EX294: Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Curriculum For This Course

Introduction

3Lectures

Time 00:12:00

Setting Up LAB Environment

6Lectures

Time 00:41:00

Exploring Core Components of Ansible

21Lectures

Time 03:28:00

Configuring Ansible Control Node

4Lectures

Time 00:32:00

Configuring Ansible Managed Node

7Lectures

Time 01:38:00

Using Ansible Modules For System Administration Tasks

13Lectures

Time 02:19:00

Using Scripts for System Administration Tasks

3Lectures

Time 00:21:00

Ansible Plays and Playbooks, Conditional Execution

15Lectures

Time 03:44:00

Using Advanced Ansible Features - Ansible Vault and Templates

10Lectures

Time 02:03:00

Working with Roles

8Lectures

Time 01:29:00

Introduction
	1. Introducing Exam Objectives and Format	3:00
	2. Introducing Ansible	5:00
	3. Important: RHCE Exam Version Update	4:00

Setting Up LAB Environment
	1. LAB Setup details	4:00
	2. Setting Up VM's and putting them on Internal Network	6:00
	3. Configuring IPv4 address and assigning hostname	8:00
	4. Configuring hosts file for local name resolution	6:00
	5. Installing Ansible	11:00
	6. Setting up SSH keys relationship for root user	6:00

Exploring Core Components of Ansible
	1. Introducing core components of Ansible	5:00
	2. Exploring Ansible configuration file -ansible.cfg	19:00
	3. Important Defaults Used by Ansible	1:00
	4. Example ansible.cfg file	3:00
	5. Ansible inventories and inventory file	15:00
	6. Understanding Ansible hostvars and groupvars	8:00
	7. Organising host_vars and group_vars	7:00
	8. Ansible Modules	12:00
	9. Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands-Part1	6:00
	10. Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands-Part 2	33:00
	11. Ansible Play and Playbooks	7:00
	12. Understanding Playbook YAML format with an example	10:00
	13. Understanding Simple Ansible Variable with playbook example	11:00
	14. Understanding Named Dictionary Variable with Playbook example	6:00
	15. Understanding Named List Variable with Playbook example	5:00
	16. Understanding Mixed Variable(Dict+List) with Playbook example	6:00
	17. Using YAML file to Define Variables	4:00
	18. Setting Variables during Playbook Execution	6:00
	19. Ansible facts and Accessing Ansible facts using Jinja2 expressions	24:00
	20. Filtering Ansible Facts using gather_subset and filter	17:00
	21. Getting Help- Ansible Documentation	3:00

Configuring Ansible Control Node
	1. Introduction	2:00
	2. Installing Ansible Version 2.8 using pip	9:00
	3. Task : Setting Up Ansible configuration file	10:00
	4. Task : Setting up Inventory file	11:00

Configuring Ansible Managed Node
	1. Introduction	1:00
	2. Task: Configuring Remote node to listen on non-default SSH port	32:00
	3. Task: Creating user and distributing SSH Keys using Ansible Ad-Hoc Command line	26:00
	4. Task: Configuring Privilege Escalation Using Ansible Ad-Hoc Command line	15:00
	5. Task: Configuring MOTD on Managed Nodes Using Ansible Ad-Hoc Command Line	4:00
	6. Task: Configuring Managed Hosts to use YUM Repos using Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands	19:00
	7. Important Information : Disable GPG Key Check	1:00

Using Ansible Modules For System Administration Tasks
	1. Introduction	2:00
	2. Task: Managing Services using Ansible Playbook	15:00
	3. Task: Creating User using playbook	6:00
	4. Task: Creating file, Setting Owner and Configuring permissions using Playbook	9:00
	5. Task: Creating file, Setting permissions, Copying content using Ad-hoc commands	6:00
	6. Task: Archiving Directory using Playbook	8:00
	7. Task: Scheduling Jobs using Playbook	13:00
	8. Task: Updating Packages using Playbook	4:00
	9. Task: Configuring Firewall using Playbook	8:00
	10. Task: Creating Groups and Directory using Playbook	10:00
	11. Task: Setting SELinux context using Playbook	12:00
	12. Task: Creating Partitions using Playbook	34:00
	13. Task-Creating and Mounting filesystem using Playbook	12:00

Using Scripts for System Administration Tasks
	1. Introduction	1:00
	2. Task: Creating File and Symbolic Link Using Shell Script	11:00
	3. Task: Creating User and Assigning supplementary Group Using Shell Script	9:00

Ansible Plays and Playbooks, Conditional Execution
	1. Introduction	3:00
	2. Understanding Jinja2 templating and Jinja2 Filters	20:00
	3. Understanding Jinja2 Template Conditional Statement: when	26:00
	4. Understanding Jinja2 Template loop Statements loop & with_items	16:00
	5. Understanding Jinja2 Template statements: loop and when combined	9:00
	6. Introducing & Understanding Magic Variables	20:00
	7. Task: Configuring MOTD on Managed Nodes using Conditional Playbook execution	12:00
	8. Task: Installing Packages on Managed Nodes using Conditional Playbook execution	8:00
	9. Task: Configuring Firewall using loop and Conditional Playbook execution	15:00
	10. Task Defining List Variable in File to Contain User Details as List Items	7:00
	11. Task Creating Users using loop and Conditional Playbook execution	20:00
	12. Task: Creating Volume Group using Conditional Playbook execution	21:00
	13. Task: Creating Logical Volume using Conditional execution and Error handling	24:00
	14. Task: Creating Logical Volume Using All Free Space on Volume group	10:00
	15. Task: Mounting Logical Volume persistently Using Conditional Playbook Execution	13:00

Using Advanced Ansible Features - Ansible Vault and Templates
	1. Understanding jinja2 if statement	12:00
	2. Understanding jinja2 for statement	10:00
	3. Task: Creating and Deploying Jinja2 Template to Managed Nodes Using Playbook	21:00
	4. Task: Creating Jinja2 Template to refer to Partition Sizes & Deploying Template	15:00
	5. Task: Creating J2 Template to Configure Hosts file as Local DNS on Managed Nodes	12:00
	6. Task: Creating J2 Template to Gather and Save Information About Remote Systems	17:00
	7. Introducing and Understanding Ansible Vaults With Example Playbook	28:00
	8. Task: Creating Encrypted File using Ansible Vault Command Line	4:00
	9. Task: Editing and Adding Content to Encrypted File	2:00
	10. Task: Changing(Rekey) Ansible Vault Password	2:00

Working with Roles
	1. Introducing Ansible Roles	4:00
	2. Ansible Role Directory Structure & Creating Role from Playbook	17:00
	3. Task: Creating Ansible Role to Configure Apache Web Server	19:00
	4. Task: Downloading Ansible Roles From Ansible Galaxy	10:00
	5. Task: Downloading Multiple Roles using YAML File	5:00
	6. Introducing System Roles and timesync System Role	14:00
	7. Task: Configuring Managed Nodes to Sync Time Using Chronyd-Part 1	6:00
	8. Task: Configuring Managed Nodes to Sync Time Using Chronyd-Part 2	14:00