User:Tom/RHCS EX447

Objectives

Study points for the exam

You should be able to accomplish the following grouped tasks without assistance:

• Understand and use Git
  • Clone a Git repository
  • Update, modify and create files in a Git repository
  • Add those modified files back into the Git repository
• Manage inventory variables
  • Structure host and group variables using multiple files per host or group
  • Use special variables to override the host, port, or remote user Ansible uses for a specific host
  • Set up directories containing multiple host variable files for some of your managed hosts
  • Override the name used in the inventory file with a different name or IP address
• Manage task execution
  • Control privilege execution
  • Run selected tasks
• Transform data with filters and plugins
  • Populate variables with data from external sources using lookup plugins
  • Use lookup and query functions to template data from external sources into playbooks and deployed template files
  • Implement loops using structures other than simple lists using lookup plugins and filters
  • Inspect, validate, and manipulate variables containing networking information with filters
• Delegate tasks
  • Run a task for a managed host on a different host, then control whether facts gathered by that task are delegated to the managed host or the other host
• Install Ansible Tower
  • Perform basic configuration of Ansible Tower after configuration
  • Manage access for Ansible Tower
  • Create Ansible Tower users and teams and make associations of one to the other*
• Manage inventories and credentials
  • Manage advanced inventories
  • Create a dynamic inventory from an identity management server or a database server
  • Create machine credentials to access inventory hosts
  • Create a source control credential
• Manage projects
  • Create a job template
• Manage job workflows
  • Create a job workflow template
• Work with the Ansible Tower API
  • Write an API scriptlet to launch a job
• Back up Ansible Tower
  • Back up an instance of Ansible Tower