users and groups
  • Manage security

Understand core components of Ansible

  • Inventories
  • Modules
  • Variables
  • Facts
  • Plays
  • Playbooks
  • Configuration files
  • Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands

Install and configure an Ansible control node

  • Install required packages
  • Create a static host inventory file
  • Create a configuration file
  • Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts
  • Manage parallelism

Configure Ansible managed nodes

  • Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
  • Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
  • Validate a working configuration using ad hoc Ansible commands

Script administration tasks

  • Create simple shell scripts
  • Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands

Create Ansible plays and playbooks

  • Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules
  • Use variables to retrieve the results of running a command
  • Use conditionals to control play execution
  • Configure error handling
  • Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state

Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks that work with:

  • Software packages and repositories
  • Services
  • Firewall rules
  • File systems
  • Storage devices
  • File content
  • Archiving
  • Scheduled tasks
  • Security
  • Users and groups

Work with roles

  • Create roles
  • Download roles from an Ansible Galaxy and use them

Use advanced Ansible features

  • Create and use templates to create customized configuration files
  • Use Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive data

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.

Red Hat encourages you to consider taking Red Hat System Administration I (RH124), Red Hat System Administration II with exam (RH135), and Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) to help prepare. Attendance in these classes is not required; students can choose to take just the exam.

While attending Red Hat classes can be an important part of your preparation, attending class does not guarantee success on the exam. Previous experience, practice, and native aptitude are also important determinants of success.

Many books and other resources on system administration for Red Hat products are available. Red Hat does not endorse any of these materials as preparation guides for exams. Nevertheless, you may find additional reading helpful to deepen your understanding.

This hands-on, practical exam requires you to use Red Hat Ansible Engine to perform real-world tasks. You will be provided with multiple systems and will be required to install and configure Ansible Engine and then use it to perform standard system administration tasks similar to what you would do on the job.

You will be required to create Ansible Playbooks and use those playbooks to configure systems for specific roles and behaviors. Your work will be evaluated by applying the playbooks created during the exam against freshly installed systems and verifying that those systems and services work as specified.

During the exam, you will be provided a list of tasks to accomplish related to the exam objectives. In most cases, the tasks will be described in terms of a specific end state that you must achieve. Your exam will be evaluated on whether your systems meet the criteria specified.

Internet access is not provided during the exam, and you will not be permitted to bring any hard copy or electronic documentation into the exam. This prohibition includes notes, books, or any other materials. For most exams, the documentation that ships with the product is available during the exam.

This exam can also be taken virtually as part of our remote testing format. Find out more about remote exams to see if this is the right choice for you.

  • Bring operational efficiency by removing manual processes through automation.
  • Easily scale the organization’s dynamic IT infrastructure.
  • Accelerate application time to value.
  • Rapidly adapt and implement needed innovation through DevOps practices.

You will be able to apply automation first principles to solve real-world Linux system and services problems through the effective creation of Ansible playbooks and application of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. You will gain the skills to automate your workflows, build the foundation for DevOps practices, and learn how to leverage Ansible Automation Platform for developmental efficiencies.

RH319: Red Hat Virtualization with exam

Red Hat Virtualization with exam (RH319) teaches and validates the skills needed to deploy, administer, and operate virtual machines in your organization using Red Hat® Virtualization. Through numerous hands-on exercises, you will demonstrate the ability to deploy and configure the Red Hat Virtualization infrastructure and use it to provision and manage virtual machines.

RH342: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting course (RH342) provides system administrators with the tools and techniques they need to successfully diagnose, and fix, a variety of potential issues. Students will work through hands-on problems in various subsystems to diagnose and fix common issues.

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.

RH362: Red Hat Security: Identity Management and Active Directory Integration

The Red Hat Security: Identity Management and Active Directory Integration (RH362) course provides the skills to configure and manage IdM, the comprehensive Identity Management solution bundled with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux.

RH403: Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration

The Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403) is a lab-based course that explores the concepts and methods necessary for successful large-scale management of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® systems.

RH415: Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual and Cloud

The Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud (RH415) course is designed for security administrators and system administrators who need to manage the secure operation of servers running Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, whether deployed on physical hardware, as virtual machines, or as cloud instances.

RH436: Red Hat High Availability Clustering

The Red Hat® High Availability Clustering (RH436) course provides intensive, hands-on experience with the Pacemaker component of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux High-Availability Add-On, as well as cluster storage components from the Resilient Storage Add-On, including Cluster Logical Volume Manager (CLVM), Red Hat Global File System 2 (GFS2), and Device-Mapper Multipath.

 

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