Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 2 Using Ansible Playbooks

Learn how to create and work with Ansible playbooks as you study for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) exam.

Introduction

• Introduction
• What you should know
• About the EX294 exam
• Reconfigure-Migrate CentOS

1. Working with Playbooks

• Introduction to playbooks
• Playbook language
• YAML tips and tricks
• Install the Atom editor
• Configure VIM for YAML
• Playbook hosts and users
• Playbook tasks list
• Playbook change handlers
• Verify Playbooks

2. Creating Reusable Playbooks

• Create structured configuration
• About playbook roles
• Creating roles
• Static and dynamic content
• Using includes in Playbooks

3. Using Variables

• Setting inventory and playbook variables
• Using variables
• Registering variables
• Discovering variables from facts

4. Using Flow Control

• The when statement
• Looping methods in Ansible
• Looping with lists
• Looping with dictionaries
• Looping and conditionals
• Registering variables in loops

5. Grouping Content

• Using blocks
• Block error handling
• Using tags

6. Using Ansible to Deploy Files

• Using Jinja2 template files
• Using modules to manipulate files
• Deploying files from templates

Conclusion

• Next steps