In-Person Event

Red Hat Ansible Network Automation Workshop

March 22, 2022Jacksonville, Florida8:30 AM - 1:00 PM ET

Overview

The Red Hat® Ansible® Network Automation Workshop is a hands-on workshop covering both Ansible and Ansible Tower. Attendees will learn how to use Ansible to automate network operations, and acquire the skills needed to implement Ansible and Ansible Tower at their organizations.

Join our technical experts from Ansible by Red Hat and Presidio on March 22nd for a one-day, hands-on workshop. This workshop will be in-person at the Presidio office. Bring your laptops for the lab exercises during this training. We will be providing a continental breakfast and lunch onsite for attendees.

Note: In this workshop, attendees will be managing network devices, such as Cisco routers.

Skills Gained

  • Intro: What is Ansible Automation
  • How Ansible works for network automation
  • Explore the lab environment
  • Execute your first network automation playbook
  • Use Ansible facts on network devices
  • Use Jinja to template network configurations
  • Explore the Ansible Tower environment
  • Create an Ansible job template
  • Create an Ansible Survey
All attendees at in-person Red Hat events must be masked, except when eating/drinking. All attendees must be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.

Course Details

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.

Event Details


Location: 
Presidio Office
8647 Baypine Road Building 1, Suite 100
Jacksonville, Florida  32256


Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Time: 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET

Registration/Breakfast 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Workshop Session 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
 

Learn more about Ansible workshops

If you have any questions please email sflahert@redhat.com.

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