Red Hat Ansible Network Automation Workshop

Overview

If you’re new to Ansible® Automation, this workshop consists of two parts:

Starting with the basics of understanding foundational command line activities
Applying what you’ve learned to implement Ansible automation controllers to your enterprise use cases. You’ll start off by writing your first Ansible playbook, work on Jinja templates, and implement higher-level Ansible roles. Next you’ll get started on automation controller, understand inventory and credential management, projects, job templates, surveys, workflows and more.

Who should attend

System Admins
Architects
Developers
Technical leads
Operations Engineers

What you will learn

How it works
Understanding modules, tasks, playbooks
How to execute Ansible commands
Using variables and templates
Automation controller - where it fits in
Automation controller basics
Major automation controller features
Role based access controlBAC, workflows

Labs:

Section 1 - Command-line Ansible Exercises

Exercise 1.1 - Check the prerequisites
Exercise 1.2 - The Ansible basics
Exercise 1.3 - Writing your first playbook
Exercise 1.4 - Using variables
Exercise 1.5 - Conditionals, handlers and loops
Exercise 1.6 - Templates
Exercise 1.7 - Roles

Section 2 - Ansible Automation Platform Exercises

Exercise 2.1 - Introduction to automation controller
Exercise 2.2 - Inventories, credentials and ad hoc commands
Exercise 2.3 - Projects & job templates
Exercise 2.4 - Surveys
Exercise 2.5 - Role based access control
Exercise 2.6 - Workflows
Exercise 2.7 - Wrap up

Virtual event details:

Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT

Date: June 22, 2022

Any questions? Please email pjames@redhat.com

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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:
Zoom Meetings
Zoom Meetings
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Date: Thursday, November 1, 2019

Time: X:XX a.m. – X:XX p.m.

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