Getting started with Ansible 09 - Targeting Specific Nodes

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 #9, we split our inventory file into groups, and look at how to run tasks on nodes based on their group.

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[elmehdifetouaki]

In my whole life, I've never woken up the next day with so much enthousiast just to continue a playlist, Man you are incredible !

[kamesh]

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[gwulfwud]

Best ansible tutorial ive found. Thank you for making this

[mathewkargarzadeh]

Great Thanks for you time teaching us something very valuable ( Ansible ). now a days, this is a skill-sets that every Dev-Ops and Sysadmin must poses. you must be a very nice person to dedicate your personal time sharing your knowledge. Much Appreciated !!. Mat

[MVPMoeever]

Excellent wok. Detailed, precise and clear explanation on when to use all the modules.

[Roachness]

I really have benefited from your videos. They are full of great information. I do think you could make them more concise by avoiding time saying things like, "that is beyond the scope of this video..." and just either stop talking about the topic and trust the users know by the title of the video what subjects you are covering in depth and which are ancillary, or say something quick like, "I have a separate video on that". Avoid time stating the obvious.

[TheWkd]

Thanks for the series it is very timely and we are a Red Hat shop, well mostly Windows but you know... One thing I found was that the code for updating CentOS wasn't actually updating the OS. Did some digging and the way that is recommended is to use name: "*" and state: latest. The update_only parameter just prevents additional packages from being installed. Just wanted to point that out for other newbs to Ansible.

[ayencoscolfield]

I cant thank you enough for all your work your video series really shared a lot of light on so many grey areas cant thank you enough, but hope am not sounding like holiver twist the series didn't cover "ansible dynamic inventory "would love it if you can cover that in subsequent videos.All the same you did an awesome job, kudos

[emoryotott]

Great video and series. Getting ready for RHCSA

[aidanamadaminova]

Thank you so much for your videos, sir! It was really really helpful!

[davidtalturejman]

Thanks for the content!! Youre really amazing!!

[alexmarchant]

wow im really getting in to this. Thank you.

[camerontgore]

Isn't Ansible going to run those tasks in sequence? Or is it smart enough to update the repos before running the dist-upgrade?

[fabrice]

First of all, thank you so much for posting such instructive videos.
But why not to keep using variables for the play that applies to web servers?

[byan]

Great series! Thanks. Just a note, the db_servers group does not include ubuntu-1 but ubuntu-2. You installed mariadb on ubuntu-2 but used ubuntu-1 to demonstrate the installation result. That was not quite accurate.

[Glatze]

ansible_distribution does not work with ubuntu 20.04.1.

[gopalthakur]

Hi Jay, Can we use Yum as the package manager for centos instead of dnf?

[georgesmith]

The name of this video should be targeting specific groups of nodes. Thumbs-up of course, everything else is great.

[rajaeelastname]

I prefer if the hosts file contained easy to remember names or the host name instead of IP addresses

[bettybunbun]

As a web developer I've always found devops to be a little dry and boring. This video series is one of the few times I've actually enjoyed learning about devops.