Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Boot Camp

This course is geared toward Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and developers who are responsible for repeatable tasks such as:

• Automating configuration management
• Ensuring consistent and repeatable application deployment
• Provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers
• Integrating with DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery workflows

• Installing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on control nodes.
• Creating and updating inventories of managed hosts and managing connections to them.
• Automating administration tasks with Ansible Playbooks.
• Writing effective playbooks at scale.
• Protecting sensitive data used by Ansible Automation Platform with Ansible Vault.
• Reusing code and simplifying playbook development with Ansible Roles and Ansible Content Collections.
• Apply recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
• Perform automation operations as rolling updates.
• Use advanced features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to work with data, including filters and plugins.
• Create automation execution environments to contain and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
• Leverage capabilities of the automation content navigator to develop Ansible Playbooks.
• Discussion of the architecture of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.
• Installation and configuration of automation controllers and private automation hubs to centrally coordinate and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
• Integration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with centralized Git repository services such as GitLab.
• Management of users, teams, and access permissions in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
• Creation and management of workflows that execute automation based on the success or failure of previous jobs
• Troubleshooting and maintenance of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
• Discussion of recommended practices to ensure high availability and scalability of a large automation cluster.

Internet access is required for this course in order to access the OpenShift shared and dedicated clusters.

Get started with container technology
Describe how applications can run in containers orchestrated by OpenShift Container Platform.

Create containerized services
Provision a service using container technology.

Manage containers
Manipulate pre-built container images to create and manage containerized services.

Manage container images
Manage the life cycle of a container image from creation to deletion.

Create custom container images
Design and code a Dockerfile to build a custom container image.

Deploy containerized applications on OpenShift
Deploy single container applications on OpenShift Container Platform.

Deploying multi-container applications
Deploy applications that are containerized using multiple container images.

Publish enterprise container images
Interact with an enterprise registry and publish container images to it.

Deploying multi-container applications
Deploy multi-container applications using Helm charts and Kustomize.

Managing application deployments
Monitor application health and implement various deployment methods for cloud-native applications.

Describing the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Describe the architecture of OpenShift Container Platform.

Verify the health of a cluster
Describe OpenShift installation methods and verify the health of a newly installed cluster.

Configuring authentication and authorization
Configure authentication with the HTPasswd identity provider and assign roles to users and groups.

Configuring application security
Restrict permissions of applications using security context constraints and protect access credentials using secrets.

Configuring OpenShift networking for applications
Troubleshoot OpenShift software-defined networking (SDN) and configure network policies.

Controlling pod scheduling
Control the nodes on which a pod runs.

Describing cluster updates
Describe how to perform a cluster update.

Managing a cluster with the web console
Manage a Red Hat OpenShift cluster using the web console.

Moving from Kubernetes to OpenShift
Demonstrate that OpenShift is Kubernetes by deploying Kubernetes-native applications on OpenShift.

Introducing automation with OpenShift
Automate OpenShift using scripts and Ansible playbooks.

Managing OpenShift operators
Manage operators and OpenShift cluster operators.

Implementing GitOps with Jenkins
Implement a GitOps workflow using containerized Jenkins to administer an OpenShift cluster.

Configuring enterprise authentication
Configure OpenShift integration with enterprise identity providers.

Configuring trusted TLS certificates
Configure trusted TLS certificates for external access to cluster services and applications.

Configuring dedicated node pools
Add nodes to an OpenShift cluster with custom configurations.

Configuring persistent storage
Configure storage providers and storage classes to ensure cluster user access to persistent volume resources.

Managing cluster monitoring and metrics
Configure and manage the OpenShift monitoring stack.

Provisioning and inspecting cluster logging
Deploy and query cluster-wide logging, and diagnose common issues using tools.

Recovering failed worker nodes
Inspect, troubleshoot, and remediate worker nodes in a variety of failure scenarios.