Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Training Course

 Installing Ansible Automation Platform

• The functions of the platform gateway, automation controller, private automation hub, and Event-Driven Ansible controller.
• Execution environments and automation mesh within the platform's architecture.
• Deployment strategies and enterprise topologies, covering containerised, RPM-based, and OpenShift Operator methods.
• Preparing the installer inventory and finalising the installation based on the chosen deployment approach.
• Establishing initial platform access, configuring subscriptions, and navigating the unified interface.

Administering users and access permissions

• Establishing organisations, teams, and user accounts.
• Comprehending local accounts and centralised authentication methods, including LDAP.
• Applying native roles, resource permissions, and permission inheritance models.
• Controlling access to platform resources and private automation hub content.

Managing inventories and machine credentials

• Creating static inventories, defining hosts and groups, and setting associated variables.
• Configuring machine credentials using SSH keys, passwords, and privilege-escalation parameters.
• Understanding credential types and their utilisation during job execution.
• Regulating administrative and usage access to inventories and credentials.
• Verifying connectivity to managed hosts via ad hoc commands.

Administering projects and initiating jobs

• Linking projects to Git repositories and setting up source-control credentials.
• Choosing branches and configuring project updates, including update-on-launch settings.
• Utilising execution environments and content distributed via the private automation hub.
• Creating job templates and executing playbooks against managed hosts.
• Analysing job output, execution events, and the activity stream.

Leveraging advanced job template capabilities

• Supplying job inputs via extra variables, launch prompts, and surveys.
• Configuring host restrictions, forks, verbosity levels, job slicing, and fact caching.
• Scheduling automation jobs.
• Setting up notifications for job initiation, completion, and failure.

Building automation workflows

• Creating workflow job templates using the visual workflow editor.
• Connecting jobs through success, failure, and always branches.
• Configuring converging paths and recovery steps for failed operations.
• Incorporating approval nodes and managing approval timeouts.
• Launching and scheduling workflows, and setting workflow notifications.

Managing advanced inventories

• Importing inventory content from projects hosted in Git.
• Integrating dynamic inventory sources via inventory plug-ins.
• Scheduling inventory synchronisation and refreshing sources prior to execution.
• Creating constructed inventories by merging existing sources and filtering hosts using variables and patterns.

Automating platform configuration

• Managing configuration as code using platform content collections, such as ansible.controller, ansible.platform, and ansible.hub.
• Utilising REST APIs, authentication tokens, and API calls within playbooks.
• Automating the creation and configuration of organisations, projects, and job templates.
• Storing configuration playbooks in Git and triggering automation via webhooks.

Maintaining and troubleshooting the platform

• Managing services and locating logs for the specific deployment method.
• Investigating typical platform and job-execution errors.
• Using management jobs to maintain job history and activity-stream data.
• Planning and executing backup and restoration procedures.
• Reviewing upgrade considerations and subscription management.

Scaling deployments with automation mesh

• Understanding the roles of control, execution, and hop nodes, considering hybrid-node behaviour where relevant to the deployment model.
• Connecting nodes via Receptor and designing mesh routes for remote or segmented networks.
• Managing instance groups, container groups, and execution capacity.
• Applying high-availability principles to platform components, databases, and load balancing.
• Assessing the impact of node or service failures on automation execution and recovery.

Comprehensive platform administration review

• Configuring private automation hub content against a provided specification.
• Setting up an organisation including users, teams, inventories, credentials, and Git projects.
• Creating job templates and workflows to satisfy defined operational requirements.
• Reviewing access permissions, content availability, and automation execution across the configured environment.