Linux Redhat Administration III - Automation Ansible-RHEL8

About Linux Redhat Administration III - Automation Ansible-RHEL8

Linux Exam EXAM-294 with Ansible Sample Practice Exams - OS Version 8

Linux Certified System Administrator Exam (EX-200 - 2.5 Hours Required), there are two course modules as shown below.

_Linux System Administration I - SA1 (First part)_

_Linux System Administration II - SA2 (Second part)_

Linux Certified Engineer (EXAM294 - 4 Hours Required) [ First & Second part is required to complete this course. ]

_Linux System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible == > This Course Module will teach you this module._

Course Description:

_Linux System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294)_

Introduction

What is Ansible?

Ansible Limitations

Ansible Architecture

Overview of Ansible Setup

Quiz1

Ansible Installation

Installing Ansible

Guided Exercise

Deploying Ansible

Ansible Components - Ansible Configuration - Host Inventory - Core Modules - Custom Modules - Playbooks - Connection Plugins

Ansible Host Inventories

Guided Exercise: Building an Ansible Inventory

Customizing Ansible

Managing Ansible Configuration files

AD HOC Commands With Ansible

Syntax of Ad Hoc Command

Ansible Modules

Ansible Command-line Options

Idempotent behavior of Ansible Modules

Guided Exercise

Implementing Playbooks

Overview of Playbook Syntax

Writing and Running Playbooks

Lab - Write a Simple Playbook, User Creation task

Guided Exercise - Web Server Installation

Guided Exercise - Multiple Tasks

Managing Variables & Facts in Ansible

Overview of variables in Ansible

Lab-Managing Variables

Hosts & Group variables

Lab on Host & Group Variables

Ansible Facts

Managing Secrets

Ansible Vault Command

Lab - Edit, encrypt, decrypt, and view files

Guided Exercise - 1

Guided Exercise - 2

Implementing Task Control

Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.

Task Iteration with Loops

Lab - Simple Loops, Loops over a List of Hashes

Lab - with_items, with_file

Lab - using register variables with loops

Lab - Running tasks Conditionally using when statement

Lab - when statement using ansible facts

Lab - Testing multiple conditions using when statement

Lab - "in" keyword

Lab - Combining Loops & Conditional Tasks

Lab - Combining Conditionals & Register Varaibles

Ansible Handlers

Lab - Ansible Handlers

Handling Task Failures

Managing task errors in plays - ignore_errors

Specifying task failure Conditions

failed_when keyword

changed_when keyword

Guided Exercise

Deploying files to managed hosts

Describing files modules

Lab - copy & fetch modules

Lab - lineinfile & blockinfile modules

Lab - modify file attributes such as SELinux Context

Lab - stat module

Guided Exercise

Deploying Custom files with Jinja2 Templates

Overview of Jinja Templates

Control Structure - using loops, variables

Lab - for, loop.index variable, if else in Jinja2 Templates

Guided Exercise

Configuring Parallelism

About Parallelism in Ansible

Managing rolling updates - serial keyword

Guided Exercise - Forks Parameter

Guided Exercise - Serial Keyword

Including & Importing Files

Overview of Importing & Including files

Import_playbook & import_tasks

define variables using import_tasks

Include_tasks and its comparison with import_tasks

Guided Exercise

Simplifying Playbooks with Roles

Ansible Roles

Create Ansible Roles

Lab: Simplifying Playbooks with Roles

Troubleshooting Ansible

Log Files for Ansible

The Debug Module

Managing Errors : --syntax-check, --step, --list-tasks, --start-at-tasks

Debugging

Using check mode as a Testing Tool

check_mode

Guided Exercise

Last Lecture

Bonus

Linux EX294 with Ansible Sample Practice Exams - OS Version 8