Course description
This highly practical instructor led Red Hat 8 System Administration - Part 3: Linux Automation with Ansible training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the concepts and use of Linux Ansible Automation. With a strong emphasis on practical hands-on training using the command line, this course will teach Ansible automation techniques to perform remote administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) based systems.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Who will the Course Benefit?...
Who will the Course Benefit?This Red Hat 8 System Administration - Part 3: Linux Automation with Ansible course is suitable for Linux System Administrators, DevOps teams, Managers and Systems Support personnel who need to understand how to automate, deploy, configure and maintain system configurations from a single point of control.
Course ObjectivesOn completion of this Red Hat 8 System Administration - Part 3: Linux Automation with Ansible course the delegate will have gained practical experience of the skills required to install, configure and use Ansible for the purpose of enterprise orchestration, automation, configuration and management.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Delegates attending this course should have experience of administering Linux in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the pre-requisite courses.
The requirements for this course can be met by any one of the pre-requisite courses listed.
Where Red Hat 8 courses are listed in the Pre-Requisite Courses section equivalent Red Hat 7 courses would also suffice.
Experience to the level as demonstrated in these courses is recommended:
- Red Hat 8 System Administration - Part 2
- FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator
Training Course Content
Red Hat 8 System Administration - Part 3: Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- Ansible in steps
- Ansible Overview
- Installing Ansible on RHEL-based systems
- Installing Ansible on Debian-based systems
- Authenticating Ansible with SSH keys
- Ansible configuration
- Creating the Ansible Inventory
- Ansible client configuration
- Exercise
- Generating an ad-hoc command
- Command line options
- Module documentation
- Using modules with ad-hoc commands
- Verifying Ansible syntax
- stat and shell modules
- Specifying an alternate Inventory
- Exercise
- YAML basics
- Common YAML syntax errors
- Writing YAML with vim
- Installing and configuring code editors
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 5: PLAYBOOKS AND TASKS- What is a playbook
- Playbook header
- Tasks within a playbook
- Importing items and playbooks
- Playbook best practices
- Exercise
- Basic Ansible modules
- file module
- lineinfile module
- copy module
- archive module
- Exercise
- Playbook command line options
- Playbook tags
- System administration modules
- service module
- firewalld module
- user module
- Exercise
- Further Ansible modules
- parted module
- mount module
- cron module
- Security related modules
- seboolean module
- SELinux module
- seport module
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 9: VARIABLES AND FACTS- Simple variables
- List and Dictionary methods
- Defining variable locations
- Variables within external files
- Command line variables
- Ansible prompts
- Registering variables
- Using module return values
- Capturing Ansible failures
- Iteration using lists
- Ansible facts
- Commonly used Ansible facts
- Using facts within a task
- Using conditional statements with Facts
- Exercise
- Ansible roles
- Ansible Galaxy command
- Role directory structure
- Constructing an Ansible Role
- Constructing a File Template
- Ansible Galaxy repository
- Downloading and executing Roles
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 11: FURTHER CONFIGURATION- Ansible Parallelism and Forks
- Fact Caching
- Ansible Vault
- Creating and accessing the Vault
- Encrypting variables
- Ansible client and server logging
- Omitting and redirecting log output
- Error handling and ignoring failed commands
- Handlers and failures
- Exercise
- Ansible loops
- Looping through variables
- Number sequencing
- Random values
- Retries
- Ansible within shell scripts
- Menu driven and copy scripts
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