Getting Started with Ansible (Part 1)

Ansible is an automation platform being developed by Red Hat, and it makes it easy to control large numbers of Linux servers in a consistent way. Today, I'll be demonstrating the pre-usage setup required to use Ansible in your environment, then I'll write a simple playbook to demonstrate some Ansible modules for performing basic tasks.
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[needMoreInput]

You have had a year or so with ansible. You have learned much. Please make more ansible videos! This is so good and do not be afraid to go in to deep. Spare no details. A lot of yt only shows the shallow stuff. Most people do not need help with basics so try not to omit things that come to your mind!

[ruben]

You're by far the best professor i've found on Youtube ever! You explain really, really well. I wish i had a professor like you back in my study days.

[antoonvereecken]

30:49 You're doing great. Showing errors, clarifying debug messages & solving the issue is really helpful. You learn so much more out of mistakes vs 'happy flows'.
Thank you for your effort!

[ilshatabdulmanov]

Thanks for a great intro-level video. I'd almost given up searching for a comprehensive tutorial on Ansible on Youtube when I found this one.
Good job !

[joelpm]

I was looking for a good video on Ansible and you explained the setup so well with helpful anecdotes...I look forward to checking out your other videos.

[최강재-yc]

Hey you are the best among all the others. Seriously. You never miss an explanation even that is just flag and most people like me just use it without trying to know what it is.
The best tutorial I have ever seen. Thanks so much

[jcramond]

Grats on your RH certification mate, well done!

[diarmaidmac]

Only 3 mins in, but very clear intro on what ansible is!

[rajarka]

Great content, Please do more videos on Ansible like the full course, Thanks!!

[bhupendrasinghsuri]

Please make more videos like these...Thanks

[DevilDriver]

Great series and content, keep them coming. I've really enjoyed your take on ansible, nicely done.

[环球体育游览]

Great video. In depth understanding the fundamental.

[mithubopensourcelab]

Since you are doing the exercise on Public Cloud, especially on Linode or Digital Ocean etc, ssh server is per-installed. For physical node, SSh server has to be installed on each node.

[Borsting]

Damn, you ar edoing Ansible, and just at the right time! You rock, Jacob!

[Dvalin]

Please do more videos. The way you teach it, its so easy a caveman can do it!! Please!!

[agarwal]

I've learned so much from this tutorial.
Thank You for this😇😇

[elviveruari]

@ NerdOnTheStreet, hello, when did you found the ansible.cfg, because in most cases the file is empty and if you run ansible-config init --disabled > ansible.cfg, till is not the same like your default file

[mehransaeed]

Just a tip if managed node is unable to connect with control node even after adding the right permissions
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

add the new user ansible if created into the allowed users bit

[jasonking]

i am using amazon linux on aws and can not ssh to the hostname but can ssh with i.p.

[needMoreInput]

It is possible to create a directory/file with the desired permissions:
*mkdir -m 700 .ssh*
*install -m 600 /dev/null .ssh/authorized_keys*