Курс DO447: Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices

Course content summary

• Investigate recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
• Perform rolling updates with your Ansible Automation operations.
• Use advanced features of Ansible to work with data, including filters and plugins.
• Control applications through their REST API with Ansible Playbooks.
• Implement Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally coordinate and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
• Leverage capabilities of Red Hat Ansible Tower to manage complex automation workflows.
• Implement a CI/CD pipeline for your automation with Git and Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Outline for this course

• Develop with recommended practices
• Demonstrate and implement recommended practices for effective and efficient use of Ansible for automation.
• Manage inventories
• Use advanced features of Ansible to manage inventories.
• Manage task execution
• Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.
• Transform data with filters and plugins
• Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plugins.
• Coordinate rolling updates
• Minimize downtime and ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks by using the advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates.
• Install and access Red Hat Ansible Tower
• Explain what Red Hat Ansible Tower is and demonstrate a basic ability to navigate and use its web user interface.
• Manage access with users and teams
• Create user accounts and organize them into teams in Red Hat Ansible Tower, then assign the users and teams permissions to administer and access resources in the Ansible Tower service.
• Manage inventories and credentials
• Create inventories of machines to manage, then configure credentials necessary for Red Hat Ansible Tower to log in and run Ansible jobs on those systems.
• Manage projects and launching Ansible jobs
• Create projects and job templates in the web UI, using these tools to launch Ansible Playbooks that are stored in Git repositories in order to automate tasks on managed hosts.
• Construct advanced job workflows
• Use advanced features of job templates to improve performance, simplify customization of jobs, launch multiple jobs, schedule automatically recurring jobs, and provide notification of job results.
• Communicate with APIs using Ansible
• Interact with REST APIs with Ansible Playbooks and control Red Hat Ansible Tower using its REST API.
• Manage advanced inventories
• Administer inventories that are loaded from external files or generated dynamically from scripts or the Ansible Tower smart inventory feature.
• Create a simple CI/CD pipeline with Ansible Tower
• Build and operate a proof-of-concept CI/CD pipeline based on Ansible Automation and integrating Red Hat Ansible Tower.
• Maintain Ansible Tower
• Perform routine maintenance and administration of Red Hat Ansible Tower.
• Perform a comprehensive review
• Demonstrate skills learned in this course by configuring and operating a new organization in Ansible Tower using a provided specification, Ansible projects, and hosts to be provisioned and managed.