Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Best Practices

he Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices exam will be of interest to anyone seeking to demonstrate a broader knowledge and understanding of Ansible best practices, applying Ansible in larger and more complex projects, and using Ansible Tower, including those in these roles:

- Experienced Linux system administrators

- DevOps engineers

- Cloud administrators

- Other IT professionals

You should be able to accomplish the following grouped tasks without assistance:

Understand and use Git

• Clone a Git repository
• Update, modify and create files in a Git repository
• Add those modified files back into the Git repository

Manage inventory variables

• Structure host and group variables using multiple files per host or group
• Use special variables to override the host, port, or remote user Ansible uses for a specific host
• Set up directories containing multiple host variable files for some of your managed hosts
• Override the name used in the inventory file with a different name or IP address

Manage task execution

• Control privilege execution
• Run selected tasks

Transform data with filters and plugins

• Populate variables with data from external sources using lookup plugins
• Use lookup and query functions to template data from external sources into playbooks and deployed template files
• Implement loops using structures other than simple lists using lookup plugins and filters
• Inspect, validate, and manipulate variables containing networking information with filters

Delegate tasks

• Run a task for a managed host on a different host, then control whether facts gathered by that task are delegated to the managed host or the other host

Install Ansible Tower

• Perform basic configuration of Ansible Tower after configuration

Manage access for Ansible Tower

• Create Ansible Tower users and teams and make associations of one to the other

Manage inventories and credentials

• Manage advanced inventories
• Create a dynamic inventory from an identity management server or a database server
• Create machine credentials to access inventory hosts
• Create a source control credential

Manage projects

• Create a job template

Manage job workflows

• Create a job workflow template

Work with the Ansible Tower API

• Write an API scriptlet to launch a job

Back up Ansible Tower

• Back up an instance of Ansible Tower

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.

• Take Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices (DO447), or possess comparable work experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Ansible, and Ansible Tower
• Take Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation (RH294), or possess comparable work experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ansible
• Review the exam objectives

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