Course Overview:
Through hands-on labs, you will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, and manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault. This course will also teach you how to deploy and use Red Hat® Ansible Tower to centrally manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles; perform basic maintenance and administration of the Ansible Tower installation; and configure users and teams and use them to control access to systems, projects, and other resources through role-based access controls. You will learn to use Ansible Tower’s visual dashboard to launch, control, and monitor Ansible jobs; use the Ansible Tower application programming interface (API) to launch jobs from existing templates; automatically schedule Ansible jobs; and dynamically update host inventories.
Course Objectives:
- Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts
- Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad hoc commands
- Write effective Ansible playbooks
- Protect sensitive data used by tasks with Ansible Vault.
- Install and configure Ansible Tower for enterprise Ansible management
- Use Ansible Tower to control access to inventories and machine credentials by users and teams
- Create job templates in Ansible Tower to standardize playbook execution.
- Centrally launch playbooks and monitor and review job results with Ansible Tower
Course Outline:
- Introduce Ansible
- Deploy Ansible
- Implement playbooks
- Manage variables and inclusions
- Implement task control
- Implement Jinja2 templates
- Implement roles
- Configure complex playbooks
- Implement Ansible Vault
- Troubleshoot Ansible
- Install Ansible Tower and describe Ansible Tower’s architecture
- Create users and teams for role-based access control
- Create and manage inventories and credentials
- Manage projects for provisioning with Ansible Tower
- Construct advanced job workflows
- Update inventories dynamically and compare inventory members
- Maintenance and administration of Ansible Tower
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 5 Days
Prerequisites:
- Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent experience
Target Audience:
This course is designed for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, and network administrators needing to automate configuration management, application deployment, and intraservice orchestration at an enterprise scale.
TechNow has been training IT, programming, and Cyber Security for over 28 years. To stay competitive and to adequately secure an enterprise, organizations need to move towards the DevOps Model. DevOps breaks down barriers between the developer and operations teams to improve collaboration and communication.
DevOps is radically changing the way organizations design, build, deploy, and operate online systems. Development and Operations teams come together to move requirements through a continuous workflow.
DevOps leaders deploy hundreds of changes every day, utilizing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to leave their competitors behind. As DevOps becomes commonplace, organizations need to evolve their security practices to the DevOps Model.
Here is our list of DevOps related courses.
Course Overview:
This course is developed for those individuals seeking to pass the Project Management Institute’s PMI-ACP Exam. PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® is one of the newest certifications offered by PMI and is expected to become the industry standard certification for agile over the next few years. The PMI-ACP® certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or even potential employers that students are ready and able to lead in this new age of product development, management, and delivery.
While preparing you for the exam, you will explore various approaches to agility including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming (XP), and Test-Driven Development (TDD). By the end of the course, you’ll have mastered the practices and techniques that Agile practitioners use to improve team performance, resolve problems and engage in continuous process improvements and be equipped with job-ready skills.
This course provides students with 21 contact hours in agile practices to help attain the Project Management Institute (PMI)® credential. PMI® and PMI-ACP® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
Attendees to PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Prep Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 4 Days
Course Objectives:
- Agile Principles and Mindset
- Value-driven delivery
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team performance
- Adaptive planning
- Problem detection and Resolution
- Continuous Improvement
Prerequisites:
- Secondary degree
- 21 contact hours of training in agile practices
- 12 months of general project experience within the last 5 years. A current PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement but is not required to apply for the PMI-ACP
- 8 months of agile project experience within the last 3 years
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Course Overview: Clear and detailed discussion on the following course content:
- What is the Agile Adaptive Methodology versus the Predictive (waterfall) Methodology?
- The Agile Value Proposition, by explanation of the Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles.
- What is the Scrum Framework by explanation of Scrum Roles, Ceremonies and Artifacts?
- What are the artifacts of Product Planning, Release Planning and Sprint Planning?
- What are the Agile impacts to corporate team structures and stakeholder alignment?
- What are Agile myths and why an Agile transformation will fail?
- What are Agile (hybrid) tailoring considerations?
Attendees to PM-221: Agile Overview for Executives and Leaderswill receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 1 Days
Course Objectives: Are you and executive or leader in your organization and interested in learning about Agile principles? This course details the Agile framework that uses an adaptive life cycle, specifically related to using the Scrum approach.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand an overview of the main aspects that leadership must know to implement strategic opportunities with Agile principles for product quality and on-time product delivery
- Participants will dive into understanding the strategic and tactical elements of implementing Agile and Scrum into their organization
- Receive details on how to understand the organizational impact that the Agile transformation could have on the different aspects of your current business processes
Target Student:
- Designed specifically for leaders and senior managers or anyone wanting to understand the high-level basics of the Agile Framework
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Course Overview:
This two-day course will provide foundational level knowledge on cloud concepts; core Azure services; security, privacy, compliance, and trust; and Azure pricing and support.
NOTE: This course provides an Azure pass and time for you to participate in hands-on labs. The content for this course aligns to AZ-900 exam objective domain
TechNow has worked worldwide enterprise infrastructures for over 20 years and has developed demos and labs to exemplify the techniques required to demonstrate cloud technologies and to effectively manage security in the cloud environment
Attendees to AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
Course Duration: 3 days
Course Outline:
- Cloud Concepts
- Core Azure Services
- Security, Privacy, Compliance, And Trust
- Azure Pricing and Support
Lab Objectives:
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- Create a virtual machine
- Deploy Azure container instances
- Create a virtual network
- Create blob storage
- Create a SQL database
- Implement an Azure IoT Hub
- Implement Azure Functions
- Create a web app
- Create a VM with a Template
- Create a VM with PowerShell
- Create a VM with CLI
- Secure network traffic
- Implement Azure key vault
- Create an Azure Policy
- Manage access with RBAC
- Manage resource locks
- Implement resource tagging
- Exploring the Trust Center
- Use the Azure Pricing Calculator
- Use the Azure TCO Calculator
- Open a Support request
- Calculate composite SLAs
- Access Azure Preview features
Prerequisites :
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- There are no prerequisites for taking this course. Technical IT experience is not required however some general IT knowledge or experience would be beneficial.
- This course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Azure.
- This course primarily uses the Azure portal to create services and does not require scripting skills.
- Students in this course will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications, such as Azure Administrator.
- This course provides an Azure pass and optional lab environment.
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