Ansible For Network Engineers: Getting Started In Less Than 30 Minutes!

In this video, we'll show you how to get started with Ansible for network engineers in less than 30 minutes! Ansible is a versatile tool that can be used to manage networks and systems, and this tutorial will walk you through the basics of using Ansible.

If you're looking for a quick way to learn how to use Ansible for network engineers, then this video is for you! We'll show you how to get started with Ansible in just a few minutes, and by the end you'll be able to manage networks and systems with Ansible easily!

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🕘Timestamps🕘
📕00:00 - Introduction
📕00:35 - Basics of Ansible
📕03:53 - Installing Ansible
📕08:40 - Ansible CFG file
📕11:08 - Ansible Inventory
📕14:35 - Ansible PING test
📕16:55 - Ansible Playbook
📕21:45 - Creating custom Playbook

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[TheNetworkBerg]

Pinned comment with some reference material:
(Hahaha I also noticed that instead of saying Indentation I kept saying Indenture, must be recording stress and making content at 3AM in the morning or maybe writing playbooks feels like servitude hahaha! But you get what I mean. Make sure your spaces are where they need to be :P)

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[einszweidrei]

I discovered your channel a bit late but i am enjoying your content a lot and this is very useful for my job. Thanks.

[mielushelheureux]

Thank you so much. We need more tutorials like this.

[Egg-seqn]

I've always been curious about Ansible! Thanks for the rundown.

[m-electronics]

How long you needed to understand ansible basics the first time. It wouldn't go in my head

[maigonis.elleris]

This can be deployed on even small SBC (like rpi, radxa, opi kind) or as docker on tik itself.

[RogerPerkin]

Nice video - another easy way to install Ansible is by using pip - >> python3 -m pip install --user ansible

[artpietahcreative]

Hey, Is it possible to configure two mikrotik routers such that one acts as the radius server of hotspot users in the other router without using usermanager?? Kindly help

[antoniomax]

Can u add video about shadowsoks/vtray/Trojan ... In container on microtik?
Its possible?

[manfredklassen]

Is there a way to set hosts parameters that can ssh into a mikrotik that is NATed behind another device ex: public port 8222 private port on mikrotik is 22

[vinvvinv]

Hi, can you please make a video & explain the writing/structure of Ansible playbook & Terraform .tf in a simple manner & in layman's terms, like when & where to add spaces, hyphens, what is variable, etc it's a bit confusing...I am not from a programming background and hence find it difficult to understand. please it's a request, do reply

[m-electronics]

Every time when I watch videos like this I think I must start with ansible also. But when you don't have enough time it's not very nice to do it😢

[EricNiconovich]

You don't need sudo when you make or edit files your user has permission to. Additionally, the server keys vyos was using in your video were not RSA keys, they are ed25519.

[SiBex_ovh]

*) In past I use TheDude > unit > RMB and run script with parameters from unit like IP Public & IP internal and generate scripts and send that to unit and run...
*) Now, I use massive sending script.auto.rsc via ftp - when ros receive .auto.rsc via ftp then this script is self-running ! and on the end of file, if all operation are good, then I remove it and .log . Next massive ftp do 'ls' to verify if remote file are removed, if not then I have one report file with not done scripting units to check what happend.
*) Please do next video about Ansible who will send .rsc file > /import file.rsc with self-remove as last action > report units who not finish job, when script is still on the units. This give alternative for my setup.

[richardallsopp]

For anyone that cares you can run Ansible on Windows via WSL.

[Jomster]

Bro, has anyone ever told you you like like the IT version of Joshua Weissman?

[jairunet]

I am sorry, I am not sure what the purpose of this video is... This whole video is an oops in my sincere opinion. Some candid suggestions, treat your videos as close as a real-world scenario, e.g. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or 22.04 LTS, and prepare to explain that it is recommended to install Ansible via pip3 as it is a python based tool and it is not good practice to install the versions other than the ones from pip3, also have at least the plugins for nano or vim that will help with the indentation of the YAML files, last but not least, use at least a production like a version of the network OS, a rolling version of VyOS is a terrible choice. Best of luck.

[ThomasSmoke]

yaml is another abomination with a white space based structure which is easy only for programmers building parsers for it.

[Caliber]

p.s. it was developed by Michael de Haan and acquired by RedHat. They do that a lot with great software ;-)