Automation With Ansible II: Ansible Tower DO409

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Course Overview

Red Hat Ansible DO409 certification training will equip your team with necessary skills that will enable them to use and deploy Ansible Tower to manage and improvise the existing, roles, playbooks and Ansible projects. They’ll be capable of configuring users and teams; controlling access to projects, systems, and other recourses via role-based access controls; performing basic maintenance and administration for the Ansible Tower installation. Automation with Ansible DO409 course uses authorized course content developed by Red Hat and will be delivered by Red hat certified instructor.Your team will also learn to use the Ansible Tower application programming interface (API) to launch jobs from existing templates and automatically schedule Ansible jobs and update the host inventory and to use the visual dashboard to centrally launch, control, and monitor Ansible jobs.

This Ansible DO409 course is intended to develop the skills needed to leverage and extend the use of an existing Ansible infrastructure across business units in large enterprise environments. These skills are suitable for organizations seeking to increase cost savings and operational efficiency through wider adoption of Ansible automation in their enterprise

At the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Installation of Ansible Tower 
  2. Configuration of  teams and users for role-based access control to Tower resources
  3. Perform basic maintenance and administration of an Ansible Tower installation
  4. Integrate Ansible playbook execution with other CI/CD tools using the Ansible Tower API
  5. Configure users and teams to access Ansible Tower resources using role-based access controls
  6. Managing machine credentials and shared access to inventories by using Ansible Tower
  7. Creating workflow job templates to standardize playbook execution
  8. Launching & monitoring playbooks and reviewing job results using Ansible Tower

Pre-requisite

  1. Successfully completed Automation with Ansible I (DO407) or equivalent experience with Ansible, Ansible playbooks, and roles
  2. Have Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or equivalent Linux system administration skills

Duration

2 days

Course Outline

  1. Introduce and review the course.
  1. Explain what Ansible Tower is and demonstrate a basic ability to navigate and use its web user interface.
  1. Create user accounts and organize them into teams that can be used in conjunction with role-based access control to manage administration and access to organization resources in Ansible Tower.
  1. Create inventories of machines to manage and set up credentials that will allow Ansible Tower to run jobs on those systems.
  1. Create basic projects and job templates in Ansible Tower that can be used to run Ansible playbooks in order to provision and configure managed systems.
  1. Use additional features of job templates to improve workflows by creating simple job launch forms, templates to launch multiple jobs in sequence, and to report job success or failure through external notification systems
  1. Use advanced techniques to work with inventories, including dynamic generation of inventories from centralized information sources and monitoring of hosts in an inventory for configuration deviations or differences.
  1. Perform routine maintenance and administration on Ansible Tower and get a basic familiarity with the command line tools and Ansible Tower API.
  1. Demonstrate skills learned in this course by using a provided specification to configure and operate a new organization in Ansible Tower with certain users and teams, an inventory of hosts to manage, and an Ansible project containing playbooks and other supporting files.

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