Ansible Lightspeed and Development Technical Workshop
IMPORTANT TO NOTE
This is the 4-hour version of this workshop. For the shorter 90-minute 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:
- Student has completed the Ansible Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workshop
- Student has completed the Write your first playbook interactive lab
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Student has completed the Red Hat training course Ansible Basics: Automation Technical Overview
- A basic understanding of working with Linux systems
- A basic understanding of Visual Studio Code. [Available for MacOS, Windows and Linux]
- Attendees must bring/use a laptop with ADMIN rights and the ability to SSH to a lab environment hosted in a public cloud.
- Must bring/use a laptop with Chrome 73+, Firefox 60+, Edge 40+, or Safari 12+ installed.
There is no student prep work required prior to the workshop.
Presentation Deck
- Google Slides - For Red Hat employees
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 ⏱️ 4 hours)
| Activity | Link | Estimated Time |
|---|---|---|
| Slides: Introduction + Workshop Brief | 🖥️ Google Slides | ⏱️ 10 minutes |
| Lab 1: Get started with ansible-builder | 🚀 Launch Lab | ⏱️ 30 minutes |
| Slides: Introduction to Red Hat Lightspeed and lab brief | 🖥️ Google Slides | ⏱️ 10 minutes |
| Lab 2: Get started with Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant | 🚀 Launch Lab | ⏱️ 30 minutes |
| Slides: Introduction to Ansible-sign and lab brief for lab 3 | 🖥️ Google Slides | ⏱️ 10 minutes |
| Lab 3: Sign and verify projects with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 🚀 Launch Lab | ⏱️ 40 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 Ansible Lightspeed
| 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.
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