Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Ansible Automation Study Guide
In-Depth Guidance and Practice


Book Details
Authors | Alex Soto Bueno, Andrew Block |
Publisher | O'Reilly Media |
Published | 2025 |
Edition | 1st |
Paperback | 214 pages |
Language | English |
ISBN-13 | 9781098162122, 9781098162139 |
ISBN-10 | 1098162129, 1098162137 |
License | Compliments of Red Hat |
Book Description
Automation skills are in high demand as businesses look to simplify their day-to-day operations and scale infrastructure efficiently. Ansible is a powerful open source tool that makes it easy to build and operate IT automation at scale, in the cloud, hybrid cloud, and at the edge.
Download the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Ansible Automation Study Guide and get started on the path to delivering applications faster and in a reproducible way. This comprehensive guide walks through material from the RHCE certification exam, 90% of which covers Ansible.
Whether you're a Linux administrator preparing for certification or just looking to advance your automation skills, this book helps you gain deep knowledge of Ansible systems that you can apply to real-world challenges.
With the Ansible automation tool, developers and system administrators in the enterprise can automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of distributed and on-premises systems. This study guide prepares you for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification exam, 90% of which covers Ansible.
Red Hat's Alex Soto Bueno and Andrew Block walk you through all the material covered in the exam. You'll begin with foundational concepts that build on one another and then dive into specific exam topics. The performance-based RHCE exam requires a deep knowledge of Ansible systems and tasks under time pressure. This comprehensive guide is the ideal way to prepare.
- Learn how Ansible can simplify your day-to-day operations
- Solve real-world Ansible problems in a hands-on command-line environment
- Install Ansible and set up managed environments
- Use ad hoc commands and include them in scripts as requested in the exam
- Prepare your Ansible configuration file and inventory file
- Set up and prepare nodes, including SSH key-based authentication
- Install required Ansible packages
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