Course

Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform («DO417»)

Learn how to automate administration on Windows Server to enable your DevOps workflow.
Duration 4 days
Price 3'700.–
Please note:  This is a reseller course and as such excluded from any discounts (excluding promo codes).

Course facts

Key Learnings
  • Configuring Microsoft Windows systems to be managed with Ansible
  • Creating and managing inventories of managed hosts and provide credentials to manage them to Red Hat Ansible Tower
  • Writing Ansible playbooks to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed hosts
  • Running individual ad hoc automation tasks and complex playbooks from Red Hat Ansible Tower
  • Creating survey forms in Red Hat Ansible Tower to simplify playbook operation
  • Parameterizing playbooks using variables and facts
  • Writing and reusing existing Ansible roles to simplify playbook creation and reuse code
  • Leverage existing PowerShell DSC code to extend the power of Ansible automation
  • Automating common Windows Server system administration tasks using Ansible
Content

This course is designed for Windows Server professionals without previous Ansible® experience. You will use Ansible to write automation playbooks for Microsoft Windows systems to perform common system administration tasks reproducibly at scale. You will also learn to use Red Hat® Ansible Tower to securely manage and run your Ansible playbooks from a central web-based user interface.

Course outline: 

  • Introduction to Red Hat Ansible Automation
  • Run simple automation commands
  • Implement Ansible playbooks
  • Manage variables and facts
  • Install and update software
  • Implement task control
  • Deploy files to managed hosts
  • Interact with users and domains
  • Automate Windows automation tasks
  • Manage large projects
  • Construct Ansible Tower workflows
Target audience

This course is aimed at Windows Server administrators interested in automating management tasks and in using automation tools to implement their DevOps workflow.

Requirements

You are expected to have experience as Windows Server Administrator, but no previous experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation or Linux® is required.

Additional information

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8, Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5, and Windows Server 2016 and 2019.

Please make sure to bring your own device (BYOD).

Your device must be installed with a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

  • If you are running Microsoft Windows, you should have Microsoft Remote Desktop installed.
  • If you are running macOS, you will need to install Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac (by Microsoft) from the App Store.
  • If you are running Linux, you may install Remmina from the distribution (if available) or follow instructions at https://remmina.org (if not). If you prefer, you may instead install the FreeRDP clients from the Linux distribution (in the freerdp package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux).

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2025
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Apr
2025
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2025
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2025
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2025
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2025
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2025
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2025
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2025
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Sep
2025
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Apr
2025
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Apr
2025
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CHF 3’700.-
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