Getting started with Ansible 07 - The 'when' Conditional

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 #7, we take a look at differentiating our playbook based on the distribution of the target.

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[soyalvdev]

I love to learn best practices from the beginning to get used to work properly to face a real job with confidence. Thanks for that. After the job is done, you git it. Just like breathing, you just do it.

[MVPMoeever]

Thank you thank you for making this so simple and clear. I love the pace and clarifications of what all the modules and abbreviations mean. Best video on Ansible so far.

[georgesmith]

Smashing T-shirt, Jay :). Thumbs-up just for the T-shirt, before watching the video :)

[Johann]

Cool! Started to be creative with my small farm even before the end of the couse. Very usefull. Thank you.

[hoangphuloctruong]

So grateful for this useful series. Wish you all best things

[LudoArts]

Hi Jay, great tutorial again! Kudos!
There's a little flaw in this video though. On the steps in de playbook where you update_cache, you are testing against instead of "ansible_distibution"
Appearantly it still works though ;-)
Regards, Ludo

[davidtalturejman]

Youre amazing !! Thank you for this series its really good and i find it so usefull!!

[bongkem]

great video, very simple yet useful, thanks man !!

[DanCalloway]

Great addition to my learning of ansible. Awesome!

[Ms.Robot.]

You included so much other info, I totally missed the when condition.

[nahum]

Hey there Jay, thanks for the great video!!!, i was wondering if you can elaborate on how to add Centos 8 machine to the Ansible that i have on my Ubuntu 18.04.

[kjakobsen]

I'm watching a video on ansible, and the most puzzling thing was: " How the f... did he cut and paste in nano?? ;-)

[rohitnaidu]

Sir, I know when condition in runbook what it will do .. but my question was like when: {how to know here what to write} from ansible facts we have to choose.

[shivakarki]

Hello sir, How do I compare if variable passed as a parameter exists in (output stored in) register? The register: policies (is in json format. )

[Cytrencia]

How can I create multiple VM with static IP's in Windows10 with VirtualBox just like in this series? Tried but couldn't make it...

[GorditoCrunchTime]

Is there a difference between "git push origin main" and "git push origin master"? I noticed in earlier videos you went with "main" and now it's "master"

[bilalhussain]

Teach me anisble and git at the same time 🤣🤣

[Pault]

Is anyone else getting the error "fatal: [10.0.0.21]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unsupported parameters for (dnf) module: when Supported parameters include: allow_downgrade, autoremove, bugfix, conf_file, disable_excludes, disable_gpg_check, disable_plugin, disablerepo, download_dir, download_only, enable_plugin, enablerepo, exclude, install_repoquery, install_weak_deps, installroot, list, lock_timeout, name, releasever, security, skip_broken, state, update_cache, update_only, validate_certs"}"?

[MrDjegsi]

Hi, l have RedHat 8 and after watching this tutorrial httpd is not getting installed ?, how l can troubleshoot ?

[danielstellmon]

Apt then when feels backwards. I'm used to condition first.