Administering Red Hat Linux 8 – Part 3
Course Code: Q5ClaTech257
This course focuses on how to automate Linux systems with Ansible
The course, delivered on CentOS, teaches the skills needed to manage large numbers of systems and applications efficiently and consistently. You will learn the techniques needed to use Ansible® to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.Book a Private Event
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Who is this course for
This course is 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
You will learn how to
- 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.
Prerequisites
Delegates looking to attend this course should be of a Red Hat System Administrator standard and able to perform the core system administration skills required in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.Introduce Ansible
- Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine.
Deploy Ansible
- Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.
Implement playbooks
- Write a simple Ansible Playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed 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 large projects
- Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.
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
Note:
Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves. For questions or confirmation on a specific objective or topic, contact usGet Started
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