AU374LS: Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Advance your Ansible skills and develop automation that scales by applying recommended practices with the new, container focused tools from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AU374) is designed for automation content developers to use the container-focused tools from Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform to efficiently develop automation that can be managed through the Ansible Automation Platform unified UI. Learn recommended practices for automation development using reusable code, advanced playbook techniques, shared automation execution environments, and preparing for scalable automation with automation content navigator.

Version:
This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5.

 Important Information about Course Delivery and Enrollment

Please note that as of January 1, 2026, Red Hat is introducing its Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS) course model, a flexible subscription solution that replaces their previous direct enrollment for virtual course dates.

When purchasing this product, you will receive access to an RHLS at course level, giving you the flexibility to enroll in the course date that suits you best, directly through your Red Hat training portal.

The RHLS subscription includes the following:

  • One live, instructor-led course
  • 12 months of access to the associated e-learning materials
  • Up to 100 hours of additional lab access
  • One exam voucher, including one retake if needed

Please use the e-learning order form on the right-hand side to purchase the course. You can read more about the Red Hat Learning Subscription model here.

Note that the RHLS solution is only available upon purchase of individual virtual classes. 

If you are attending a physical classroom training or a private, company-specific training, the following is included:

  • Official Red Hat classroom training led by certified experts with extensive Red Hat product experience
  • 45-day access to hands-on labs for any course that includes a virtual environment
  • Official digital Red Hat course materials

Course Objectives

This course is intended to develop skills to:

  • Distribute automation throughout your organization with the use of reusable code.
  • Create easily scalable automation for larger enterprise environments with the new, containerized architecture.

Audience

This course is designed for users who create automation content, including these roles:

  • Developers
  • DevOps engineers
  • Linux system administrators
  • Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Prerequisites

Red Hat recommends these prerequisites:

  • Use the capabilities of automation content navigator to develop Ansible Playbooks.
  • Apply recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
  • Use advanced features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to work with data, including filters and plug-ins.
  • Perform automation operations as rolling updates.
  • Create automation execution environments to bundle and distribute the dependencies needed to run automation code.

Outline for this course

Develop Playbooks with Ansible Automation Platform 2
Develop Ansible Playbooks following recommended practices with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.

Manage Ansible Content Collections and Automation Execution Environments
Run playbooks that use content collections not included in ansible-core, either from an existing execution environment or by downloading them from the automation hub.

Run Playbooks with Automation Controller
Explain what automation controller is and demonstrate how to use it to run playbooks that you developed with automation content navigator.

Work with Ansible Configuration Settings
Examine and adjust the configuration of Ansible and automation content navigator to simplify development and to troubleshoot issues.

Manage Inventories
Manage inventories by using advanced features of Ansible.

Manage Task Execution
Control and optimize the execution of tasks by Ansible Playbooks.

Transform Data with Filters and Plugins
Populate, manipulate, and manage data in variables using filters and plugins.

Coordinate Rolling Updates
Use advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates in order to minimize downtime and to ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks.

Create Ansible Content Collections and Automation Execution Environments
Write your own Ansible Content Collections, publish them, embed them in a custom automation execution environment, and run them in playbooks by using the automation controller.

Practical information

Duration: 4 days
Price: 45 000 NOK
Language: English
Format: Virtual, classroom, or on demand

FAQ

Hvordan gjennomføres kurset?
Kurset gjennomføres som instruktørledet undervisning med praktiske lab-øvelser i Red Hat sitt læringsmiljø.

Hvem passer kurset for?
Kurset passer for utviklere, DevOps-ingeniører og systemadministratorer som jobber med automatisering.

Hva lærer jeg i løpet av kurset?
Du lærer avanserte teknikker for automatisering med Ansible, inkludert utvikling av playbooks, håndtering av data og skalering av automatisering.

Er kurset praktisk rettet?
Ja. Kurset inkluderer hands-on lab-øvelser hvor deltakerne utvikler og tester automatisering.

Hvilke temaer dekkes i kurset?
Kurset dekker blant annet avanserte playbooks, execution environments, inventories, plugins og automatisering i større miljøer.

Får jeg sertifisering etter kurset?
Nei. Kurset gir ikke sertifisering. Kurset forbereder til exam EX374: Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform.

Hvilke forkunnskaper anbefales?
Det anbefales RH294 eller tilsvarende erfaring med Ansible og Linux.

Hva gjør dette kurset unikt?
Kurset fokuserer på avansert og skalerbar automatisering med moderne, containerbaserte verktøy i Ansible-plattformen.

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