Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
The Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO457) course is tailored for network administrators and infrastructure automation engineers. It teaches how to centrally manage network devices like switches and routers using Ansible Automation Platform. You'll learn to automate network configuration, test and validate network states, and perform compliance checks to detect and correct configuration drift.4o
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Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO457) is designed for network administrators or infrastructure automation engineers who want to use network automation to centrally manage the switches, routers, and other devices in the organization's network infrastructure. Learn how to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to remotely automate the configuration of network devices, test and validate the current network state, and perform compliance checks to detect and correct configuration drift.
This course is based on Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform 2.3
Certification
The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Network Automation Exam is a performance-based test used to assess the skills and knowledge to manage network infrastructure using Red Hat® Ansible®.
By passing this exam you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Network Automation
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Course Content
Deploying Ansible
- Preparing to Install Ansible
- Orientation to Lab Activities
- Installing Ansible
- Guided Exercise: Installing Ansible on the Control Node
- Guided Exercise: Identifying Resources for Installed Plug-ins
- Defining Ansible's Scope
- Creating Ansible Inventories
- Guided Exercise: Creating Host Inventories
- Configuring Ansible
- Guided Exercise: Configuring Ansible
Running Commands and Plays
- Executing Ad Hoc Commands
- Guided Exercise: Executing Ad Hoc Commands
- Preparing Ansible Playbooks
- Guided Exercise: Converting an Ad Hoc Command to a Play
- Building a Play with Multiple Tasks
- Guided Exercise: Building a Play with Multiple Tasks
- Composing Playbooks with Multiple Plays
- Guided Exercise: Composing Playbooks with Multiple Plays
Parameterizing Automation
- Defining Variables
- Guided Exercise: Defining and Using Variables
- Controlling Tasks with Loops and Conditions
- Guided Exercise: Controlling Tasks with Loops and Conditions
- Transforming Variable Data with Filters
- Guided Exercise: Looping Over a Filtered List
- Working with Roles
- Guided Exercise: Creating and Using Roles
- Customizing Data with Jinja2 Templates
- Guided Exercise: Generating Config Statements with Jinja2
Administering Ansible
- Ansible in the Enterprise
- Safeguarding Sensitive Data with Ansible Vault
- Guided Exercise: Safeguarding Sensitive Data with Ansible Vault
- Running Plays with Encrypted Data
- Guided Exercise: Running Plays with Encrypted Data
- Protecting Resources with Ansible Vault
- Guided Exercise: Protecting Resources with Ansible Vault
- Creating Inventories Using YAML
- Guided Exercise: Creating Inventories Using YAML
- Generating and Using Dynamic Inventories
- Guided Exercise: Generating and Using Dynamic Inventories
- Centrally Running Ansible with Red Hat Ansible Tower
- Guided Exercise: Navigating the Red Hat Ansible Tower Web Interface
- Guided Exercise: Creating Inventories in Red Hat Ansible Tower
Automating Simple Network Operations
- Gathering Network Information with Ansible
- Guided Exercise: Gathering Facts
- Guided Exercise: Viewing System Settings
- Configuring Network Devices
- Guided Exercise: Backing Up Network Device Configurations
- Configuring the Host Name
- Guided Exercise: Configuring the Host Name
- Configuring System Settings
- Guided Exercise: Configuring System Settings
- Generating Configuration Settings from Jinja2 Templates
- Guided Exercise: Configuring From Templates
- Guided Exercise: Configuring Settings From Templates
- Enabling and Disabling Interfaces
- Guided Exercise: Bouncing an Interface
- Guided Exercise: Bouncing Specified IOS Interfaces
- Reinitializing Layer 3 Interfaces
- Guided Exercise: Reinitializing Layer 3 on VyOS Devices
- Provisioning the Start-up Network
- Guided Exercise: Provisioning the Start-up Network
- Provisioning Spine and Leaf Devices
- Guided Exercise: Provisioning Spine and Leaf Devices
- Setting Parameters with Ansible Tower Surveys
- Guided Exercise: Setting Parameters with Ansible Tower Surveys
Automating Complex Network Operations
- Aggregating Logged Events to Syslog
- Guided Exercise: Aggregating Logged Events to Syslog
- Managing Access Control Lists on IOS
- Guided Exercise: Managing Access Control Lists on IOS
- Enabling SNMP
- Guided Exercise: Enabling SNMP
- Overcoming Real-world Challenges
- Guided Exercise: Provisioning the Consolidation Network
- Implementing Dynamic Routing with OSPF
- Guided Exercise: Implementing Dynamic Routing with OSPF
- Guided Exercise: Verifying End-to-End Reachability
- Implementing OSPF with Multiple Autonomous Systems
- Guided Exercise: Provisioning the Break Up Network
- Implementing Dynamic Routing with EBGP
- Guided Exercise: Implementing Dynamic Routing with EBGP
- Upgrading the Network
- Guided Exercise: Upgrading VyOS
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