This course is intended for Linux system administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration. Students learn how to install and configure Ansible on a management workstation and prepare managed hosts for automation. Students write Ansible Playbooks to automate tasks, and run them to ensure servers are correctly deployed and configured. This course provides examples of automating common Linux system administration tasks.

Course objectives: Automate common Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration tasks by using Ansible. Install and configure automation content navigator from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to run Ansible Playbooks in a container-based automation execution environment. Create and manage inventories of managed hosts, and prepare the hosts for connections from Ansible. Write effective Ansible Playbooks.