Formation Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and exam

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

Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374) 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 course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0.

Objectif opérationnel : 

Savoir utiliser Red Hat Ansible pour l’automatisation avancée.

Objectifs pédagogiques : 

Concrètement, à l'issue de cette formation Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible, vous aurez les connaissances et les compétences nécessaires pour :

• Apply recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible
• Perform automation operations as rolling updates
• Use advanced features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to work with data, including filters and plugins
• Create automation execution environments to contain and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation
• Leverage capabilities of the automation content navigator to develop Ansible Playbooks

Public :

Ce cours Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible (RHCS) s'adresse aux profils suivants :

• 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

Prérequis :

Pour suivre cette formation Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible (RHCS), il est nécessaire d'avoir assisté au préalable à la formation Red Hat System Administration III : Linux Automation (RH294).
Vous devez également être en possession de la certification Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) sous Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, ou avoir démontré une expérience équivalente sur Ansible.

Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2

Manage Content Collections and Execution Environments

Run Playbooks with Automation Controller

Work with Ansible Configuration Settings

Manage Inventories

Manage Task Execution

Transform Data with Filters and Plugins

Coordinate Rolling Updates

Create Content Collections and Execution Environments

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®).

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