Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Exam (AU468) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Installing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Explain what Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is and explore installation strategies.

Managing user access

Create user accounts, organize users into teams, and assign roles to administer and access Ansible Automation Platform resources.

Managing inventories and machine credentials

Create inventories of machines to manage, and configure credentials necessary for automation controller's execution nodes to log in and run Ansible jobs on those systems.

Managing projects and launch Ansible jobs

Create projects and job templates in the Ansible Automation Platform unified UI, and use them to launch Ansible Playbooks that are stored in Git repositories, in order to automate tasks on managed hosts.

Configuring advanced job configuration

Configure advanced job template features to more effectively and efficiently implement jobs.

Constructing job workflows

Assemble existing job templates into a sequential, branching workflow that can launch multiple jobs, run jobs to recover from a preceding failure in the workflow, and request user approval before the workflow can be advanced past a certain point.

Managing advanced inventories

Manage inventories that are dynamically generated from external data sources by using plug-ins, or are constructed from a filtered set of hosts in existing inventories.

Automating configuration of Ansible Automation Platform

Automate the configuration and deployment of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services by using Ansible Content Collections, the automation controller API, and Git webhooks.

Maintaining Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Perform routine maintenance and administration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Building a large scale Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment

Scale up your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment by using automation mesh and dispersed execution nodes.

Comprehensive review

Demonstrate skills learned in this course by configuring private automation hub and by configuring and operating a new organization in automation controller using a provided specification, Ansible projects, and hosts to be provisioned and managed.