Getting started with Ansible 05 - Running elevated ad-hoc Commands

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 the fifth video, we take a look at more ad-hoc commands - but this time, commands that perform changes.

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[osielramirez]

These videos are gold, they'll make launching testing environments so much easier and faster. Thank you for making these!

[carloslizarralde]

so far this is the best series adds all the missing parts needed to really understand the tools that will help.

[similoluwaokunowo]

I am currently on the 6th video in this series, and I must say you are a very incredible teacher. It takes a lot of effort and kindness to design such a structured course and publish it for free. Thank you very much 💗

[MarkusEicher]

Thanks a lot Jay, that was pretty exciting. One thing I hope we will see later on in this series is how to use elevated privileges when the servers have different passwords for sudo. Great lessons so far! 👍

[farkhodazizov]

Thank you so much. God bless you and your family.

[RakeshShivayyaGuttedar]

This tutorial is absolutely more valuable than paid courses out there.Thank you for all your efforts !!

[davidraymond]

Nice video Jay, I’m totally new at Ansible, and I can see the potential to help me as sysadmin for my linux farm I need to managed. Thanks for sharing this 👍👌

[UnknownSendr]

Brilliant explanation, imo you're the jay z of config management tutorials.

[isaacmaag]

Love the tutorial. Could you make a terraform series as well?

[michaelfisher]

Great series so far, really easy to follow along in a lab. Also, does anyone else think Jay has a 'Better Call Saul' voice?

[mathewkargarzadeh]

Very Nice Jay. Thanks a million !!. Mat.

[dzonsmit]

9:51 same here but I didn't install tmux previously, I guess it came preinstalled with my ubuntu servers 22.04.
btw I would like to see Kubernetes series on your channel!

[omarshararhussein]

when I run ansible all -m apt -a update_cache=true --become --ask-become-pass i get WARNING updating cache and auto-installing missing dependency python apt followed by a failed error? any ideas anyone?

[brishavkuikel]

Hi Jay !! I am using my main machine (wsl ubuntu on Win 11 ) as the workstation and using virtual box I have created a host VM. In my case without specifying -u i cannot connect to host, but you are not specifying any particular user and it is still able to connect to the host why is that ? pls help someone

[PS]

Jay- Great video and simple explanation. Question: Where do you get various -a parameters?

[quidquopro]

Is it not better to setup an ansible user on the servers that are allowed to run escalated commands?

[jeffreyhiggason]

At 15:22 you show the command sudo apt dist-upgrade. Wouldn't the command be sudo apt-get dist-upgrade or sudo apt full-upgrade???? I didn't think that apt dist-upgrade would even work but obviously in your video it is...??

[NameCallingIsWeak]

Great series, thank you. Minor quibble, if you can pronounce the Phil Collins hit "Sussudio" you can also pronounce "sudo" correctly.

[abibatadesina]

Thank you for the wonderful video series. what is sudo password please?

[DavidBenOtto]

What's the name of the tool you're using to navigate between servers?