About the Certificate
A course focused on automating administrative tasks in Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Ansible. The training prepares for large-scale infrastructure management by teaching how to create reusable playbooks, manage managed nodes, automate system configurations, and secure sensitive data.
Acquired Skills
- Ansible and YAML Fundamentals: Installing Ansible, configuring
ansible.cfgfiles, creating inventory files, and writing clean playbooks in YAML. - Creating and Running Playbooks: Writing playbooks to automate administration tasks, handling variables, facts, loops, and conditional statements.
- Security Management: Encrypting and protecting sensitive data, such as passwords and API keys, using
ansible-vault. - Code Structuring: Creating and applying Ansible roles, as well as using pre-built RHEL System Roles to standardize configurations.
- System Task Automation: Automated management of packages, users, services (
systemd), storage, and configuration files. - Error Handling and Event Management: Configuring handlers that respond to changes, along with handling errors and failures during task execution on nodes.