Ansible - A Beginner's Tutorial, Part 2

### Ansible, A Beginner's Tutorial, Part2
Learn how to use ansible to setup a web platform.

### Links to other parts
Part 2: ... this video ...

### Ansible Module Index:

### Table of Contents
# What are roles and playbooks?

# Creating the first role

# Defining the first task

# Creating the playbook

# Running ansible-playbook

# Result of playbook-run explained

# Adding additional packages

# Adding packages using the 'with_items' method.

# Copying files

# Removing default bashrc-files

# Information about the next video

[BensITLessons]

Please be aware: This video is from 2017 - most things should still work as shown, but there might be syntax changes here and there.

[sergewroclawski]

Genuinely the most clear introduction to ansible I've seen

[JohannesBrodwall]

At least three times, I found myself saying to myself "but what about...", just to see Ben answer my question next. Well done!

[richardgriffiths]

Great introduction, thank you!

If, like me, you're running RHEL based Linux, you can just switch out apt: for yum: and I think bind-utils is equivalent to dnsutils

[pokemanic]

As of Dec 2018, state=installed is being deprecated in favor of state=present

I like how your tutorial is laid out so far, thank you for making this!

[alisajjadraza]

Extremely helpful. I found this tutorial yesterday and today I am able to perform all the basic operations i wanted to . Thanks Ben

[ted]

I'm really enjoying these Ansible videos. Thanks!

[fugazi]

I agree with other comments here - clear and easy to follow instructions. I have followed your examples using 4 CentOS vm's and slowly worked my way through. Maybe when introducing new concepts, its worth declaring the syntax - like the preceeding hypens in the first playbook? Thank you!

[kingneutron]

0:42 PROTIP: ' mkdir -pv roles/basic/tasks ' will let you make the whole directory tree at once without repeating mkdir

[cyberfuzzy]

Yes, I am watching this video in 2021 and I will be too setting up my infrastructure as code with my logitec steering wheel instead of using vs code. Good tutorials, although syntax is deprecated. Kudos to Ben's

[music___nation]

Great Job ... a very well constructed tutorial for someone who is new to Ansible.

[a.p.]

Thank you so much. Your videos are so helpful!!

[cruepprich]

Excellent tutorial. Great, simple examples, and well explained. Thanks!

[twincam]

Excellent explanation and some very good example, I think you drive little fast for beginners, paused it few times.

[mironovsan]

Ansible v. 2.9.7 suggests, that using "with_items" is depricated. So the way to go is : "apt: pkg=git, vim, ntp state=present"

[GeorgeKirko]

So, so .. It could be better if you explain where did you get those modules(ansible-doc, online, etc..), and how to see all parameters available.. Cheers

[dgzwtps]

The font is so small the yml "-" dash looked like a dot "."

[davidnagy]

Hey. As i said im totally new to ansible. Could you tell me what can cause a "raw module does not support environment keyword" error??

[wagnerstefan]

Correct me, if I am wrong but, for me the "creates" equals (here) to "if [ ! -f /root/.bashrc_backup ]; then; mv /root/.bashrc{, _backup}; fi".
Great as usual, but here you may confuse some a bit because you don't remove any file but just rename the existing .bashrc (in order to render it useless).
Hint for SUSE-Users: Never do it like this on a network interface file like - SUSE reads from the beginning of a file name!

[davidnagy]

hey. hope you gonna answer soon. did the systax for yml files changed? i copy exactly what you do but when i try the playbook command at like 2:30 i get a systax error saying that something is wrong with the hosts: all