i automated my home lab (and CLOUD) with Ansible

With one, simple request to Alexa, I can deploy lab machines to Proxmox, AWS, and Linode with Ansible!! I’ve automated my entire lab creation process!! In this video, I’m going to tell you an automation story, a tale of how I tried to automate everything and….went a little crazy in the process. But it was amazing and honestly…kind of addicting. I’ll also show you how you can automate your lab as well.

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0:00 ⏩ Intro
0:59 ⏩ Level 1 Laziness unlocked
2:02 ⏩ I should’ve gone to Ansible Fest
2:47 ⏩ Level 2 of Laziness, deploying proxmox
5:24 ⏩ Level 3 Laziness using slack
9:44 ⏩ Level 4 of Laziness using Alexa
12:18 ⏩ See it in Action!!

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[NetworkChuck]

Automate Your STUFF


0:00 ⏩ Intro
0:59 ⏩ Level 1 Laziness unlocked
2:02 ⏩ I should’ve gone to Ansible Fest
2:47 ⏩ Level 2 of Laziness, deploying proxmox
5:24 ⏩ Level 3 Laziness using slack
9:44 ⏩ Level 4 of Laziness using Alexa
12:18 ⏩ See it in Action!!

[bendorman]

You know you're a computer geek when you spend a week to automated something that takes less than 5 minutes to setup

[tramcrazy]

Liking the new levelled structure of videos - this vid and the Halloween special.
Also, the Alexa part was AWESOME.

[Rootjunkycom]

Watching you nerd out big time on this was super cool. You could see your excitement and the fun you had creating it. Great video.

[ringbolditakoon]

you're a genius, funny and energetic chuck . I mean come on look at me now from nothing to something bigger just because of your tutorials. all your videos are clear, funny and catchy. you deserve more than just credit bro. thanks for being there,

[nandanray]

The reason it didnt make the vm is because ansible is stateful. It matches the remote system to the state we are mentioning in the playbook. So if the vm is already present ansible sees that there is nothing to change as the state we mentioned is already fulfilled. So randomizing the VM name with IP address was the best route to go. Thanks Chuck. You were the reason i shifted from Civil Engineering to working as a cloud devops engineer. You the man.

[roro]

This is so damn cool! Outstanding work Chuck! Well done. 👏

[miguelbaezquezada]

Love your content keep up the good work

[mrknaldhat]

Regarding getting the IP of a VM, you could also just ensure qemu-guest-agent is installed in the VM's. Then proxmox can simply "ask the VM" for it. Awksome vid as always!

[davidtalturejman]

Amazing video like always Chuck, Thank you so much for the great content!!!

[mohamedhabas]

Thank you for always making tech fun to watch :)

[RoughGanome]

I used Ansible to spin up three dvwa instances behind a load balancer and a jump box (red team) with splunk logging. Awesome automation!

[CraigWhargoul]

LOL! DId the table actually break?!?!?

[dylanledbetter]

Awesome vid! Love that you worked with Redhat. I use ansible quite a bit. In the future if you wanted more IAC you could define vm names and ipaddress ahead of time in group/host vars and automate them by name with a custom inventory file. A bit of a different approach. thanks for sharing!

[obentheodore]

The Alexa part was Awesome. I'm about to try that now. Great video brothah, thanks and I LOVE YOUR

[nexusnui]

I it should be possible to use Avahi to anounce your instance through mdns. That could be easier. After you found the instance through mdns you can remove the Avahi service of your VM, if you do not want to use it.

[MehrdadGivehchi]

Your videos crack me up… thank u for all the educational videos.

[anirudhsowrirajan]

This is exactly what I've been waiting for..
Automating proxmox sounds super fun and cool.

[scriptbytes]

I love the Alexa integration! Awesome video man!

[Asherstitusworld]

Super video Chuck Your Videos Are awesome And informative