Ansible 101 - Episode 15 - Final LIVE Q&A

Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) answers questions from Ansible 101 viewers, gives away his copy of Ansible for DevOps to a lucky viewer, and concludes the Ansible 101 series!

Contents:

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:08 - Intro
00:04:46 - Ansible 101 retrospective
00:17:00 - Ansible best practices
00:19:40 - Bootstrapping computers with Ansible
00:22:48 - Ansible for Kubernetes
00:24:56 - Where to store variables
00:26:44 - Running Ansible in CI/CD and Docker
00:29:14 - Monorepo vs many repos for automation
00:31:28 - Organizing tasks for apps vs implementations
00:33:51 - SSH forwarding or proxying in VMware
00:35:38 - Managing isolated servers in DMZ
00:36:28 - Writing tasks based on facts
00:40:10 - Installing AWX in Kubernetes
00:42:50 - When shouldn't Ansible be used
00:45:05 - WinRM through multiple Linux bastions
00:45:51 - Multi-host Molecule testing
00:48:24 - Managing SSH users and keys
00:49:43 - Running roles on specific hosts
00:52:36 - Organizing playbooks - blocks, tags, environments
00:55:23 - Visualizing Ansible playbooks
00:58:31 - Connecting through multiple SSH bastions
00:59:32 - Templating filenames with Jinja
01:00:44 - Better output for debugging
01:02:35 - Jeff's pivot from PHP to Python, Ansible, K8s
01:05:05 - Contributing to Ansible
01:06:31 - AWX or Tower on a Raspberry Pi 4
01:09:20 - Ansible with GitLab CI
01:11:43 - Using 'block' in playbooks
01:12:37 - Building Ansible modules
01:14:33 - Book giveaway
01:16:08 - What's next?
01:18:32 - Outtro

[ShizukanaEntertainment]

It has been a pleasure watching this series during 2024. Even though technology moves quick, I think that the core understanding for Ansible still holds up by participating in this course. Highly recommend it! Thanks a lot, Jeff!

[jineshpatel]

Thanks my Ansible Guru. Great series. !!

[mmgc]

Thank you very much for all the knowledge shared Jeff, I took a hands-on ansible course previous to your 101 series and I learned a lot from both.

[KingZero]

thanks for making this series, looking forward to watching your other videos as well

[Akshay-rclq]

Thanks Mentor !! Because of you I'm able to automate multiple time consuming tasks.

[hcjkruse]

I missed the live stream. Thanks for summarizing and answering my questions. Certainly going to look into The molecule blog post you mentioned.

[ponnurangamh]

From Pondicherry, India. Happy New Year Jeff. This is an amazing 15:39:24 hours video playlist. Thank you so much for your efforts and time during such period. Really want to thank you as a part of the Linux and Open source community. I couldn't make a donation as of now or i couldn't buy your book but i will. God should bless you and your family with healthy and a happy future. 🙏

[somarko]

Hello @Jeff Geerling

Could you please let me know how to work with Provisioning callbacks with Clouds such as GCP/AWS/Azure

[hcjkruse]

I sponsored on github because I want to:
-pay for his Leanpub books, which I did not pay nearly enough.
-pay for his free Youtube courses which in person would cost me 1000s of dollars.
-pay for saved time by using Ansible role roles and vagrant boxes which would cost me a few days to create myself when starting.
-The set of standard Ansible roles give me a flying start in automating at work and home and provide guidance in writing my own roles.

[KPSrinivasa]

Jeff Geerling, do you know how to run filter plugins as login user from ansible awx, because when I launch template from ansible awx, i am calling plugins to modify few files but it's failing to do because those plugins are executed as root only even though i am login as non root

[petergebirgslok]

Hello, Jeff,

thank you for the great videos/streams. I could learn a lot.
is there a way or module in ansible to check at certain intervals if the service on the server is still available?
E.g. i want to check every 30 seconds if the DHCP service of my server is still online and if not a playbook should be executed.
Maybe you can give me a keyword, which i can search for?

[balamuralireddy]

Thanks Jeff. This is great video..

Can you make some git and github videos?

[marckkoooo]

Just bought your book ansible for devops dude, thanks for the videos i just started watching them and they helped me understand the basics of ansible, and now with the book and the rest of the videos I will hopefully learn and get a job in a few months, any advice for me? would love to hear from you

[TheMrJoshua]

Im sure there's a lot of people watching you from Iran as well
The chart does not showing that, because youtube is banned here
Much love from Iran <3