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Ansible Basics: Automation Technical Overview

Overview

Course Description

Create, scale, and manage automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

  • Ansible Basics: Automation Technical Overview is a series of free on-demand videos that introduce you to the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Learn configuration management, provisioning, deploying, and managing compute infrastructure across cloud, virtual, and physical environments with Ansible.

Course Content Summary

  • In this Ansible Automation Technical Overview course, you’ll learn how to simplify IT tasks like configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration using Ansible. Presented by Roger Lopez, Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible, this introductory course covers essential Ansible concepts, including modules, tasks, and playbooks. Through real-world examples, you'll explore how Automation Controller fits into automation workflows and how Ansible Automation Platform can be used to manage production environments. 

  • This course is based on Ansible Automation Platform 2.5

Audience for this course

  • IT leaders, administrators, engineers, architects, and anyone else seeking a high-level understanding of Ansible

Recommended training

  • There are no prerequisites for this Technical Overview.

Technology considerations

  • N/A

Outline

Course Outline 

  • Course introduction
  • The automation advantage
  • Ansible basics
  • Ansible variables
  • Ansible constructs
  • Ansible templates
  • Ansible roles
  • Ansible collections
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Ansible workflows
  • Event-driven Ansible overview
  • Next steps

Outcomes

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