Red Hat Ansible for Windows Automation Workshop

Overview

Who is this workshop best for?

This instructor-led workshop is intended for people who want to learn the basics of Ansible Automation including Ansible Tower to automate Windows environments. This hands-on workshop details utilizing Windows modules with Ansible Playbooks, authoring playbooks using Visual Studio Code, commit and push playbooks to a git repository and then later automating them with Ansible Tower.

Join if you never tried Red Hat Ansible Automation for Windows environments.

Who Can Benefit?

This workshop is geared toward windows administrators, cloud administrators, DevOps engineers, security professionals and anyone interested in windows automation.

Requirements for attendees

Attendees must come with a laptop with admin rights and the ability to SSH to a lab environment hosted in a public cloud.
Attendees should have working knowledge of using SSH and command line shell (BASH) as well as a conceptual understanding of linux system administration (how to use simple commands like cd, ls, mv, mkdir, etc).
Attendees should have working knowledge of at least one Linux text editor (nano, pico, vi/vim, zile, emacs) with which to write Ansible playbooks.

Agenda

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast & Registration
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	MORNING SESSIONS What is Ansible and The Ansible Way How Ansible Works and its Key Components Ansible Tower Demo Hands-on: Configuring Ansible Tower Hands-on: Ad-hoc commands in Tower
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	LUNCH
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	AFTERNOON SESSIONS Hands-on: Writing Your First playbook Hands-on: Creating and Running a Job Template Hands-on: Using Variables, Loops, and Handlers Hands-on: Roles - Making your playbooks reusable Wrap Up

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Agenda

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.	Breakfast & registration
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	MORNING SESSIONS What is Ansible and The Ansible Way How Ansible Works and its Key Components
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	MORNING SESSIONS Ansible Tower Demo Hands-on: Configuring Ansible Tower Hands-on: Ad-hoc commands in Tower
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	LUNCH
1:00 - 2:15 p.m.	Hands-on: Writing Your First playbook Hands-on: Creating and Running a Job Template
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Break
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	AFTERNOON SESSIONS Hands-on: Using Variables, Loops, and Handlers Hands-on: Roles - Making your playbooks reusable Wrap Up
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Bonus discussions

Event Details

Location:
Ottawa Marriott Hotel
100 Kent Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5R7

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019

Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

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Speaker

PATRICK TOAL
Sr. Solutions Architect

Patrick is a Sr. Solutions Architect with Red Hat Canada with a 20 year background working with Open Source technologies and communities. Prior to joining Red Hat, he spent over 15 years with a major Networking company helping cable operators build and deploy large-scale networks and systems. He is a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, and is excited to be evangelizing the benefits of automation.