Introduction

The Red Hat Certified Engineer Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices is a performance-based test of your knowledge and skill in managing multiple systems using Red Hat Ansible Engine and Red Hat Ansible Tower.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices, which also counts toward becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

The Red Hat Certified Engineer Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices exam is a performance-based test of your knowledge and skill in managing multiple systems using Red Hat® Ansible® Engine and Red Hat Ansible Tower.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices, which also counts toward becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

Objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Use Git effectively for managing Ansible automation code and repositories
• Manage inventory variables and structure host/group variable files efficiently
• Control and optimize task execution in Ansible playbooks
• Apply filters, plugins, and lookups to transform and manipulate data
• Implement advanced delegation techniques for distributed task execution
• Install, configure, and manage Red Hat Ansible Tower
• Manage users, teams, inventories, and credentials in Ansible Tower
• Create and manage projects, job templates, and workflows
• Use Ansible Tower API for automation and job execution
• Perform backup and maintenance of Ansible Tower environments
• Apply best practices for scalable automation using Ansible Engine

Target Audience

This course is designed for users who need to set recommended design patterns and operate automation practices at scale,

including these roles:

• DevOps engineers
• Linux system administrators, developers
• Release engineers
• Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine to automate, provision, configure and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Outlines

Day 1: Git & Inventory Management

Understand and use Git
Clone a Git repository
Modify, update, and manage files in Git
Commit and push changes to repository
Manage inventory variables
Structure host and group variables
Override inventory settings using special variables
Manage multiple host variable files

Day 2: Task Execution & Data Management

Manage task execution
Control privilege escalation
Run selected tasks
Transform data using filters and plugins
Use lookup plugins to fetch external data
Template data into playbooks
Implement loops with advanced structures
Inspect and manipulate network-related variables

Day 3: Delegation & Ansible Tower Installation

Delegate tasks to different managed hosts
Control fact gathering in delegated tasks
Install Ansible Tower
Perform initial configuration of Ansible Tower
Basic system setup and validation

Day 4: Access, Inventories & Projects Management

Manage Ansible Tower users and teams
Configure role-based access control
Manage inventories and credentials
Create dynamic inventories (LDAP/DB sources)
Create machine and source control credentials
Manage projects and source repositories
Create job templates

Day 5: Workflows, API & Backup

Create job workflow templates
Manage and automate job workflows
Work with Ansible Tower API
Write API scripts to launch jobs
Backup and restore Ansible Tower
Best practices for enterprise automation