![Ansible Tutorial for Beginners [RHCE EX294 Exam]](/ansible-tutorial/ansible.jpg)
This tutorial covers all of the topics you need to know about to become an Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) on RHEL 8 and higher. As you may have heard, Red Hat applied a major switch to the RHCE program with the introduction of RHEL 8. Instead of covering advanced Linux topics, which was done in the previous versions, RHCE 8 is all about data center automation with Ansible. With the set of topics provided in this tutorial you can plan for RHCE EX294 Exam for Red Hat Ansible Automation.
We will start from scratch by first of all setting up your own Lab Environment as believe me, it is not the same without hands on. You can find the list of topics which we will cover through out this tutorial so Happy Learning.
- Getting Started with Ansible
- Ansible Architecture
- Pre-requisites to setup ansible
- Installing Ansible
- Configuring Ansible
- Ansible configuration file (ansible.cfg)
- Using Ansible ad-hoc commands
- Ansible inventory files
- Working with managed nodes without python
- Working with managed nodes with password (not passphrase)
- Jinja2 templates and syntax
- Ansible facts
- Ansible variables and data types
- YAML syntax in ansible playbooks
- Introduction to ansible playbooks
- Use Visual Code Studio to write playbooks (GUI)
- Using operators in Ansible
- Ansible conditional statements
- Ansible handlers
- Repeating tasks with Ansible loop
- Using Ansible tags
- Ansible block and rescue (error recovery)
- Working with include and import module in Ansible
- Ansible roles
- Create your first Ansible role
- Ansible vaults
- Example - AWS provisioning with Ansible
