Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Mastering Ansible Tower
Ansible Tower is now the standard for enterprise automation—and organisations are actively hiring specialists who can architect complex workflows at scale. This course cuts through the noise, teaching you the advanced patterns that separate junior operators from architects who command premium salaries.
AIU.ac Verdict: Ideal for DevOps engineers and systems architects ready to move beyond basic playbooks into production-grade automation. The 1h 53m runtime is genuinely condensed; you’ll need hands-on lab time afterwards to cement tower-specific concepts like RBAC and workflow orchestration.
What This Course Covers
You’ll progress through Ansible Tower’s core architecture—inventories, credentials, and job templates—before tackling advanced workflows that orchestrate multi-stage deployments. The course covers role-based access control (RBAC), survey-driven automation, and integration patterns with CI/CD pipelines, giving you the practical toolkit for enterprise environments where governance and auditability matter.
Matt Conran structures the content around real deployment scenarios: managing complex infrastructure changes, scaling automation across teams, and troubleshooting tower-specific issues. You’ll understand when to use workflows versus playbooks, how to design for idempotency at scale, and how tower’s API enables programmatic orchestration—skills directly tested in Red Hat certification exams.
Who Is This Course For?
Ideal for:
- DevOps engineers with Ansible experience: You’ve written playbooks; now learn tower’s enterprise layer—RBAC, workflows, and audit trails that production teams demand.
- Systems architects planning automation: Design scalable, governed automation frameworks. Tower’s workflow engine and credential management are essential for multi-team environments.
- Red Hat certification candidates: Direct alignment with EX447 exam objectives. Conran’s approach emphasises exam-relevant patterns without fluff.
May not suit:
- Ansible beginners: You need foundational playbook and inventory knowledge first. This assumes you’re comfortable with ansible-playbook CLI and basic YAML syntax.
- Learners seeking deep Python customisation: Tower focus means limited coverage of custom modules or plugin development. Choose a Python-focused Ansible course if that’s your goal.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Mastering Ansible Tower take?
The video content is 1 hour 53 minutes. However, expect 4–6 additional hours for hands-on labs and practice scenarios to prepare for certification or production use.
Do I need Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform installed to follow along?
Pluralsight provides sandboxed lab environments, so you can follow without local installation. For real-world application, you’ll want access to a tower instance—many organisations provide this for certification prep.
Will this course prepare me for the EX447 Red Hat exam?
Yes. The course covers core EX447 objectives: tower architecture, RBAC, workflows, and API integration. Combine it with official Red Hat documentation and hands-on labs for full exam readiness.
What’s the difference between this and standard Ansible training?
This focuses exclusively on Ansible Tower—the enterprise control plane. Standard Ansible courses teach playbook authoring; this teaches governance, multi-user orchestration, and production deployment patterns tower enables.
Course by Matt Conran on Pluralsight. Duration: 1h 53m. Last verified by AIU.ac: March 2026.
