Hey friends and welcome to the Red Hat Certified Engineer course here on CBT N
uggets.
So what I want to do to begin is to first discuss the general exam objectives
pretty
much what should we actually be tackling within this particular course and
discuss the format
of the course as well as who this course actually should be for.
So with that said let's dive in and look at some of the details.
Now the very first thing to state about the RHC examination is that if you want
to be
eligible and achieve this particular certification you must first have a valid WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
eligible and achieve this particular certification you must first have a valid
and current RHCSA
certification.
So if you've not quite yet got your Red Hat Certified System Admin
certification then
fear not we do actually have the RHCSA examination course here on CBT Nuggets
also.
So once you've got that box ticked and you are a valid RHCSA Certified Engineer
you
are therefore eligible to set this particular course. Now important to
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understand the RHCE
certification is a performance based exam. There are no written questions, only
written
tasks that you have to perform on a virtual machine.
So the question is what type of tasks should you be expected to know.
Now really traditionally in older iterations of this particular exam you could
expect to
see very advanced Linux admin topics.
However in the new modern version of the examination the actual tasks which you
are asked to perform
are really not that advanced. It is very much the type of content that you WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
are really not that advanced. It is very much the type of content that you
would expect
to see in the RHCSA certification. The difference here in the RHCE exam is that
we are performing
all of these types of tasks that we would do in this particular exam.
But now we are being asked to do those tasks via automation using Red Hat Ans
ible Engine.
So whilst the RHCSA examination might ask you to configure new users on the
system the
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RHCE exam will ask you to do the same type of thing this time using Ansible.
Now if we go into the actual objectives here we get a little bit more detail
about what
should actually be studying. Here are the actual tasks that we are expected to
understand.
Notice these are very very similar to what we see in RHCSA. Configuring local
storage,
managing users, basic security, configuring file systems, that type of thing.
But doing
it with this understanding of automation. So we are going to be looking at all
of these
components of Ansible. Things like the inventory, how we can use modules, what
variables are,
how to use loops and conditional statements, that type of thing. We are going WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
how to use loops and conditional statements, that type of thing. We are going
to learn
how we can use rows within Ansible and leverage something known as Ansible
Galaxy. And how
we can set up what is known as the Ansible control node which is basically the
device
on the system that is running Ansible that is performing the Ansible automation
. And
we are going to learn how we can perform those tasks on these managed nodes. So
very important
we will get to see how we can actually use SSH keys for passwordless
authentication,
how we can elevate a privileges on these managed devices that type of thing. We WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
how we can elevate a privileges on these managed devices that type of thing. We
will talk about
something known as Ansible Navigator, we will talk about creating plays and
playbooks.
As well as a whole bunch of other details including how we can also templatise
configuration
files and protect secret data using a utility known as Ansible Vault. So we are
going to
have a lot of fun within this course. However the very first thing that we are
going to
have to do is to begin building out our lab environment and that begins by
getting a
copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.