A Red Hat® Automation with Ansible is able to perform the following tasks:

• 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 Ansible playbooks at scale.
• Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault.
• Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles.

This course is designed for Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers. The curriculum is particularly geared toward those responsible for automation of configuration management; consistent and repeatable application deployment; provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers; and integration with DevOps CI/CD workflows.

In preparation to earn the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat recommends the following training modules:

• Red Hat System Administration I (RH124)
• Red Hat System Administration II (RH134)

Certification Exam : Test your skills and knowledge

 EX200 – Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam

• The performance-based Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) tests your knowledge and skill in areas of system administration common across a wide range of environments and deployment scenarios. You must be an RHCSA to earn a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification.

Introduction to 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.
    Comprehensive review
    Demonstrate skills learned in this course by installing, optimizing, and configuring Ansible for the management of managed hosts.