Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

This course is designed for network administrators, network automation engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers who are responsible for deploying, managing, and automating the network infrastructure of their organization or enterprise.

• Prepare a development environment for Ansible network automation.
• Write and troubleshoot effective Ansible Playbooks for network automation.
• Gather information about network infrastructure configuration for infrastructure awareness and configuration backup.
• Automate specific network administration use cases, including configuration of routers and switches, ports,  LANs, SNMP monitoring, and routing protocols.
• Use Ansible Playbooks to manage devices from various hardware vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, and Arista.
• Centrally manage Ansible content in Git and run it centrally with automation controller.
• Reuse existing, tested network automation code with Ansible Roles, Ansible Content Collections, and Ansible validated content.

• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.
• Experience with network administration, including a solid understanding of TCP/IP, routers, and managed switches.
• Familiarity with managing network devices from the command line, preferably with one or more of Cisco IOS, IOS XR, or NX-OS; Juniper Junos; or Arista EOS.
• Knowledge equivalent to Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) or better is recommended.
  Prior Ansible knowledge is not required.

Red Hat guide book for this course.

Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Describe the fundamental concepts of Ansible and how it is used, and install development tools from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Implementing an Ansible Playbook
Create an inventory of managed nodes, write a simple Ansible Playbook, and run the playbook to automate tasks on those nodes.

Managing and Running Playbooks
Manage automation code in version control and run Ansible Playbooks from a centrally managed automation controller.

Managing Variables and Facts
Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed nodes.

Implementing Task Control
Manage task control and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.

Simplifying Playbooks with Roles and Ansible Content Collections
Use Ansible Roles and Ansible Content Collections to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.

Automating Network Automation Tasks
Automate common network administration tasks, discussing recommended practices and approaches to cross-vendor automation.

Comprehensive Review
Demonstrate skills learned in this course by installing, optimizing, and configuring Ansible for the management of network devices and infrastructure.

Predošlé kurzy

Red Hat System Administration I [RH124]