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

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

About the author

Alex Soto Bueno is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. He is passionate about the Java world and software automation, and he believes in the open-source software model. He has done numerous Ansible Deep Dives as part of the Red Hat DevNation efforts. Alex is the co-author of GitOps Cookbook, Testing Java Microservices, Quarkus Cookbook, Securing Kubernetes Secrets and contributor to several open-source projects. A Java Champion since 2017, he is also an international speaker and teacher at Salle URL University.Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat that works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies to reduce delivery time and automate how environments are built and maintained. Andrew is the author of several publications on solutions within the Kubernetes ecosystem, a maintainer on the Helm project, and a contributor to several Open Source projects including sigstore which provides tooling for securing the software delivery process.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Soto Bueno, Andrew Block, Andrew Block, Block Andrew, Alex Soto Bueno
• Publisher: O'Reilly
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2025
• EAN: 9781098162139
• ISBN: 978-1-0981-6213-9
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