Introduction to Event-Driven Ansible (DO274) is a one-day course designed for technical professionals who want to configure Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) to run automation code without manual intervention, based on events sent by supported event sources. Students learn about key use cases as examples of how to use EDA in their IT infrastructure. Students write Ansible Rulebooks and use them in EDA controller to react to events.
Course Objectives
Understand what EDA is and describe some of its key use cases and benefits.
Identify and describe the components that make up EDA.
Read, write, and test basic Ansible Rulebooks.
Install and configure EDA controller to run Ansible Rulebooks that launch job templates in automation controller.
Explore and configure examples of some use cases for EDA including GitOps and NetOps scenarios.
Audience
Sysadmins, DevOps engineers, network administrators, and other technical professionals who are responsible for ensuring rapid response to infrastructure or application events and are interested in implementing issue remediation and resolution with automation.
Prerequisites
This course requires students to have basic knowledge of command-line Ansible, a text editor (such as vim or Visual Studio Code), and Git.
User-level experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux is required; RHCSA or RHCE-level skill is recommended.
Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 and automation controller is recommended.