Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices exam Training

Prerequisites

• Take Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices (DO447), or possess comparable work experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Ansible, and Ansible Tower
• Take Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation (RH294), or possess comparable work experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ansible
• Review the exam objectives

Skills Gained

• Understand and use Git
• Clone a Git repository
• Update, modify and create files in a Git repository
• Add those modified files back into the Git repository
• Manage inventory variables
• Structure host and group variables using multiple files per host or group
• Use special variables to override the host, port, or remote user Ansible uses for a specific host
• Set up directories containing multiple host variable files for some of your managed hosts
• Override the name used in the inventory file with a different name or IP address
• Manage task execution
• Control privilege execution
• Run selected tasks
• Transform data with filters and plugins
• Populate variables with data from external sources using lookup plugins
• Use lookup and query functions to template data from external sources into playbooks and deployed template files
• Implement loops using structures other than simple lists using lookup plugins and filters
• Inspect, validate, and manipulate variables containing networking information with filters
• Delegate tasks
• Run a task for a managed host on a different host, then control whether facts gathered by that task are delegated to the managed host or the other host
• Install Ansible Tower
• Perform basic configuration of Ansible Tower after configuration
• Manage access for Ansible Tower
• Create Ansible Tower users and teams and make associations of one to the other
• Manage inventories and credentials
• Manage advanced inventories
• Create a dynamic inventory from an identity management server or a database server
• Create machine credentials to access inventory hosts
• Create a source control credential
• Manage projects
• Create a job template
• Manage job workflows
• Create a job workflow template
• Work with the Ansible Tower API
• Write an API scriptlet to launch a job
• Back up Ansible Tower
• Back up an instance of Ansible Tower

Who Can Benefit?

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices exam will be of interest to anyone seeking to demonstrate a broader knowledge and understanding of Ansible best practices, applying Ansible in larger and more complex projects, and using Ansible Tower, including those in these roles:

• Experienced Linux system administrators
• DevOps engineers
• Cloud administrators
• Other IT professionals