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Instructor Guide: DO467 Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platfor

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2

Edition 1 20220603

Copyright © 2022 Red Hat

Authors:

  • Michael Philips

  • Karan Rai

  • Alejandra Ramírez Palacios

  • Dallas Spohn

  • Antonio Marí Romero

Editor:

  • David O’Brien

Course Architect:

  • Steve Bonneville

Contributors: David Sacco, Sajith Eyamkuzhy Sugathan, Richard Allred

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Course Timing

ILT

Table 1. Day 1
Activity Time

Introduction

xx minutes

Chapter 1

xx minutes

Chapter 2

xx minutes

Total for day

xx minutes (xx minutes)

Introduction

Overview

Cover introductory material for this class.

Schedule

Table 2. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Introduction content

P: Lecture

2

2

Orientation to the Classroom Environment

P: Lecture

3

3

Performing Lab Exercises

P: Lecture

3

Total Time: 8 minutes

Course Introduction

Objectives

  • Welcome students and provide an orientation to the class, classroom hardware, and facility or VT environment.

Orientation to the Classroom Environment

Objectives

  • Orient students to their classroom hardware and how to access it for upcoming lab exercises.

Performing Lab Exercises

  • Description of lab activity types

Installing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 3. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Explaining the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Architecture

P: Lecture

15

A: Matching Quiz

5

2

Installing Automation Controller and Private Automation Hub

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

2

Initial Configuration of Automation Controller and Private Automation Hub

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Managing User Access

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 4. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Creating and Managing Automation Controller Users

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

1

Managing Automation Controller Access with Teams

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

1

Creating and Managing Users and Groups for Private Automation Hub

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Managing Inventories and Machine Credentials

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 5. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Creating a Static Inventory

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

1

Creating Machine Credentials for Access to Inventory Hosts

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Managing Projects and Launching Ansible Jobs

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 6. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Creating a Project for Ansible Playbooks

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

1

Creating Job Templates and Launching Jobs

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Advanced Job Configuration

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 7. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Improving Performance with Fact Caching

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

2

Creating Job Template Surveys to Set Variables for Jobs

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

3

Scheduling Jobs and Configuring Notifications

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Constructing Job Workflows

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 8. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Creating Workflow Job Templates and Launching Workflow Jobs

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

2

Requiring Approvals in Workflow Jobs

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Managing Advanced Inventories

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 9. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Importing External Static Inventories

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

2

Configuring Dynamic Inventory Plug-ins

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

3

Filtering Hosts with Smart Inventories

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Automating Configuration of Ansible Automation Platform

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 10. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Configuring Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Collections

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

2

Automating Configuration Updates with Git Webhooks

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

3

Launcing Jobs with the Ansible Automation Controller API

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Maintaining Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 11. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Performing Basic Troubleshooting of Automation Controller

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

2

Backing Up and Restoring Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Getting Insights into Automation and Performance

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 12. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Gathering Data for Cloud-based Analysis

P: Lecture

15

A: Quiz

5

2

Getting Insights into Automation Performance

P: Lecture

15

A: Quiz

5

3

Evaluating Performance with Automation and Analytics

P: Lecture

15

A: Quiz

5

4

Producing Reports from Automation Analytics

P: Lecture

15

A: Quiz

5

Building a Large-scale Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Deployment

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Chapter Schedule

Table 13. ILT/VT Schedule
Section Title Presentation and Engagement Methods Time (minutes)

1

Designing a Clustered Ansible Automation Platform Implementation

P: Lecture

15

A: Quiz

5

2

Deploying Distributed Execution with Automation Mesh

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

3

Managing Distributed Execution with Automation Mesh

P: Lecture

15

A: Guided Exercise

15

Comprehensive Review

Chapter Information

A short statement describing the chapter.

Appendix A: Evaluating Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform