Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Training Course

 Implementing Ansible Automation Platform

• The functions of the platform gateway, automation controller, private automation hub, and the Event-Driven Ansible controller.
• The role of execution environments and automation mesh within the overall platform architecture.
• Deployment strategies and enterprise-scale topologies, encompassing containerized, RPM-based, and OpenShift Operator methods.
• Preparing the installer inventory and finalizing the installation according to the chosen deployment approach.
• Establishing initial platform access, configuring subscriptions, and navigating the unified interface.

2 Administering User Accounts and Access Permissions

• Establishing organizations, teams, and individual user accounts.
• Comprehending local account management and centralized authentication mechanisms, such as LDAP.
• Implementing built-in roles, resource-specific permissions, and permission inheritance rules.
• Regulating access rights to platform resources and private automation hub content.

3 Administering Inventories and Machine Credentials

• Developing static inventories, defining hosts, grouping them, and associating relevant variables.
• Configuring machine credentials utilizing SSH keys, passwords, and privilege escalation parameters.
• Understanding credential classifications and their application during job execution.
• Controlling administrative and usage rights for inventories and credentials.
• Verifying connectivity to managed hosts using ad hoc commands.

4 Administering Projects and Initiating Jobs

• Linking projects to Git repositories and setting up source control credentials.
• Selecting branches and managing project updates, including the behavior when launching jobs.
• Leveraging execution environments and content delivered via the private automation hub.
• Generating job templates and executing playbooks against managed hosts.
• Analyzing job outputs, execution events, and the activity stream.

5 Utilizing Advanced Job Template Features

• Supplying job inputs via extra variables, launch prompts, and survey mechanisms.
• Configuring host restrictions, fork counts, verbosity levels, job slicing, and fact caching.
• Scheduling automated job executions.
• Establishing notification triggers for job initiation, completion, and failure.

6 Designing Automation Workflows

• Creating workflow job templates using the visual workflow editor.
• Connecting jobs via success, failure, and always-true branching logic.
• Setting up converging paths and recovery procedures for failed operations.
• Incorporating approval nodes and managing approval timeout settings.
• Launching and scheduling workflows, along with configuring workflow notifications.

7 Managing Advanced Inventory Sources

• Importing inventory data from projects housed in Git repositories.
• Integrating dynamic inventory sources via inventory plugins.
• Scheduling inventory synchronization and refreshing data sources prior to execution.
• Building constructed inventories by merging existing sources and filtering hosts using variables and patterns.

8 Automating Platform Configuration

• Managing configuration as code using platform content collections, such as ansible.controller, ansible.platform, and ansible.hub.
• Utilizing REST APIs, authentication tokens, and API calls within playbooks.
• Automating the generation and setup of organizations, projects, and job templates.
• Storing configuration playbooks in Git and triggering automation via webhooks.

9 Platform Maintenance and Troubleshooting

• Overseeing services and identifying logs relevant to the chosen deployment method.
• Diagnosing common platform and job execution errors.
• Employing management jobs to maintain job history and activity stream records.
• Planning and executing backup and recovery procedures.
• Evaluating upgrade requirements and managing subscriptions.

10 Scaling Deployments via Automation Mesh

• Understanding the roles of control, execution, and hop nodes, considering hybrid-node behavior where relevant to the deployment model.
• Connecting nodes through Receptor and designing mesh routes for remote or segmented network environments.
• Managing instance groups, container groups, and execution capacity.
• Applying high-availability principles to platform components, databases, and load balancing strategies.
• Evaluating the impact of node or service failures on automation execution and recovery processes.

11 Comprehensive Platform Administration Review

• Configuring private automation hub content in line with a provided specification.
• Setting up an organization with associated users, teams, inventories, credentials, and Git projects.
• Creating job templates and workflows to satisfy defined operational needs.
• Reviewing access permissions, content availability, and automation execution across the configured environment.