Who is this workshop best for?

This workshop is intended for people who want to learn the basics of cloud automation and understand how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can help you orchestrate, operationalize and govern your hybrid cloud environments.

If you have always wanted to know more about cloud automation and Ansible Automation Platform, this workshop is for you. 

Description

Are you new to cloud automation? Join us to learn how Ansible Automation Platform can help you orchestrate, operationalize and govern your hybrid cloud environments. This workshop will primarily focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an example of a public cloud for several use cases. Use cases will include infrastructure visibility, compliance, and infrastructure optimization. 

Find out how Ansible can start helping you tame your hybrid cloud deployments today. 

This workshop requires students to have beginner level knowledge of common public cloud terminology and limited to no knowledge of Ansible.

Agenda

• Infrastructure visibility - In this lab, we will illustrate how we can retrieve Ansible facts (key, value pairs), also known as structured data, from public clouds and how we can use this data to provide us with awareness of our cloud footprint easily.
• Cloud Operations - This lab will illustrate how Ansible Automation Platform can help you automate common day-2 cloud operations tasks across your public cloud. Our focus here will be on AWS, but the use cases here are ones you can extend across the hybrid cloud.
• Infrastructure optimization - In this lab, we will guide you in understanding some basic optimization exercises that can help you tame your public clouds.
• Terraforming Clouds with Ansible (optional)  - In this lab we explore the basics of Terraform and how we can use it to deploy infrastructure. We then take it up a level by introducing Ansible's Automation controller and simplifying the creation of this infrastructure as well as bringing all the important post-provisioning tasks which we all need to do when infrastructure is being configured. This lab will get you creating infrastructure with Terraform and Automation controller in no time.