Red Hat Services Management and Automation

Linux system administrators, platform engineers, developers, and other IT professionals with some Ansible experience who are interested in learning how to manage and automate the deployment, configuration, and operation of key network services included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

• Providing key network services using software included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, including:
  • DNS with Unbound and BIND9
  • IPv4 and IPv6 network autoconfiguration withDHCP and DHCPv6 servers
  • Client email transmission
  • Printing service with IPP Everywhere and CUPS
  • NFS and SMB protocol file sharing
  • SQL database service with MariaDB
  • Web services using Apache HTTPD and Nginx.
• Configuring advanced networking for server use cases, including network bonding
• Using Ansible to automate the manual deployment and configuration tasks covered in this course

1. Managing Network Services
Discuss and review key tools and skills needed to manage network services.

2. Configuring Link Aggregation
Configure and troubleshoot advanced network interface functionality, including network bonds.

3. Managing DNS and DNS Servers
Explain the operation of the Domain Name System (DNS), troubleshoot DNS issues, and configure name servers that are caching-only or that are authoritative for a DNS zone.

4. Managing DHCP and IP Address Assignment
Explain and configure services that automatically assign IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, including DHCP, DHCPv6, and SLAAC.

5. Managing Printers and Printing Files
Configure systems to print to network printers that support the IPP Everywhere protocol, and manage existing print queues on Linux systems.

6. Configuring Email Transmission
Discuss how mail servers operate, and configure a server to use system tools and Postfix to send email messages through an outbound mail relay.

7.Configuring MariaDB SQL Databases
Discuss the basic operation of SQL-based relational databases, perform basic SQL queries for troubleshooting, and be able to set up a simple MariaDB database service.

8. Configuring Web Servers
Provide web content from Apache HTTP Server or Nginx web servers, and configure them with virtual hosts and TLS-based encryption.

9. Providing File-based Network Storage
Provide file-based network-attached storage to clients by using the NFS or SMB protocol.

10. Accessing Block-based Network Storage
Configure iSCSI initiators on your servers to access block-based storage devices provided by network storage arrays or Ceph storage clusters.

• RHCSA-level skills with Linux system administration
• Working knowledge of Ansible (RH294 or equivalent skills and experience)

• Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374)

• RH342 - Red Hat Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

Business Outcome Statement

This course will help your IT staff develop key skills in managing and automating common services that support and are used by your business-critical applications.  This can reduce time to deployment, improve reliability, and help ensure architectural compliance, allowing resources to be spent on improving rather than just running your business.

Student Outcome Statement

In this course, you will learn the system administration skills needed to set up and provide key network services that are frequently used by servers and their applications in enterprise data centers.  You will gain an understanding of how to manually manage these services, and you will also prepare Ansible Playbooks to automate manual configuration tasks and perform them at scale.