Getting started with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Before getting started with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform, it’s important to understand what it exactly entails. This learning path will cover how its components work together and a few key automation concepts such as playbooks, roles, and inventories.

This learning path is for operations teams or system administrators
Developers may want to check out Foundations of Ansible on developers.redhat.com. 

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Getting started with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

When it comes to solutions for optimizing your organization’s IT operations, Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform has several things that can help. Ansible contains a combination of security measures, integrations, and flexibility selections that can help scale automation and improve workflows. This learning path will run through the basics of the platform and how to implement automation to your chosen environment. 

What do you need before starting?

  • Nothing! Use this as a starting point

What is included in this learning path?

  • Key functionalities
  • Ansible Playbooks
  • Roles and inventories
  • Common use cases
  • Basics of using Ansible

What will you get?

  • Comprehensive look at Ansible Automation Platform and use cases for examples
  • High-level knowledge of key functionalities within Ansible
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