What is Ansible?

How can you replace your repetitive, mundane IT tasks and become more productive and efficient?

In this lightboard video, Sai Vennam with IBM Cloud, visually explains how Ansible, an open source IT automation tool originally developed by Red Hat, can help you automate repetitive system administration tasks by walking through three key uses cases.

Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Provisioning use case
2:07 - Config management use case
2:41 - Declarative
3:29 - Ansible Playbook
6:22 - Agent-less
7:53 - Idempotent
9:04 - Community driven
10:32 - App deployment use case

#Ansible #ITAutomation #RedHat

[standout]

Sir, your self-confidence and the calm voice make it all!
Thank you for the beautiful explanation.

[autoheadroy]

Love your videos. Your way of explaining helps anyone who is technically challenged! Keep posting!

[nielssommer]

Great Videos Sai - the structured approach makes it much easier to understand

[aucestovara]

excellent explanation! Usually people that know as much as you do have problems explaining/teaching the subjecrt but that is not the case with you. Thank you for the clarity

[lahbaeil]

Thanks @IBM ! My preferred Youtube channel for explanations of new concepts

[rociorodriguez]

Like your videos and way of explaining everything. Simple and clear. Thanks a lot!!

[varunaws]

Thanks Sai, your way of explaining was really good and thanks for posting ... you are awesome

[XboxGamerkings]

Great video! This is a better explanation than I get at school :/

[akashdeshmukh]

Most informative video regarding basic idea of ansible.

[ernestlequimboh]

This is one of the best videos I have ever watch!

[pciege]

1. How do you make sure you have the correct inventory on all machines used to run Ansible?
2. How do you make sure you have the last version of the playbook?
3. How do you apply one version of the playbook to one group of hosts and another version to another group of hosts?

[jcxzpsl]

What a great overhead description! thanks

[shubhamnagure]

thank you so much for explaining so simply and beautifully

[orjichikah]

Once again, very helpful video, though I had difficulty following the teaching initially. Had to look up a more basic definition of Ansible and its use cases, before finally understanding. It all made sense in the end. Thank you.

[dylancochrane]

Fantastic and clear explanation, thanks so much.

[petchpaitoon]

Does Ansible is declarative or procedure type ? I was understad when we compare Ansible(precedure) vs Terraform (declarative)

[chriswalker]

Excellent Videos Sai. Much appreciated

[JakeTheMuss]

Could Ansible be implemented in Industrial scale and Mid scale Manufacturing, &/ or CnC Machines?

[timmycoates]

It's not clear what Ansible did to support the provision step. Can someone explain?

[andiidoode]

so, what is Ansible typically used for?