EX407: Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation exam Certification Video Training Course

Get ready for your exam by enrolling in our comprehensive training course. This course includes a full set of instructional videos designed to equip you with in-depth knowledge essential for passing the certification exam with flying colors.

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Introduction to Ansible

1. What is Ansible Part I: Why Ansible ?
6m
2. What is Ansible Part II: Simplicity, YAML, Push Model, Custom Modules
6m
3. What is Ansible Part III: Batteries Included Approach
4m
4. What is Ansible Part IV: Infrastructure as a Code
6m
5. What is Ansible Part V: Code vs Data
5m
6. What is Ansible Part VI: Idempotence and State Management
6m
7. What is Ansible Part VIII: The Ansible Story
4m

Setting up the Environment

1. Section Introduction
1m
2. Introduction to codespaces
6m
3. Setting up codespaces locally with docker
8m
4. Launching codespaces on digital ocean cloud
5m

Path to Automation with Ansible

1. Section Introduction
1m
2. Tasks, Modules, Roles
7m
3. Inventories and Playbooks
5m
4. Code Organization Strategies
4m
5. Introducing Use Case - Devops Demo App
4m
6. Approach to automate Devops Demo App
5m

Ad Hoc Server Management with Ansible

1. Section Introduction
2m
2. Configuring Ansible
6m
3. Defining a static Inventory
6m
4. Host Patterns and Ad Hoc Commands
9m
5. Modules and Desired State Configuration
5m
6. Invoking Modules, Idempotence
6m
7. Using common modules
8m
8. Command Modules and Idempotence
8m
9. Using ansible-console REPL Shell
4m

Playbooks

1. Section Introduction
1m
2. YAML Primer
5m
3. Anatomy of a Playbook
7m
4. Writing your first Play
5m
5. Validating and applying Ansible Playbook
5m
6. Troubleshooting playbook failures
5m
7. Adding another play for app servers
4m
8. Nano Project: Create a playbook to deploy a Static Site
2m

Roles

1. Section Introduction
1m
2. Why do you need roles?
4m
3. Anatomy of a Role
4m
4. Code Organization Strategies
4m
5. Generating Roles Scaffold and Ansible Galaxy
3m
6. Creating a role for Apache
5m
7. Writing and applying playbook for app servers
3m
8. Copying config file, notifications and handlers
8m
9. Creating a role for PHP
6m
10. Nested roles and site wide playbook
5m
11. Nano project: Deploy Devops Demo App
2m

Vars and Templates

1. Section Introduction
1m
2. Need to separate data from code
3m
3. Diving into Jinja2 templates
5m
4. Understanding ansible vars, Precedence Levels and Best Practices
7m
5. Advanced vars concepts
7m
6. Dynamically defining app version with vars and tasks
6m
7. Managing app configs with templates and vars
9m
8. Playing with vars precedence
8m
9. Registereed varibles and conditional execution
5m
10. Discovering facts with setup module
5m

Ansible Galaxy

1. Section Introduction
1m
2. Tour of Ansible Galaxy
8m
3. Selecing role for HAProxy
5m
4. Applying HAProxy role with custom properties
4m
5. Troubleshooting HAProxy Issues
5m
6. Nano Project: Setup MySQL database using a galaxy role
3m
7. Setting up MySQL
6m
8. Connecting app with the database
2m
9. Checking in the galaxy roles
3m
10. Tagging tasks, roles, plays and playbooks
4m

Controlling Execution Flow

1. Overview of Conditionals
5m
2. Overview of Iterators
5m
3. Iterating over a list to install packages
3m
4. Iterating over a dictionary to create users
4m
5. Using conditionals in tasks and templates
4m
6. Adding Ubuntu support by conditionally including vars
8m
7. Making application compatible with ubuntu
6m

Auto Disovery and Manging Multiple Environments

1. Enabling Facts Caching
6m
2. Using Magic Variables for Service Discovery
7m
3. Creating staging environment
9m
4. Rolling back changes with contra playbooks
5m

Vault

1. Encrypting a file and using it in a playbook
6m
2. Using a password file and Rekeying
4m
3. Vault 1.2 and multiple Vault IDs
6m
4. Changing Vault IDs and Encrypting Strings in File
5m
5. Encrypting mysql passwords with Vault
5m

Application Deployments

1. Section Introduction
1m
2. Writing tasks for importing database schema
6m
3. Applying schema updates and Troubleshooting
5m
4. Creating strategy for Rolling updates
4m
5. Adding pre and post tasks, Tasks gelegation, Testing with wait_for
6m