WEBVTT 1 00:00.000 --> 00:05.410 Hey friends and welcome to the Red Hat Certified Engineer course here on CBT N 2 00:05.410 --> 00:05.920 uggets. 3 00:05.920 --> 00:11.140 So what I want to do to begin is to first discuss the general exam objectives 4 00:11.140 --> 00:11.280 pretty 5 00:11.280 --> 00:15.400 much what should we actually be tackling within this particular course and 6 00:15.400 --> 00:16.680 discuss the format 7 00:16.680 --> 00:20.560 of the course as well as who this course actually should be for. 8 00:20.560 --> 00:24.480 So with that said let's dive in and look at some of the details. 9 00:24.480 --> 00:29.440 Now the very first thing to state about the RHC examination is that if you want 10 00:29.440 --> 00:29.680 to be 11 00:29.680 --> 00:35.450 eligible and achieve this particular certification you must first have a valid WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000 11 00:29.680 --> 00:35.450 eligible and achieve this particular certification you must first have a valid 12 00:35.450 --> 00:37.600 and current RHCSA 13 00:37.600 --> 00:38.600 certification. 14 00:38.600 --> 00:42.290 So if you've not quite yet got your Red Hat Certified System Admin 15 00:42.290 --> 00:43.460 certification then 16 00:43.460 --> 00:48.790 fear not we do actually have the RHCSA examination course here on CBT Nuggets 17 00:48.790 --> 00:49.480 also. 18 00:49.480 --> 00:55.310 So once you've got that box ticked and you are a valid RHCSA Certified Engineer 19 00:55.310 --> 00:55.360 you 20 00:55.360 --> 00:59.890 are therefore eligible to set this particular course. Now important to 21 00:59.890 --> 01:01.360 understand the RHCE WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000 21 00:59.890 --> 01:01.360 understand the RHCE 22 01:01.360 --> 01:06.600 certification is a performance based exam. There are no written questions, only 23 01:06.600 --> 01:07.000 written 24 01:07.000 --> 01:11.200 tasks that you have to perform on a virtual machine. 25 01:11.200 --> 01:14.600 So the question is what type of tasks should you be expected to know. 26 01:14.600 --> 01:19.170 Now really traditionally in older iterations of this particular exam you could 27 01:19.170 --> 01:19.680 expect to 28 01:19.680 --> 01:22.960 see very advanced Linux admin topics. 29 01:22.960 --> 01:27.370 However in the new modern version of the examination the actual tasks which you 30 01:27.370 --> 01:28.840 are asked to perform 31 01:28.840 --> 01:33.220 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 31 01:28.840 --> 01:33.220 are really not that advanced. It is very much the type of content that you 32 01:33.220 --> 01:33.640 would expect 33 01:33.640 --> 01:40.020 to see in the RHCSA certification. The difference here in the RHCE exam is that 34 01:40.020 --> 01:40.760 we are performing 35 01:40.760 --> 01:44.400 all of these types of tasks that we would do in this particular exam. 36 01:44.400 --> 01:49.050 But now we are being asked to do those tasks via automation using Red Hat Ans 37 01:49.050 --> 01:50.040 ible Engine. 38 01:50.040 --> 01:54.870 So whilst the RHCSA examination might ask you to configure new users on the 39 01:54.870 --> 01:55.640 system the 40 01:55.640 --> 02:01.520 RHCE exam will ask you to do the same type of thing this time using Ansible. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000 40 01:55.640 --> 02:01.520 RHCE exam will ask you to do the same type of thing this time using Ansible. 41 02:01.520 --> 02:04.760 Now if we go into the actual objectives here we get a little bit more detail 42 02:04.760 --> 02:05.280 about what 43 02:05.280 --> 02:08.680 should actually be studying. Here are the actual tasks that we are expected to 44 02:08.680 --> 02:09.440 understand. 45 02:09.440 --> 02:15.040 Notice these are very very similar to what we see in RHCSA. Configuring local 46 02:15.040 --> 02:15.760 storage, 47 02:15.760 --> 02:20.360 managing users, basic security, configuring file systems, that type of thing. 48 02:20.360 --> 02:20.560 But doing 49 02:20.560 --> 02:23.790 it with this understanding of automation. So we are going to be looking at all 50 02:23.790 --> 02:24.080 of these 51 02:24.080 --> 02:28.130 components of Ansible. Things like the inventory, how we can use modules, what 52 02:28.130 --> 02:28.800 variables are, 53 02:28.800 --> 02:32.310 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 53 02:28.800 --> 02:32.310 how to use loops and conditional statements, that type of thing. We are going 54 02:32.310 --> 02:32.520 to learn 55 02:32.520 --> 02:36.700 how we can use rows within Ansible and leverage something known as Ansible 56 02:36.700 --> 02:37.600 Galaxy. And how 57 02:37.600 --> 02:41.920 we can set up what is known as the Ansible control node which is basically the 58 02:41.920 --> 02:42.320 device 59 02:42.320 --> 02:46.380 on the system that is running Ansible that is performing the Ansible automation 60 02:46.380 --> 02:47.000 . And 61 02:47.000 --> 02:51.040 we are going to learn how we can perform those tasks on these managed nodes. So 62 02:51.040 --> 02:51.640 very important 63 02:51.640 --> 02:55.490 we will get to see how we can actually use SSH keys for passwordless 64 02:55.490 --> 02:56.680 authentication, 65 02:56.680 --> 03:00.040 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 65 02:56.680 --> 03:00.040 how we can elevate a privileges on these managed devices that type of thing. We 66 03:00.040 --> 03:00.720 will talk about 67 03:00.720 --> 03:04.170 something known as Ansible Navigator, we will talk about creating plays and 68 03:04.170 --> 03:04.880 playbooks. 69 03:04.880 --> 03:08.820 As well as a whole bunch of other details including how we can also templatise 70 03:08.820 --> 03:09.640 configuration 71 03:09.640 --> 03:15.120 files and protect secret data using a utility known as Ansible Vault. So we are 72 03:15.120 --> 03:15.280 going to 73 03:15.280 --> 03:18.340 have a lot of fun within this course. However the very first thing that we are 74 03:18.340 --> 03:18.640 going to 75 03:18.640 --> 03:22.890 have to do is to begin building out our lab environment and that begins by 76 03:22.890 --> 03:23.560 getting a 77 03:23.560 --> 03:26.480 copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.