Workshops

Ansible Lightspeed and Development Technical Workshop

IMPORTANT TO NOTE

This is the 90 minute version of this workshop. For the longer 4-hour session please 🔬 click here

This workshop is for the Ansible automation engineer or application developer. While their experience, skills, and job roles differ, both of these personas create automation. This includes writing Ansible Playbooks, Ansible Roles, and Ansible Content Collections and learning how to distribute these throughout the organization. This workshop will provide an opinionated experience for both of these roles.

The Ansible developer experience includes numerous capabilities to aid in the creation of Ansible automation content. This includes an Ansible plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio Code as well as generative AI (artificial intelligence) integrations such as Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant.

After finishing this lab you are ready to start taking advantage of the numerous Ansible content tools included in your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform subscription.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE

This workshop is focused on the automation development capabilities of Ansible and is highly focused on using an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), Visual Studio Code, as well as other various CLI tools that run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is highly encouraged to attend the Ansible Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workshop before attending this workshop.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE

This workshop requires a Red Hat employee instructor

Workshop Resources

Resource Link
Workshop content and exercises labs.demoredhat.com/exercises/lightspeed-4
Follow-up assets Follow-up assets spreadsheet
Post-event survey Post-event survey
Certain registration page & promotional email copy Registration page & promotional email copy
Presenter instructions and guide Presenter instructions and guide
Certain event banners Event banners (Google Drive)

Target audience

Anyone who is currently writing Ansible automation content such as Ansible Playbooks. This includes the Ansible for Red Hat Enterprise Linux personas including DevOps engineers, operations engineers, systems engineers, release engineers, system administrators, developers, operations staff, network engineers, security professionals, and anyone interested in IT automation.

Attendee Prerequisites

Student has one (1) of the following:

There is no student prep work required prior to the workshop.

Presentation Deck

Lab provisioner

All labs can be provisioned on the Red Hat Demo Platform. They can be provisioned separately with the links of each individual lab below or together on the multi-asset workshop section.

Lab Index (Estimate total time ⏱️ 90 minutes)

Activity Link Estimated Time
Slides: Introduction + Workshop Brief 🖥️ Google Slides ⏱️ 15 minutes
Lab 1: Get started with ansible-builder 🚀 Launch Lab ⏱️ 30 minutes
Slides: Introduction to Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant 🖥️ Google Slides ⏱️ 15 minutes
Lab 2: Get started with Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant 🚀 Launch Lab ⏱️ 30 minutes

Supplemental Lab

Lab Title Link Estimated Time
Sign and verify projects with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 🚀 Launch Lab ⏱️ 45 minutes

Demos

Any of the individual labs (that make up the workshop) can be used as a standalone demo.

Learning Resources

Documentation

Going Further

Additional material for Event-Driven Ansible

Title Type Link
Learn how to set up Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant—from installation and configuration to content creation. Step-by-step guide 📖 Read Guide
Red Hat talks to RedMonk Analyst material 🎥 Watch Interview
Explore this playlist of announcements and demo YouTube playlist 🎥 Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant

Ansible Workshop

This is an official Ansible Workshop

This workshop is maintained by the Red Hat Ansible Technical Marketing Team.
Please open an issues on Github

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