Services Management & Automation

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Connect Linux service administration with repeatable Ansible automation.

EX358 RHEL 9.4 · AAP 2.4

Before you begin

Expected: RHCE-level skills and Ansible. This is a skills expectation, not an RHCE credential prerequisite. RH358 is recommended.

Planned course outline

1. Network clients

   • Static/dynamic IPv4 and IPv6

2. Firewall access

   • Service and port rules

3. Service confinement

   • SELinux labels and booleans

4. Process lifecycle

   • Startup enablement and prevention

5. Link redundancy

   • Persistent network bonds

6. Name services

   • Caching/authoritative DNS and reverse zones

7. Address allocation

   • DHCP ranges, reservations, IPv4/IPv6

8. Printing

   • Network print queues

9. Mail forwarding

   • Relay and clients

10. Database operations

    • MariaDB access, queries, backup/restore

11. Web delivery

    • Apache, NGINX, HTTPS, virtual hosts, caching, HAProxy

12. Block sharing

    • iSCSI target/client access

13. Unix file sharing

    • NFS exports and mounts

14. SMB sharing

    • Shares, identities and multiuser mounts

15. Repeatable service automation

    • Playbooks, inventories, variables, RHEL system roles

Lessons and labs are not available yet. This preview describes planned coverage.

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