Getting Started with Ansible 08 - Improving your Playbook

Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you'll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In video #8, we look into a few ways we can clean up and consolidate the playbook we've been working with so far.

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[ipostwhateveriwant]

this is insanely clear and perfectly taught

[terencecheatom]

Wow, condensing those plays down to one was very impressive, and most importantly clearly explained!!!

[awframpton]

This is a well thought out and executed lesson!

[abessesmahi]

Thank you so much for this awesome series on Ansible.

[陳秉軒-cb]

Learning Ansible right now with the RH294 program, and they actually recommended declaring host-specific variables in another host_vars folder.
Just throwing this out there, not judging. Great work.

[MarkusEicher]

Very nice improvement with only one play and using the variables in the inventory file. I'm sure, there is another nifty solution to the pain to add the variables to every host in the inventory. Eager to continue with this great course. Thank you, Jay! 🤛

[nahum]

Thanks Jay. this series is awesome!!!. love the way you explain things! keep up this awesome job.

[sorin.n]

Superb!

This is the way to explain things. 👍

[mathewkargarzadeh]

Dear Jay, I loved it. what an incredible Ansible Series. Much appreciated!!. Thanks again. Mat.

[phillipcifone]

Thank you Jay! Really enjoying this series. Watching your videos and following along with all this cool stuff makes me feel like someday I might be able to become a system administrator.

[davidtalturejman]

Thank you man! Youre just awsome!! This content is so good
Love it

[alanabreu]

your videos are great, thank you for them. I am enjoying them all and learning lots!

[MVPMoeever]

Excellent. Thank you. so clearly explained.

[opeyemiojo]

I wish I can like 👍 the video multiple times

[williamweiler]

Notice how many views you maintain throughout the playlist? excellently executed lessons.

[DanCalloway]

Excellent! Ansible is a great admin tool for Sysadmins in a Linux shop.

[JoshuaKersey]

this is an excellent demo using the generic package module across various distributions when the package names vary. good job! keep sharing more.

i'm surprised to see a demo using nano for YAML. VIM is a lot more flexible and better suited for YAML imo. I haven't watched the other videos yet (and plan too), perhaps you explained why you use one over the other. Not judging here, just commenting.

thanks for sharing this series.

[amirdaydaychallenge]

Dear Jay, so far I love your video, the only point so far is that I didn't get how we can familiarize ourselves with Ansible commands. How do you know what you should use? I hope in the next video I can see it. Anyway thank you.

[shaded_red]

So when you consolidate update cache and install package in the same task, does the update cache get executed first or does the install? Or does it depend on the order in which we write it in the playbook?

[jester]

I can't find the update_cache parameter for the package module. Is it some kind of hidden parameter which actually works? Great video and the whole series by the way. Thank you!