Курс DO409: Automation with Ansible II: Ansible Tower

Course content summary

• Install Red Hat Ansible Tower.
• Configure users and teams to access Ansible Tower resources using role-based access controls.
• Use Ansible Tower to manage shared access to inventories and machine credentials.
• Create job templates and workflow job templates to standardize playbook execution.
• Launch playbooks and monitor and review job results using Ansible Tower.

Outline for this course

• Install and access Ansible Tower
• Explain what Red Hat Ansible Tower is and navigate and use its web user interface.
• Manage access with users and teams
• Create user accounts and organize them into teams in Red Hat Ansible Tower, and assign the users and teams permissions to administer and access resources in the Ansible Tower service.
• Manage inventories and credentials
• Create inventories of machines to manage, and configure credentials necessary for Red Hat Ansible Tower to log in and run Ansible jobs on those systems.
• Manage projects and launch Ansible jobs
• Create projects and job templates in the web UI, using them to launch Ansible playbooks that are stored in Git repositories in order to automate tasks on managed hosts.
• Construct advanced job workflows
• 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.
• Manage advanced inventories
• Manage inventories that are loaded from external files or generated dynamically from scripts or the Ansible Tower smart inventory feature.
• Perform maintenance and routine administration of Ansible Tower
• Demonstrate ability to deliver routine maintenance and administration of Ansible Tower.
• Comprehensive review
• Demonstrate skills learned in this course by configuring and operating a new organization in Ansible Tower using a provided specification, Ansible projects, and hosts to be provisioned and managed.