In today's complex and fast-paced IT landscape, the need for automation has never been greater. Organizations of all sizes are looking for solutions that can streamline their operations, enhance efficiency, and reduce errors. Ansible stands out as a powerful automation tool, hitting the mark on several key points that make it an ideal choice for teams of all backgrounds and expertise levels.

AI has taken center stage in the automation landscape, transforming how we develop and manage infrastructure. In this hands-on lab, you'll explore how to harness the innovative capabilities of Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant—a powerful generative AI service designed to accelerate your Ansible content creation and maintenance. Guided step-by-step, you'll set up and utilize this service within your local development environment using Visual Studio Code, empowering you to automate faster and smarter.

In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.

This lab focuses on using Ansible to efficiently manage F5 BigIP configurations. It covers setting up the development environment, working with Ansible inventory, creating playbooks for automating tasks on F5 BigIP devices, deploying configuration changes, and a bonus challenge of setting up an Active/Standby configuration and performing configuration synchronization. The lab aims to provide participants with hands-on experience in automating F5 BigIP configuration management using Ansible.

This lab is part of the Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth Learning Path and is designed to teach the user how to interface with NetBox as a source of truth for variable data and inventory.

Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into how it works together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.

This lab is intended for internal use only in the Ansible Automation Workshop. Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is an enterprise automation solution from Red Hat designed to join the power of Ansible Engine for automation with a suite of products that allow you to centralize, standardize, and operationalize your enterprise's automation at scale. This **hands-on** lab is designed to accompany the instructor-led workshop and provides exercises for practicing what you've learned about the Ansible Automation Platform ecosystem. The full instructional content is available in the [Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Automation Platform Learning Path](https://www.wwt.com/learning-path/infrastructure-automation-with-ansible-automation-platform), which includes these hands-on labs plus additional instruction to teach you about AAP.

Explore the fundamentals of Ansible Molecule in this hands-on lab, designed to introduce learners to automated testing for Ansible roles and playbooks. Participants will gain practical experience in setting up test scenarios, running Ansible Molecule's various stages from the command line, and integrating Ansible Molecule with a CICD pipeline.