System and cloud administrators who need to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and other IT needs.

Have a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent experience.

Have a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent experience.

Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to :

• Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts
• Use Ansible to run ad-hoc commands and playbooks to automate tasks
• Write effective Ansible playbooks
• Protect encrypted data needed for tasks with Ansible Vault
• Use Ansible Tower to more easily manage enterprise Ansible deployments
• Work with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant in a DevOps environment

Install Ansible and run ad hoc commands.

Write Ansible plays and execute a playbook.

Describe variable scope and precedence, manage variables and facts in a play, and manage inclusions.

Manage task control, handlers, and tags in Ansible playbooks.

Implement a Jinja2 template.

Create and manage roles.

Configure connection types, delegations, and parallelism.

Manage encryption with Ansible Vault.

Troubleshoot the Ansible control machine and managed nodes.

Troubleshoot the Ansible control machine and managed nodes.

Implement Ansible in a DevOps environment using Vagrant.