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DO467 - Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Why study this course

Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO467) is for experienced Ansible automation engineers, DevOps practitioners, and Linux system administrators seeking to deploy, control, and support centralised automation execution on a large scale. Students will use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 to scale up Ansible automation. They will deploy automation controller to centrally manage automation workflows, automation mesh to scale up and distribute execution capacity, and private automation hub to manage Ansible Content Collections and automation execution environments for use by automation developers. Large scale automation cluster design and approaches to ensure high availability of Ansible Automation Platform will also be discussed.

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

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What you’ll learn

As a result of taking this course, you will learn how to install and manage automation controller, private automation hub, and automation mesh components of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 in order to deploy and operate Ansible automation services for your organisation that you can extend to a larger scale.


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Who is the course for?

This course is designed for users who need to provide, manage, and maintain Ansible automation infrastructure for their organisations, including these roles:

  • Ansible automation engineers and architects.

  • Linux system administrators supporting automation operations.

  • DevOps engineers.


Course subjects

Install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 
Explain what Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is and perform a basic installation of automation controller and automation hub.

Manage user access 
Create user accounts and organise them into teams/groups in automation controller and automation hub, and assign them permissions to administer and access resources in each service.

Manage inventories and machine credentials 
Create inventories of machines to manage, and configure credentials necessary for automation controller's execution nodes to log in and run Ansible jobs on those systems.

Manage projects and launch Ansible jobs 
Create projects and job templates in the web UI, using them to launch Ansible Playbooks that are stored in Git repositories, in order to automate tasks on managed hosts.

Configure advanced job configuration 
Configure advanced Features of automation controller in order to more effectively and efficiently implement jobs.

Construct job workflows 
Use advanced features of job templates to improve performance, simplify the customisation of jobs, launch multiple jobs, schedule automatically recurring jobs, and provide notification of job results.

Manage advanced inventories 
Manage inventories that are generated dynamically from scripts or the automation controller smart inventory feature.

Automate configuration of Ansible Automation Platform 
Automate the configuration and deployment of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services by using Ansible Content Collections, the automation controller API, and Git webhooks.

Maintain Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 
Perform routine maintenance and administration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Get insights into automation performance 
Get information from Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to evaluate the performance of your Ansible automation and identify possible ways to improve it.

Build a large scale Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment 
Use high availability techniques and automation mesh to scale up your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment.

Comprehensive review 
Demonstrate skills learned in this course by configuring private automation hub and by configuring and operating a new organisation in automation controller using a provided specification, Ansible projects, and hosts to be provisioned and managed.


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Lumify Work offers certification and training in Enterprise Linux, Ansible, JBoss, OpenShift, OpenStack, and more through our partnership with Red Hat. This arrangement requires Lumify Work to provide your details to Red Hat for course and/or exam registration purposes.


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