Course: RH294: Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation
Course: RH294: Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation
Automation
Overview
Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation (RH294) is designed for Linux® system
administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application
deployment, and orchestration. You will learn how to install and configure Ansible® on a management
workstation; prepare managed hosts for automation; write Ansible Playbooks to automate tasks; and
run playbooks to ensure servers are correctly deployed and configured.
This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat® Ansible Engine 2.8.
This course is geared toward Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure
automation engineers, and systems design engineers who are responsible for these tasks:
Pass the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200), or demonstrate equivalent Red
Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience
Course Outline
Introduce Ansible
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Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine.
Deploy Ansible
Implement playbooks
Write a simple Ansible Playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed hosts.
Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference
information about managed hosts.
Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.
Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
Troubleshoot Ansible
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Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (EX294)
IT automation is key to managing large numbers of systems and applications efficiently and consistently
at scale. This course develops the skills needed to efficiently operate and more easily scale the
organization's dynamic IT infrastructure, accelerate application time to value, and rapidly adapt and
implement needed innovation through DevOps practices.
As a result of attending this course, you should be able to use Ansible for the purpose of automation,
configuration, and management. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:
• Install and configure Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine on a control node.
• Create and manage inventories of managed hosts, as well as prepare them for Ansible
automation.
• Run individual ad hoc automation tasks from the command line.
• Write Ansible Playbooks to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed
hosts.
• Parameterize playbooks using variables and facts, and protect sensitive data with Ansible Vault.
• Write and reuse existing Ansible roles to simplify playbook creation and reuse code.
• Automate common Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration tasks using Ansible.
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