What is Ansible? A short DevOps Introduction

This video is a short introduction in Deployment Automation and Configuration Management with Ansible.

I am working as an IT consultant in enterprise projects since many years. I have seen a lot of deployment automation solutions - I think Ansible is one of the best tools in the market ...

Unfortunately many companies use other tools that are too complicated (IMHO) ... so I have created a short demo video to show how simple and easy it is to get started with Ansible.

This presentation contains images that were used under a Creative Commons License.

[GretaWardFireFly]

Concise, easy, helpful. A demo makes the difference!

[napalm]

Thank you sir! This was a terrific video to get a bird's eye view of Ansible and what it does

[KA-flqt]

wow! i love this video .I cant get a better intro to Ansible than this. You made me understand this very well and will learn more about .i hope i can get a video like this on chef and puppet. i am completely new to configuration tools and devOps environment. Thanks so much Oliver

[ericking]

thanks for sharing this - it was very clear, well explained and informative to get an understanding of how ansible can be a great tool. I have subscribed. Thanks again.

[LightningMcQueen]

This is great stuff, please create a series!! Thanks Moser

[julianbici]

Thanks Oli, I found your tutorial very informative and helpful.

[catatonico]

Great video, the hands-on example was key.

[featuredimension]

This video about ansible introduction is very simple and easy to understand, Thanks for sharing

[ansellguardiananalytics]

Excellent demo. Thanks for sharing the same.

[evilsonic]

Pretty good explanation. Thanks for sharing!

[ajithsworld]

Very helpful tutorial.. Thanks a lot...

[FlorianSchauer]

That Video was awesome. Thank you very much. Now i will setup a few servers an try it out myself :)

[akrishnapillai]

Thanks for this more informative video!!!!

[AH-psuv]

Good video, thanks. I also like the end dialog : reuse, share and continuously improve

[minemonics]

Congrats Great tutorial! Ansible is a awesome tool!

[boggybudgie]

do i need to state a file extension for host file? is it just a txt file? or a specific type

[zainubamod]

Hi, what is the url to view the webpage in the browser after running the ansible playbook? Do you just use the public ip of the server?

[midinerd]

Would be nice to show forking of variables depending on host type. "Welcome to the {environment} server." displaying "prod" or "test". Awesome intro! Thanks for your documentation

[SoeaOu]

this question may be stupid, because i don't know nginx, but how did you start nginx? how did you get that web page?
does nginx serves index.html from that folder you specified in yaml file?

[li-on]

Nice short introduction but I wish you would've showed a real case because you also rent two servers (test and production).
I was wondering that the demo did not show a deployment on the test server first, check if everything worked out correctly and then deploy on the production server.

How is this usually done?
Will the same playbook be deployed just on the production server if everything worked out testing it or can ansible handle something in this process too?
(like only deploy if a web service started without problems...)