Getting Started with Ansible on Azure

Cloud Advocate Jay Gordon discusses how to get started with Ansible on the Azure Cloud. You'll get the easy first steps to use Ansible on the Cloud Shell and create a Linux VM!

Install Ansible on Azure virtual machines

[JohnMatthew]

Great video, gets me up and running ASAP. I've been wanting a bootstrap way to build an Ansible VM and this video is simple and does it for me, thank you.

+1 Black Flag shirt

[christopheredwards]

I watched a lot of different videos and most of them used slides and screenshots to show what was going on. Thank you for actually doing the work and making it easier to understand what was happening!

[etherwxlf]

I know it's a year later but amazing video, Jay. For my Cloud Computing course I was tasked with researching an automation tool using a Cloud environment, and my choice was obviously Ansible with Azure. Your video really simplified the idea of how to use Ansible without leaving out the important details with it's use. It really helped me to understand what Ansible is and what it can do. Thank you!

[MrChillerKeks]

Thank you really. This is really helpfull to get a quick overview over ansible in Azure!

[friedkitchenrce]

Great Vid Jay! I’d really like to see using ansible to administrate the machines itself like setting up HA nginx, databases and best practices besides this which is only doing stuffs on azure resources.

[karimmoutiq]

Hi Jay, i just stumbeld across your video today, fristly thanks for this great information, secondly if you be that kind to answer my question: what exactly is the advantage of using Terraform/Ansible vs Powershell scripts ? seems like whatever you want to automate in does two modules you could just script it in powershell or am i missingt a point here ( really new to the cloudgang)

[shivramvarma]

How could I authenticate without using cloud shell only by using yaml

[srinivasreddymula]

when i try to create a resource group i am getting error like

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ImportError: No module named packaging.version
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to import the required Python library (packaging) on ACS's Python /usr/bin/python. Please read module documentation and install in the appropriate location. If the required library is installed, but Ansible is using the wrong Python interpreter, please consult the documentation on ansible_python_interpreter"}



please help me to sort out