AU467 Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform — Lesson 2: Projects, Inventories, Credentials, Job Templates, Surveys, Schedules, and Workflows

Learning Objectives

• Explain the structures, services, data, settings, roles, and dependencies governing projects and inventories.
• Implement and validate credentials, job templates, and workflows and schedules using reviewable evidence.
• Evaluate the condition where a change succeeds in one environment but fails elsewhere because inventory, policy, version, or runtime assumptions differ and select a proportionate corrective response.

Detailed Topics

• projects applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• inventories applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• credentials applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• job templates applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• workflows and schedules applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces an automation platform team operating a secure, scalable shared service for multiple engineering groups. The walkthrough connects navigation, commands, configuration logic, system messages, and evidence captured in the Automation Platform operating model, controller configuration evidence, content lifecycle design, and resilience runbook. It also tests the exception where a change succeeds in one environment but fails elsewhere because inventory, policy, version, or runtime assumptions differ.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled Red Hat exercise covering Projects, Inventories, Credentials, Job Templates, Surveys, Schedules, and Workflows and preserve the verified result in the Automation Platform operating model, controller configuration evidence, content lifecycle design, and resilience runbook.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, versions, identities, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
2. Execute the workflow while recording commands, settings, outputs, events, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception.
4. Document corrections, evidence, ownership, retest criteria, rollback, and handover actions.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which object, service, policy, setting, or sequence most strongly influences projects.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain technical, security, operational, and support trade-offs.
• Determine how the Automation Platform operating model, controller configuration evidence, content lifecycle design, and resilience runbook should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected behavior first differs from the observed result. Check prerequisites, identity, configuration order, version compatibility, connectivity, status, resource limits, and evidence separately. Treat “a change succeeds in one environment but fails elsewhere because inventory, policy, version, or runtime assumptions differ” as a hypothesis until commands, logs, settings, and retest outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required platform components, identities, permissions, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The Automation Platform operating model, controller configuration evidence, content lifecycle design, and resilience runbook connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, a boundary condition, dependency behavior, and the stated exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, rollback, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Projects, Inventories, Credentials, Job Templates, Surveys, Schedules, and Workflows, explain the resulting platform behavior, and defend the outcome through the Automation Platform operating model, controller configuration evidence, content lifecycle design, and resilience runbook.