Ansible in 100 Seconds

Ansible is an Infrastructure-as-Code tool that can automate almost any task on a Linux server. Learn how to use it manage your cloud computing resources like a pro.
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[@Fireship]

Take this free $100 credit to play with Ansible on your own servers linode.com/fireship

[@tortoiseshell_cat]

Thanks man

[@keanutype0896]

please do: - Visual Basic in 100 seconds(if not yet made) - Object Oriented in 100 seconds - AWS in 100 seconds - BSD in 100 seconds - Pointers in 100 seconds(specially with C or C++ as example language) or: - Visual Basic for haters - Linux for haters (specially for beginner/first-time linux user context of the video) - Matlab for haters Thank you again for your works!!!

[@keanutype0896]

..or also do AWS for haters 🤣

[@Kowanza]

Illumos in 100 seconds

[@PANCHO7532]

Can yo do Squirrel in 100 seconds? (yes, it's a real programming language used by many games and embedded applications, sorta like Lua)

[@WolfPhoenix0]

This is the first non-AI video we've had in what feels like months! I hope we get Chef and Puppet videos too.

[@LillyAnarkitty]

Plot twist: it was AI though

[@SlexisSlacks]

It's sponsored though. Looks like Linode initiated the video's production by giving a huge part of the script. It feels weird...

[@acabreragnz]

Chef no please

[@aureli4nus]

Chef is dead 💀💀💀

[@meistens]

Would be nice to get a video on puppet

[@clxxiii]

Jeff pronouncing ssh as SHHHHH is everything

[@labiV1]

That took me out

[@evansagina4151]

For real though 😂😂😂

[@ZpeedTube]

Completly derailed my focus lmao 😂

[@militarykaliber-rp7ss]

It scared the shit out of me

[@shyamutty]

i think the voice in his videos are now AI generated

[@TileBitan]

Fireship is using AI to pump out videos and nobody can tell me otherwise

[@voidemon490]

he prob made his chat gpt plugin to make it sound like himself 😂😂

[@samirpsalim]

The way he said SSH supports that theory.

[@abrahimzaman360]

​@@samirpsalim yeah agreed

[@gleweistam6663]

i just came to the comments to make the exact comment kkkkk

[@dovakiin0]

Or fireship was always an AI to begin with

[@n00n1n]

I'm so stoned I watched the whole video while not understanding anything you said.

[@kanadaj3275]

Ansible isn't declarative though. You write procedural code (what to do in what order) in YAML/JSON that may call declarative tasks. But those tasks can also be imperative, so calling Ansible itself declarative is fundamentally misleading. Actual declarative would be writing an unordered specification of what a completed server looks like. An example would be Hashicorp Terraform.

[@zarzache1]

Also indepotent but not that much, depending on which module is being used 😊

[@kanadaj3275]

@@zarzache1 Actual declarative code tends to naturally drift towards idempotency since you describe the desired outcome, and so the machine has to check what has to be done to reach that outcome.

[@gro967]

For example PowerShell Desired State Configuration is idempotent even with custom code, because it required you to implement get, set, update and delete state scripts, which it then uses. Ansible doesn’t require this so is not inherently idempotent.

[@cheaterman49]

Terraform seems amazing, I hope it gets covered here at some point :-)

[@PenguinCinema]

When using modules that are not idempotent, the documentation warns you more or less that you are not using the tool properly. If the problem can't be solved with an idempotent module, you are encouraged to work around that even when using imperative steps (e.g. wrap checks around "command" module invocations to not run commands unless they need to be run).

[@BlurryBit]

Idempotency often times has to be achieved though, not a given.. specially when we are doing something custom like a command or something. Excellent video man!

[@willfell]

plenty of modules for common commands

[@HiIAmGabe]

Idempotency is mostly due to declarative code and commands are imperative code. Avoid using commands and use declarative code instead if you want idempotency

[@BlurryBit]

@@HiIAmGabe Agreed! I always try using the existing community modules for everything. My comment was for the super newbies. Don’t assume that everything always will be idempotent just because you are using ansible. Otherwise you may end up with lost data and so on. 🤨

[@yehiatech]

Thanks for the great content you provide to us!

[@tholeb]

OMG I love Ansible. My dotfiles config is deployed using ansible, and it's amazing. I can reinstall a full computer in under an hour, with all my apps, config, stuff ready at the end.

[@TheFragender]

You don't really need a control machine, since it pushes the changes and has no state, works just fine from any python environment (be it your local machine or a container, for instance)

[@user-kj5cb1hh1d]

great timing i just got out of a job interview where the interviewer asked "ok so ansible?" and i said "no but ive done some python" before he uppercutted me

[@katzy687]

Common combo is TF being used for provisioning, and Ansible being used to configure the provisioned resource

[@XEQUTE]

TF?

[@XEQUTE]

Tensorflow??

[@jefmasereel4956]

Terraform

[@newtonlomar9869]

TeamFortress.

[@kashman77]

the fuck

[@dontbemadsunshine]

Ansible also works with Windows over OpenSSH or via WinRM, you can authenticate via kerberos or certificate based authentication if your server is not on an Active Directory.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Can a Windows machine be the control node?

[@debadityanath4398]

Definitely didnt expect a 'in 100 seconds' nowadays, but they never get old

[@sudeep_jadhav]

Ansible made my entire career as infra engineer 😊

[@raihank3289]

starting my first grad role soon will be using ansible and terraform. How would you describe your overall experience leveraging these tools?

[@sudeep_jadhav]

@Kougami i was working as system (redhat), ansible was booster for my career, devops tools are add-on real skill is having basic understanding of platform

[@sudeep_jadhav]

@@raihank3289 what is you domain , infra /db/network/softwares ?

