Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation (RH294) is designed for Linux® system administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration. You will learn how to install and configure Ansible® on a management workstation; prepare managed hosts for automation; write Ansible Playbooks to automate tasks; and run playbooks to ensure servers are correctly deployed and configured.This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat® Ansible Engine 2.8.Target AudienceThis course is geared toward Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers who are responsible for these tasks:Automating configuration managementEnsuring consistent and repeatable application deploymentProvisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production serversIntegrating with DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery workflowsContent summaryInstall Ansible / Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes.Create and update inventories of managed hosts and manage connections to them.Automate administration tasks with Ansible Playbooks and ad hoc commands.Write effective playbooks at scale.Protect sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault.Reuse code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles.