RedHat Ansible Tower Management

• Students should understand Ansible Tower to manage their existing Ansible projects, playbooks
• Ansible Tower Features
• Orientation to the Ansible Tower Web Interface
• Installation of Ansible Tower
• Ansible Tower Web Interface
• Resources like Templates, Credentials, Projects & Inventories etc
• Creating Users and Teams for Role-Based Access Control
• Creating & Managing Ansible Tower Users
• User Types & Organization Role
• Creating & Managing Inventories & Credentials
• Overview of GitHub
• Install and Configure Git
• Overview of Dynamic Inventories

Course Content

 Module1: Introduction to Ansible Tower

• Overview of Ansible
• Introduction to Ansible Tower
• Ansible Tower Features
• Ansible Tower Setup

Module 2:Installing Ansible Tower

• Installation Steps of Ansible
• Overview of Ansible Setup, AD-Hoc Commands and running Playbook
• Installation of Ansible Tower
• Orientation to the Ansible Tower Web Interface

 Module3: Ansible Tower Web Interface

• Overview of Tower Dashboard
• Resources like Templates, Credentials, Projects & Inventories etc
• Practice Lab Session – Running a job to update a content in a file
• Practice Lab Session – Running a job to restart a service

Module4:Creating Users and Teams for Role-Based Access Control

• Overview of RBAC
• Creating & Managing Ansible Tower Users
• Various User Types
• Organization Rol

Module5: Creating & Managing Inventories & Credentials

• Creating a Static Inventory
• Creating Machine Credentials for Access to Inventory Hosts
• Credential Types
• Practice Lab Session

Module6:GitHub

• Overview of GitHub
• Install and Configure Git
• Create a GitHub Account
• Creating a local Git Repository
• Push the files from local Git Repository to remote GitHub Repository
• Pull the from GitHub Repo to Local repo
• Managing Ansible Projects using Git
• Practice Lab Session

Module7: Dynamic Inventory

• Overview of Dynamic Inventories
• Configuring a Dynamic Inventory for AWS EC2 Environment
• Creating AWS Credentials on Tower
• Practice Lab : Sync to update Inventory for newly added EC2 hosts or decommissioned servers

Who this course is for:

• IT professionals who use Ansible and need to centrally manage their Ansible projects

Requirements

• PC or Laptop with internet Connection
• Solid familiarity with Ansible, Ansible playbook is required
• RHCSA in RHEL or equivalent Linux system administration skills recommended