Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374)

Develop Ansible Playbooks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 following recommended practices.

Run playbooks that use content collections not included in ansible-core, either from an existing execution environment or by downloading them from the automation hub.

Explain what automation controller is and use it to run playbooks that you developed with automation content navigator.

Examine and adjust the configuration of Ansible and automation content navigator to simplify development and to troubleshoot issues.

Manage inventories by using advanced features of Ansible.

Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.

Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plugins.

Use advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates in order to minimize downtime and to ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks.

Create projects and job templates in the web UI, using these tools to launch Ansible Playbooks that are stored in Git repositories in order to automate tasks on managed hosts.

Use advanced features of job templates to improve performance, simplify customization of jobs, launch multiple jobs, schedule automatically recurring jobs, and provide notification of job results.

Write your own Ansible Content Collections, publish them, embed them in a custom execution environment, and run them in playbooks by using automation controller.

Administer inventories that are loaded from external files or generated dynamically from scripts or the Ansible Tower smart inventory feature.