Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Training Course

1 Installing Ansible Automation Platform

• The functions of the platform gateway, automation controller, private automation hub, and Event-Driven Ansible controller.
• Execution environments and automation mesh within the platform architecture.
• Deployment strategies and growth or enterprise topologies, including containerised, RPM-based, and OpenShift Operator approaches.
• Preparing the installer inventory and completing the installation for the selected deployment method.
• Initial platform access, subscription configuration, and navigation of the unified interface.

2 Managing users and access permissions

• Creating organisations, teams and users.
• Understanding local accounts and centralised authentication options such as LDAP.
• Applying built-in roles, resource permissions, and permission inheritance.
• Managing access to platform resources and private automation hub content.

3 Managing inventories and machine credentials

• Creating static inventories, hosts, groups, and associated variables.
• Configuring machine credentials with SSH keys, passwords, and privilege-escalation settings.
• Understanding credential types and how credentials are used during job execution.
• Controlling who can administer or use inventories and credentials.
• Checking access to managed hosts with ad hoc commands.

4 Managing projects and launching jobs

• Connecting projects to Git repositories and configuring source-control credentials.
• Selecting branches and configuring project updates, including update-on-launch behaviour.
• Using execution environments and content supplied through private automation hub.
• Creating job templates and launching playbooks against managed hosts.
• Reviewing job output, execution events, and the activity stream.

5 Using advanced job template features

• Providing job inputs through extra variables, launch prompts, and surveys.
• Configuring host limits, forks, verbosity, job slicing, and fact caching.
• Scheduling automation jobs.
• Setting notifications for job start, completion, and failure.

6 Constructing automation workflows

• Creating workflow job templates with the visual workflow editor.
• Linking jobs using success, failure, and always branches.
• Configuring converging paths and recovery steps for failed operations.
• Adding approval nodes and managing approval timeouts.
• Launching and scheduling workflows, and configuring workflow notifications.

7 Managing advanced inventories

• Importing inventory content from projects stored in Git.
• Connecting dynamic inventory sources through inventory plug-ins.
• Scheduling inventory synchronisation and refreshing sources before execution.
• Creating constructed inventories by combining existing sources and filtering hosts using variables and patterns.

8 Automating platform configuration

• Managing configuration as code with platform content collections, including ansible.controller, ansible.platform, and ansible.hub.
• Using REST APIs, authentication tokens, and API calls from playbooks.
• Automating the creation and configuration of organisations, projects, and job templates.
• Storing configuration playbooks in Git and triggering automation through webhooks.

9 Maintaining and troubleshooting the platform

• Managing services and locating logs for the selected deployment method.
• Investigating common platform and job-execution failures.
• Using management jobs to maintain job history and activity-stream data.
• Planning and performing backup and restoration procedures.
• Reviewing upgrade considerations and subscription management.

10 Scaling deployments with automation mesh

• Understanding control, execution, and hop node roles, with hybrid-node behaviour considered where applicable to the deployment model.
• Connecting nodes through Receptor and designing mesh routes for remote or segmented networks.
• Managing instance groups, container groups, and execution capacity.
• Applying high-availability principles to platform components, databases, and load balancing.
• Assessing how node or service failures affect automation execution and recovery.

11 Comprehensive platform administration review

• Configuring private automation hub content against a supplied specification.
• Setting up an organisation with users, teams, inventories, credentials, and Git projects.
• Creating job templates and workflows to meet defined operational requirements.
• Reviewing access permissions, content availability, and automation execution across the configured environment.