Ansible Crash Course by Michael Crilly

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What's included?

45 videos 1 file

Contents

Welcome

Hello!

4 mins

About Ansible

What is Ansible?

2 mins

What Problem does it Solve?

4 mins

An Example Problem & Solution

4 mins

About Ansible: Quiz

Installing Ansible

Installing Ansible

1 min

Installing Ansible (macOS)

1 min

Installing Ubuntu on Windows 10

4 mins

Installing Ansible (Windows 10 + WSL)

5 mins

Setting up our Virtual Machine

What we'll setup

3 mins

Generating an SSH Key (macOS)

2 mins

About Your SSH Key.pdf

73.9 KB

Generating an SSH Key (Windows 10)

2 mins

Our SSH Key + Our DigitalOcean Account

2 mins

Creating our VMs in DigitalOcean

3 mins

The System Inventory

The System Inventory

3 mins

Our Inventory (INI Format)

4 mins

Group Variables (optional)

2 mins

The System Inventory: Quiz

Ad-hoc Commands

Ad-Hoc Commands Theory

2 mins

Ad-Hoc Commands: More Theory

2 mins

Adding a new User Account

3 mins

Exploring the User Module's Documentation

2 mins

Installing Nginx

2 mins

Ad-hoc Commands: Quiz

Playbooks

Playbooks

2 mins

What and Why?

3 mins

An Example Playbook

7 mins

Rewriting the Playbook

5 mins

Playbooks: Quiz

Roles

Roles

3 mins

What are Roles

3 mins

A Simple User Role

8 mins

Roles: Quiz

Variables

Key = Value

5 mins

Lists

4 mins

Maps (Dictionaries, Hashes, ...)

4 mins

Lists of Maps/Maps of Lists

6 mins

Variables: Quiz

Conditionals

A Simple Condition

7 mins

Using the "and" Keyword

4 mins

Using the "or" Keyword

4 mins

Combing Both Keywords

5 mins

Conditionals: Quiz

Loops

Loop versus With_*

2 mins

Looping over a Simple List

4 mins

Looping over a List of Maps

4 mins

Looping over a Map's Keys/Values

6 mins

Loops and Conditionals

2 mins

Loops: Quiz

Tags

Tags

3 mins

Using Tags

7 mins

Tags: Quiz

Thankyou!

Thanks!

1 min

Your Next Steps

3 mins