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Red Hat Services Management and Automation

RH358LSCourseEnterprise Linux 5 days

Learn how to configure and manage key services integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and scale up your work with Ansible automation.

Red Hat Services Management and Automation (RH358) is designed for IT professionals with some experience managing Linux systems, who want to learn more about how to manage and deploy network services that are included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You will learn how to manually install, configure, and manage basic configurations of these services, and then use Ansible to automate your work in a scalable, repeatable manner.

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4.

What you'll learn

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

Course Outline

01Managing Network Services Discuss and review key tools and skills needed to manage network services.

02Configuring Link Aggregation Configure and troubleshoot advanced network interface functionality, including network bonds.

03Managing 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.

04Managing DHCP and IP Address Assignment Explain and configure services that automatically assign IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, including DHCP, DHCPv6, and SLAAC.

05Managing 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.

06Configuring 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.

07Configuring 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.

08Configuring Web Servers Provide web content from Apache HTTP Server or Nginx web servers, and configure them with virtual hosts and TLS-based encryption.

09Providing File-based Network Storage Provide file-based network-attached storage to clients by using the NFS or SMB protocol.

10Accessing 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.

Prerequisites

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

Who should attend

›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

Outcomes

Impact on the organisation

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.

Impact on the individual

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.

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