Gentle Introduction to Ansible
summary
Claims Ansible is agentless via SSH and runs on Python 2.7/3 environments, provisions cloud instances on AWS in 5–10 minutes, and applies repeatable configuration with YAML Playbooks, templates, modules and roles. Demonstrated workflow uses Ansible Vault for secrets, Ansible Galaxy to pull community roles, and a concrete example shows rolling out fail2ban across 70 servers in about 3 minutes. Notes Tower is commercial and RunDeck or Semaphore are free alternatives.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:30Who
- 2:45About me
- 5:40Challenges
- 8:00Interview
- 8:35Server Management
- 10:20Two sides of the coin
- 10:35The tool
- 12:10Agentless
- 13:50Provisioning
- 14:40Configuration Management
- 17:15CentOS Ubuntu
- 18:40Requirements
- 19:55Install Ansible
- 20:30Whats in Ansible
- 22:00Unstable Configuration
- 22:50Rules
- 24:20Group Names
- 25:10Table
- 26:35Basic Package
- 27:30Modules
- 27:50Command Shell
- 29:10Play Books
- 30:05Playbook
- 31:45Lazy Admin
- 32:25Rose
- 32:45Roles
- 33:05Download Roles
- 33:45User Interfaces
