RH294 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible培訓

Introduction to Ansible and Automation Patterns

• Ansible architecture and core concepts
• Inventory management and connection options
• Ad hoc commands and simple playbooks

Writing Robust Playbooks

• Playbook structure, tasks, and handlers
• Idempotence and error handling
• Reusing tasks with includes and imports

Roles, Collections, and Project Structure

• Creating and organizing roles
• Building and publishing collections
• Best practices for repository layout and reuse

Variables, Facts, and Templating

• Variable precedence and scopes
• Using facts and custom fact gathering
• Jinja2 templating for configuration generation

Modules, Plugins, and Extensibility

• Core and community modules overview
• Developing plugins and custom modules
• Managing secrets and credentials securely

Testing, Quality and CI/CD Integration

• Unit and integration testing with Molecule and Testinfra
• Linting and quality gates (ansible-lint, yamllint)
• Integrating Ansible into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Operationalizing with AWX/Tower

• AWX/Tower installation and architecture
• Job templates, workflows, and schedules
• RBAC, logging, notifications, and auditability

Scaling, Performance and Troubleshooting

• Optimizing inventory and connection performance
• Strategies for large-scale concurrency and orchestration
• Debugging playbooks and operational troubleshooting

Security, Compliance, and Enterprise Patterns

• Managing secrets (Vault, Ansible Vault, external stores)
• Compliance automation and change control patterns
• Disaster recovery and rollback strategies

Capstone Project: End-to-End Automation Pipeline

• Designing an automation solution for a realistic use case
• Implementing playbooks, roles, tests, and CI/CD integration
• Presentations, peer review, and instructor feedback

Summary and Next Steps