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Automating Networks with Ansible

4 Courses
15 Hours
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These courses are not approved or sponsored by Red Hat. \ \ Need a solution for network automation? Why not try Ansible? This path takes you through what you need to know for automating networks with Ansible. You’ll start with some Ansible networking basics before diving into some more advanced concepts that’ll round out your network automation skills.

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What You'll Learn
  • Understand Ansible architecture
  • Perform basic network automation tasks
  • Manage Ansible roles
  • Manage Ansible collections
  • Build a basic infrastructure as code (IaC) solution
  • Develop and test custom Ansible filters using Python
  • Build a complex infrastructure as code (IaC) solution
  • Leverage the purpose-built roles and collections
  • Automate networks with model-driven programmability
  • Deploy auxiliary tools to create professional playbooks
  • Automate multi-vendor networks using common CLI methods
  • Apply basic Ansible security techniques
  • Use abstraction libraries to simplify multi-vendor automation
  • Integrate sources of truth (SOT) using Ansible dynamic inventory plugins
  • Interconnect cloud and on-premises networks using cloud computing instances
  • Interconnect cloud and on-premises networks using cloud SaaS gateways
  • Perform basic ITSM tasks using Ansible
  • Automate network configuration from an ITSM
  • Automate network troubleshooting from an ITSM
  • Develop periodic and event-driven notifications for ITSM integration
Prerequisites
  • You should be familiar with network infrastructure tools and topics as well as Ansible basics.
Related topics
  • RHCE
  • Network Infrastructure
  • Ciso Certified DevNet Associate
  • RHCSA
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