Virtual Workshop

Ansible for Windows Automation Workshop

December 17, 20201:00 PM - 3:00 PM(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

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 have 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.

Workshop Topics

  • 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
  • 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

Virtual workshop details

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
Date: December 17, 2020
Any questions? Please email lihoang@redhat.com

Skills Gained

Red Hat Ansible Engine

  • Basic understanding of what Ansible is and how it works with networking devices
  • Running ad-hoc Ansible commands from a command line
  • Building and execution of playbooks to accomplish basic router connectivity
  • Use Case: Backing up network configurations
  • Use Case: Create a GRE tunnel
  • Use Case: Additional router configurations
  • Introduction to Roles: Making playbooks reusable and platform agnostic

Red Hat Ansible Tower

  • Installing Ansible Tower
  • Configuring Ansible Tower
  • Use Case: Creating and running a job template

Who Can Benefit

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

Requirements for Attendees

  • An internet connection is required. 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.

Location
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