Ansible Basics: Automation Technical Overview
Course description
Create, scale, and manage automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Ansible Basics: Automation Technical Overview (DO007) is a series of on-demand, online videos that introduce you to the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Learn configuration management, provisioning, deploying, and managing compute infrastructure across cloud, virtual, and physical environments with Ansible.
Course content summary
- Intro to Ansible Automation Platform
- How it works
- Understanding modules, tasks, playbooks
- How to execute Ansible commands
- Using variables and templates
- Automation controller – where it fits in
- Automation controller basics
- Automation controller features – RBAC, workflows
Note: You can view all videos or only the ones that interest you. There are no hands-on labs or course completion recognition associated with this course.
Audience for this course
IT leaders, administrators, engineers, architects, and anyone else seeking a high-level understanding of Ansible and to learn to build Ansible from the ground up.
Prerequisites for this course
- We recommend having basic Linux® system administration skills.
Outline for this course
Course overview: What you can expect to learn in this Technical Overview
Ansible introduction: The benefits of the Ansible Automation Platform
Creating automation: Understanding how Ansible works
Ansible basics: Using Ansible inventories, main Ansible config file, and modules
Playbook basics: Using Ansible plays, tasks and modules, and playbook runs
Ansible variables: Understanding variables, debug module, Ansible facts
Ansible constructs: Using conditionals, handlers, loops
Templating: Building templates, template module, Jinja2
Roles: Understanding what roles are and what they look like, and using Galaxy and Automation Hub
Introduction to automation controller: Operationalizing your automation
Building an automation job: Understanding inventories, credentials, syncing a project, and building a job template
Self-Service IT: Using surveys and building a job template
Role-based access control: Setting access controls for organizations and teams
Workflows: Using workflow visualizer and understanding convergence and divergence
Next steps: Where to learn more about Ansible