Duration 4 Days – 28 hrs.
Overview
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course is designed to help IT professionals automate Linux system administration, configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure operations using Ansible Automation Platform.
This hands-on course introduces participants to the core concepts of automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Ansible. Participants will learn how to create playbooks, manage inventories, automate repetitive administrative tasks, deploy configurations consistently across servers, and orchestrate enterprise IT operations efficiently.
The course also covers automation best practices, role-based automation, variables, templates, security considerations, and integration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. By the end of the course, participants will be able to build scalable and repeatable automation solutions for enterprise infrastructure management.
Objectives
- Understand automation concepts and Ansible architecture
- Install and configure Ansible environments
- Create and manage inventories for infrastructure automation
- Develop and execute Ansible playbooks
- Automate Linux system administration tasks
- Use variables, facts, conditionals, and loops in playbooks
- Manage files, packages, services, and users using Ansible modules
- Implement reusable automation using roles
- Use Jinja2 templates for dynamic configuration management
- Automate software deployment and configuration management
- Secure automation workflows and manage credentials
- Troubleshoot and optimize Ansible automation tasks
- Apply automation best practices in enterprise environments
Target Audience
- Linux System Administrators
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Administrators
- DevOps Engineers
- Infrastructure Engineers
- Cloud Engineers
- IT Operations Professionals
- Automation Engineers
- Platform Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
- Technical Support Engineers
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of Linux administration
- Familiarity with command-line operations in Linux
- Basic networking knowledge
- Experience managing Linux servers is recommended
- Basic scripting knowledge is helpful but not required
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IT Automation and Ansible
- Overview of IT automation concepts
- Benefits of infrastructure automation
- Introduction to Ansible
- Understanding agentless architecture
- Ansible use cases in enterprise environments
- Overview of Ansible Automation Platform
- Installing and configuring Ansible
Module 2: Ansible Architecture and Components
- Understanding control nodes and managed nodes
- Inventory concepts
- Static and dynamic inventories
- Ansible configuration files
- Understanding modules and plugins
- Ansible collections overview
- Introduction to YAML syntax
Module 3: Managing Inventories and Ad Hoc Commands
- Creating inventory files
- Grouping hosts and variables
- Host patterns and targeting
- Running ad hoc commands
- Managing remote connectivity
- SSH key authentication
- Privilege escalation with sudo and become
Module 4: Creating and Managing Playbooks
- Introduction to playbooks
- Playbook structure and syntax
- Tasks and handlers
- Executing playbooks
- Managing task execution flow
- Error handling in playbooks
- Idempotency concepts
Module 5: Automating System Administration Tasks
- Managing packages
- Managing services
- Managing users and groups
- File and directory management
- Managing permissions and ownership
- Automating scheduled tasks
- Managing repositories and updates
Module 6: Variables, Facts, and Conditionals
- Working with variables
- Variable precedence
- Using Ansible facts
- Registering task outputs
- Conditional task execution
- Loops and iterations
- Dynamic playbook logic
Module 7: Templates and Configuration Management
- Introduction to Jinja2 templates
- Creating dynamic configuration files
- Managing environment-specific configurations
- Template variables and filters
- Deploying templates to managed nodes
- Configuration standardization techniques
Module 8: Using Roles for Reusable Automation
- Understanding Ansible roles
- Creating and organizing roles
- Role directory structure
- Reusing automation components
- Managing dependencies
- Role-based automation design
- Best practices for scalable playbooks
Module 9: Advanced Automation Techniques
- Managing multi-tier deployments
- Delegation and local actions
- Asynchronous tasks
- Tags and selective execution
- Using Ansible Vault for secrets management
- Automating system patching
- Workflow orchestration concepts
Module 10: Security and Compliance Automation
- Automating security configurations
- Managing firewall rules
- SELinux automation basics
- Secure credential handling
- Compliance automation concepts
- Auditing and reporting automation
- Hardening Linux systems using Ansible
Module 11: Troubleshooting and Optimization
- Troubleshooting playbook errors
- Debugging techniques
- Verbose execution modes
- Performance optimization
- Best practices for reliable automation
- Logging and monitoring automation activities
- Maintaining automation code quality
Module 12: Enterprise Automation Best Practices
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
- Version control integration with Git
- CI/CD integration concepts
- Automation governance
- Documentation and change management
- Scaling automation across enterprise environments
- Building enterprise automation strategies
Hands-On Labs and Practical Exercises
- Installing and configuring Ansible
- Creating inventories and playbooks
- Automating Linux administrative tasks
- Managing packages, services, and users
- Building reusable Ansible roles
- Deploying configuration templates
- Automating security configurations
- Using Ansible Vault for secrets management
- Troubleshooting and optimizing automation workflows
- Implementing enterprise automation scenarios
