Course Overview

Configure and manage network infrastructure using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO457) is designed for network administrators or infrastructure automation engineers who want to use network automation to centrally manage the switches, routers, and other devices in the organization's network infrastructure. Learn how to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to remotely automate the configuration of network devices, test and validate the current network state, and perform compliance checks to detect and correct configuration drift.

This course is based on Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform 2.3

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for network administrators, network automation engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers who are responsible for deploying, managing, and automating the network infrastructure of their organization or enterprise.

Course Objectives

• Prepare a development environment for Ansible network automation
• Write and troubleshoot effective Ansible Playbooks for network automation
• Gather information about network infrastructure configuration for infrastructure awareness and configuration backup
• Automate specific network administration use cases, including configuration of routers and switches, ports, VLANs, SNMP monitoring, and routing protocols
• Use Ansible Playbooks to manage devices from various hardware vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, and Arista
• Centrally manage Ansible content in Git and run it centrally with automation controller
• Reuse existing, tested network automation code with Ansible Roles, Ansible Content Collections, and Ansible validated content

Course Outline