Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower Course Overview

In this hands-on labs course, you will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, and manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault. You will also learn how to deploy and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles; perform basic maintenance and administration of the Ansible Tower installation; and configure users and teams and use them to control access to systems, projects, and other resources through role-based access controls. After completing this course you will learn to use the following:

• Ansible Tower's visual dashboard to launch, control, and monitor Ansible jobs
• Ansible Tower application programming interface (API) to launch jobs from existing templates
• Automatically schedule Ansible jobs
• Dynamically update host inventories

The audience for this course

This course is designed for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, and network administrators who want to automate configuration management, application deployment, and intraservice orchestration at an enterprise scale.