An Ansible Journey

Welcome to my Ansible tutorial. This isn’t really meant for you, but rather is a tool for me to document my progress on learning Ansible. One of they keys of learning something quickly is to observe, internalize, practice, then write about what you are learning. I’ve set four days aside to do that before starting a new position. Now, if something along the way helps you out, great. Please feel free to read the posts; I'm happy to have you here, and I really hope you get something out of them.

I’ve based them off of the learnlinux.tv video series on YouTube, a 16-part series. I’ll write at least one post for each video with the exception of #3 which discusses Git. Git is a great tool, but unlike the SSH video, it's not strictly required for the tutorial. That said, in a revenue-generating environment, version control is an absolute must, and should be considered.

Here are the contents (which will be converted to links as I go):

1. Introduction

2. SSH Overview and Setup

3. Running Ad-Hoc Commands

4. Running Elevated Ad-Hoc Commands

5. Writing Our First Playbook

6. The When Conditional

7. Improving Your Playbook

8. Targeting Specific Nodes

9. Tags

10. Managing Files

11. Managing Services

12. Managing Users

13. Roles

14. Host Variablesand Handlers

15. Templates

With that, let’s dive right in by clicking the Introduction link above.

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