July 9th, 2022 | 
Author: I am offering you my Ansible automation experiences (See below.)
I am able to perform all tasks expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Understand and use essential tools
- Operate running systems
- Configure local storage
- Create and configure file systems
- Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
- Manage users and groups
- Manage security
Understand core components of Ansible
- Inventories
- Modules
- Variables
- Facts
- Plays
- Playbooks
- Configuration files
- Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands
Install and configure an Ansible control node
- Install required packages
- Create a static host inventory file
- Create a configuration file
- Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts
- Manage parallelism
Configure Ansible managed nodes
- Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
- Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
- Validate a working configuration using ad hoc Ansible commands
Script administration tasks
- Create simple shell scripts
- Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands
Create Ansible plays and playbooks
- Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules
- Use variables to retrieve the results of running a command
- Use conditionals to control play execution
- Configure error handling
- Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state
Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks that work with:
- Software packages and repositories
- Services
- Firewall rules
- File systems
- Storage devices
- File content
- Archiving
- Scheduled tasks
- Security
- Users and groups
Work with roles
- Create roles
- Download roles from an Ansible Galaxy and use them
Use advanced Ansible features
- Create and use templates to create customized configuration files
- Use Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive data
As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.
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