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Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Red Hat Learning Subscription Course
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Introduction
Manage complex Red Hat Ansible automation workflows at scale and prevent single points of failure. Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AU467) is for experienced DevOps engineers or Linux system administrators who want to centralize and control their automation execution at scale and privately share Ansible content across their organizations. This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5. The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform exam (EX467) is also included in the offering.
Audience Profile
This course is designed for users who need to provide, manage, and maintain Ansible automation infrastructure for their organizations, including these roles:
- Ansible automation engineers and architects
- Linux system administrators supporting automation operations
- DevOps engineers
Pre-requisites
- Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®)on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, or demonstrate equivalent Ansible experience
- Complete Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AU374).
- Complete EX374 to achieve Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platformon Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Course Objectives
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 organization that you can extend to a larger scale.
Course Content
| Session 1: Installing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform |
| Explain what Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is and explore installation strategies. |
| Session 2: Managing user access |
| Create user accounts, organize users into teams, and assign roles to administer and access Ansible Automation Platform resources. |
| Session 3: Managing 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. |
| Session 4: Managing projects and launch Ansible jobs |
| Create projects and job templates in the Ansible Automation Platform unified UI and use them to launch Ansible Playbooks that are stored in Git repositories, in order to automate tasks on managed hosts. |
| Session 5: Configuring advanced job configuration |
| Configure advanced job template features to more effectively and efficiently implement jobs. |
| Session 6: Constructing job workflows |
| Assemble existing job templates into a sequential, branching workflow that can launch multiple jobs, run jobs to recover from a preceding failure in the workflow, and request user approval before the workflow can be advanced past a certain point. |
| Session 7: Managing advanced inventories |
| Manage inventories that are dynamically generated from external data sources by using plug-ins or are constructed from a filtered set of hosts in existing inventories. |
| Session 8: Automating 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. |
| Session 9: Maintaining Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform |
| Perform routine maintenance and administration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. |
| Session 10: Building a large-scale Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment |
| Scale up your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment by using automation mesh and dispersed execution nodes. |
| Session 11: Comprehensive review |
| Demonstrate skills learned in this course by configuring private automation hub and by configuring and operating a new organization in automation controller using a provided specification, Ansible projects, and hosts to be provisioned and managed. |
Associated Certifications and Exam
The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform exam tests your ability to use advanced features of Ansible Automation Platform to deploy automation at scale using automation controller, automation hub and automation mesh.
By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform that also counts towards earning a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®).
Objectives listed for this exam are based on the most recent Red Hat product version available.
Audience for this exam
The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform exam will be of interest to anyone seeking to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of managing large and complex projects and using Ansible automation controller and Ansible automation hub including:
- Experienced Linux system administrators
- DevOps engineers
- Cloud administrators
- Other IT professionals
Prerequisites for this exam
- Take Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (AU294), or possess comparable work experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ansible Automation Platform
- Take Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AU374), or possess comparable work experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ansible Automation Platform
- Take Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AU467), or possess comparable work experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible Automation Platform, automation hub, and automation controller.
- Review the exam objectives
Upon completion of courses within a Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS), Red Hat issues digital badges and certificates of attendance. These are recognized as official proof of completion.
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