Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) dives deeper into Ansible, exploring the basic unit of automation, Ansible Playbooks.
This episode will follow material from chapters 3 and 4 in the bestselling Ansible book, Ansible for DevOps.
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Contents:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:25 - Questions from last episode
00:08:20 - Multi-host ad-hoc orchestration
00:19:02 - Using different modules ad-hoc
00:24:38 - Intro to Playbooks
00:28:18 - Comparing to shell scripts
00:32:35 - Moving commands into YAML playbooks
00:39:28 - Making playbooks more Ansible-ish
00:53:02 - Running the Apache playbook
00:56:24 - Limiting playbook runs to specific servers
01:00:14 - Outtro