Lab Setup

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This lab environment is pre-configured to ensure you can focus on learning and performing the key tasks without worrying about initial setup. Below are the details of the setup and resources provided.

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Pre-Configured Items:

  • The Ansible Automation Platform controller is already set up.

  • The required Execution Environment (Day2 EE) has been pre-created with the redhat.openshift and redhat.openshift_virtualization collections.

  • Necessary credentials to access the Virtual Machines are pre-configured in the AAP controller.

  • All VMs are running at the start of the lab.

OpenShift Environment Details:

Select the htpasswd_provider as the Log in with

Ansible Automation Platform Environment Details:

Gitea Repository Details:

VSCode and Lab Files Overview

Throughout the lab, you will create or update the following files to complete the exercises that are to be pushed to your Gitea repository:

  • tasks/main.yml: For calling the appropriate stop, start, and restart tasks.

  • tasks/stop_vm.yml: For stopping the VM.

  • tasks/start_vm.yml: For starting the VM.

  • tasks/restart_vm.yml: For restarting the VM.

  • tasks/snapshot_vms.yml: Creating Snapshot of the VM.

  • tasks/restore_vm_snapshots.yml: Restore VM from Snapshot.

  • manage_vm_playbook: A playbook to run the stop/start/restart tasks.

  • patch_vm_playbook.yml: A playbook to run the security updates of the RHEL VMs.

To create these files, you will use the Visual Studio Code editor.

With this setup, you’re ready to dive into the lab and focus on automating Day 2 operations for VMs on OpenShift Virtualization.

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