Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 1 Foundations of Ansible

Introduction

• Prepare for the RHCE EX294 certification
• What you should know
• About the RHCE (EX294) exam
• State of Enterprise Linux
• Install Virtual Box
• CentOS 8 lab setup
• Optimize your VM
• Install Linux from DVD ISO
• Install Linux Guest Additions
• Virtual machine snapshots
• Finish lab set up
• Create a private network in VirtualBox
• Reconfigure or migrate CentOS

1. Introduction to IT Automation

• About IT automation
• Ansible concepts
• About provisioning
• About configuration management
• About app deployment
• About orchestration

2. Getting Started with Ansible

• Host requirements
• Install Ansible on the control node
• Prepare managed nodes
• View Ansible Documentation

3. Setting Up an Ansible Environment

• Build static inventory
• Work with dynamic inventory
• Manage Ansible configuration files

4. Using Ad Hoc Commands

• Introduction to ad-hoc commands
• Targeting hosts with patterns
• Manage files and packages
• Restart servers and services
• Manage users
• Gather data

5. Ansible Command Line Tools

• Manage connection methods
• Use the Ansible command
• View Ansible configuration
• Use the Ansible console
• Show Ansible inventory
• Run Ansible playbooks

Summary

• Next steps