Ansible 101 - Episode 3 - Introduction to Playbooks

Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) dives deeper into Ansible, exploring the basic unit of automation, Ansible Playbooks.

This episode will follow material from chapters 3 and 4 in the bestselling Ansible book, Ansible for DevOps.

Contents:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:25 - Questions from last episode
00:08:20 - Multi-host ad-hoc orchestration
00:19:02 - Using different modules ad-hoc
00:24:38 - Intro to Playbooks
00:28:18 - Comparing to shell scripts
00:32:35 - Moving commands into YAML playbooks
00:39:28 - Making playbooks more Ansible-ish
00:53:02 - Running the Apache playbook
00:56:24 - Limiting playbook runs to specific servers
01:00:14 - Outtro

[dustinb]

These videos, coupled with the book, are a fantastic combination. Thank you, Jeff! Great series!

[diegonayalazo]

Asking the Lord to bless you and your family. Deeply grateful for your videos.

[mauromosczynski]

Congratulations for this excellent presentation.

[jayhopt]

I just want to point out (as well as thanking you for this series) that you mentioned hitting 7500 subs, and were aiming for 10K, hopefully when the pandemic ends.

A year and a half later, we still have the pandemic, but you have definitely met your goal and then some, at 225K! Love your content, both the educational as well as the entertaining content!

[martinmusli]

New Year, 2021, your stuff is still relevant to me :) Keep it up

[girsnoopy]

Jeff I bought your book and have been following along with your videos. I never comment, but just wanted to say your videos and books are top notch. Keep up the good work, and keep making videos!

[angelgutierrez]

who could actually dislike these type of videos? I mean these videos are very good and very educational as well!

[dlringor]

Thank you for the many lessons Jeff! I'm from the Philippines.

[mathewkargarzadeh]

Thanks Jeff !!. appreciate your time posting this. you are the Man !!

[helioradial]

the fact that you mention you know how to "google" got me. well done, thank you for the fantastic content.

[rxmas]

320k users - I'm proud to be a subscriber to all of your content. Thank for all you do. I've learned a LOT from you.

[amichubby]

Awesome sharing. We will support you from Singapore.

[onlygameguru]

This is so useful, I ended up buying the DevOPs book. Great advertising.

[domemvs]

Watching this as he has 118k subs. Awesome! Well deserved!

[antuelle]

Great work Jeff, even if I already do lots of advanced things with Ansible and AWX, this is still helpful. Keep it up.

[naimarshad]

Hi Jeff, Thanks for putting some nice work up here. I really appreciate it, it could really benefit me in many wayas.

[StormWolf]

Great tutorial, thanks a lot.
To anyone who doesn't have access to an EC2 instance, just just launch a VM with vagrant, as shown in the previous tutorial, and have the ansible playbook executed on that VM. This seems pretty obvious, but it took me 10 minutes to realize.

[Brac]

Great job Jeff. Little Mermaid story brought back memories with my Daughter back in the day !!

[daviddunkelheit]

Good stuff I am working on my capstone project during this pandemic to build a homelab/studio/cyberrange
Using my on-premise bare-metal gear. I am tracking this series to reinforce some things to work with myself.

[pmirji]

awesome tutorial...thank you for doing this