Specialization 1 of 4 ยท Linux Enterprise Track
Automation and Deployment
Build network services and manage fleets of RHEL systems at scale.
Is it for you? You enjoy repeatable builds and managing many servers at once.
- Exam length
- 4 hours
- Based on
- RHEL 9.4 and Ansible Automation Platform 2.4
- Recommended first
- RHCE-level skills; the RH358 course is recommended
- Format
- Hands-on tasks on live systems
What the exam covers
- Networking, firewall, SELinux and bonded interfaces, by hand and with Ansible
- DNS caching and authoritative servers, forward and reverse lookups
- DHCP ranges and fixed leases for IPv4 and IPv6
- Mail relay, MariaDB and network printers
- Apache, NGINX, virtual hosts, HTTPS and HAProxy load balancing
- File services: iSCSI targets, NFS exports and SMB shares
- Ansible playbooks, inventories, variables and RHEL System Roles
- Exam length
- 4 hours (confirm on the exam page)
- Based on
- Red Hat Satellite
- Recommended first
- RHCSA or RHCE; the RH403 course is recommended
- Format
- Hands-on tasks on live systems
What the exam covers
- Satellite server setup: organizations, locations, users and roles
- Content: products, repositories, content views and life cycles
- Custom RPM signing and content filters for selected hosts
- Registering hosts, host collections, activation keys and capsule servers
- Ansible roles and remote execution on managed hosts
- Provisioning bare-metal and virtual clients with kickstarts
- Satellite maintenance and backup
Planning your three. Combine with Security and Identity to build a fleet that is also protected.
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