[@darthvader8144]

@José Mário da Silva Júnior swe is much more better than infra. When I was working in infra I felt pretty much dumb managing infrastructure while my colleges had fun with writing api

[@EricDongh2p]

​@@darthvader8144that's why it's better to work in both worlds. Doing SWE and Infra 🎉

[@adenrius]

I'll never get bored of SSH being called "ssssshhhhhh".

[@varunsharma5582]

Not just linux, we also use Ansible for automating windows server using winrm. A lot of functionality is missing in base Angular and a lot of modules are outdated and break everytime there's a new version of python. So, DevOps guys like me usually use bash and powershell scripts to create custom functionalities which are more trustworthy in the long run. So, many times ansible just becomes a way to run remote shells in the cloud virtual machines. We also use it to automate PAAS features in different cloud resources using their respective cli with bash. For example using azure, aws and gcp CLI.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Can a Windows machine be the control node?

[@varunsharma5582]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 You could run it in docker container or wsl.

[@BarelyInfected]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 no, and I don´t agree with the fact that everything breaks. You might be able to run it in WSL or a virtual machine but not recommended. Just install a debian machine.

[@apreviousseagle836]

I read that as BASH and Powerful scripts, lol

[@flazepe]

"Garbage server" for AWS LMAO

[@thanhtoan1742]

I love the video but I have to point out that "Idempotent" means that a state won't be changed if the same operation is applied multiple times, not a state won't change if it doesn't have to.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Instead of “idempotent”, it should be described as a “makefile for distributed configuration”.

[@muayyadalsadi]

my 2 cents, ansible is "devops as code", the yaml can live on git repo, the control node is anything that has ssh to the servers you are managing, it can a dedicated control node or your laptop or both. practice ansible using ad-hoc. Idempotent means it won't screwup if you run it twice or from arbitrary starting state. After you master ad-hoc, write playbooks then write reusable rules. ansible unlike puppet and chef can orchestrate, delegate ex. go to load balancer get list of all servers, got to each server report git branch all in parallel, go back to the load balancer and iterate on all web servers one by one, remove them from LB update them then add them back to LB.

[@lukasandresson3990]

Finally someone highlights the missing link for easy cluster management. Red Hat well done supporting the Linux community.

[@alex_oceann]

Can you cover the Nix shell/NixOS?

[@JeffGeerling]

Dangit, now my Ansible 101 course is null and void!

[@spookynutsack]

I know 100% you will comment here

[@zendark5356]

Is pikvm production ready to colocate

[@BarelyInfected]

No :)

[@ishi92]

Having the control node on the cloud is risky since it becomes a honeypot with your ssh keys. Better to use a local machine as the control node.

[@eldrah]

Haven't touched ansible in years and the introduction of collections has gone way over my head, wish there was a better "best practices" guide for the folder structure and what not like before the introduction of collections. I know Jeff Geerling has a blogpost about some confusion with it but maybe it has been solved nowadays. Still great software. Saltstack is great too but I prefer the agentless nature of ansible and puppet's bolt seems like a nice newer contender in that space but it's still too early to really adopt it imho.

[@AdamPippert]

Collections is just a way to scale Ansible roles and playbooks in an organised fashion so Red Hat doesn’t have to maintain everything themselves, and vendors can package their own stuff together and be responsible for releasing it themselves. It’s just a folder structure.

[@veemacks7255]

Aaaah, DevOps. Remember when they were a thing. These days Full Stack Software Engineers are expected to be their own DevOps too - using MiniKube and Kubernetes etc.

[@MaulikParmar210]

Expected and being one - there's a big gap :) Real one managing k8s knows when to replace which component in k8 itself to scale infra cluster, ofc there are very few real sys & ops positions available as a job in serious organisation compare to all the hype which only requires consuming the product at it's minimal level or even automate 90% of the things in cloud implementations that require almost no knowledge of k8s inner workings. P.S. edit typos

[@veemacks7255]

@@MaulikParmar210 Oh absolutely. Those of us forced into "doing our own devops" struggle along with a percent or two of the knowledge a devops person has. Most of the time I'm just entering a sequence of commands I was told to and not necessarily knowing what some of them mean.

[@chinochao]

Quick note. Ansible is not just to automate Linux. It supports Linux, Windows, and a variety of Network Devices. An even if something is not supported you can always run raw commands or use API calls if the device has an endpoint 😉

[@IchwanulFadhli]

1:06 Everybody: SSH (es•es•eich) Jeff: Ssshh 🤫

[@seanpreston4023]

LITERALLY just picked up my first Ansible JIRA ticket today: absolute lifesaver!

[@swissrock1492]

Ansible works not only on Linux. You can manage all kind of resources. Ansible modules are basically Python or power shell scripts.

[@henrymejia926]

Quickest i've ever been here lol I LOVE all your edits and videos ❤

[@c-LAW]

You should do a video reading the LINODE TOS. Their TOS kept me from using them.

[@j-0980]

Could you tell me what you found?

[@supersuede91]

I have literally no idea what you said but I like it

[@shashishekhar----]

Great timing, I was thinking of getting started into it.

[@softdevstuff1008]

@Kougami Or product manager does it with $20 chatgpt account 😁

[@Apurvanotfound]

Got 1st view. A question: what is future of Web developers in next 40 years according to you? (i will be in university in next 6 months. If its not very good then i might opt for chemistry)

[@KaguyaTrials]

Web Devs or well Full Stacks are getting really high pay lol

[@IvanRandomDude]

Opt for chemistry degree but learn web dev. That way you will have more options in case ChatGPT kills us all.

[@veemacks7255]

If you're going to study anything in the IT area, I'd recommend AI, Cyber Security and Robotics. There might be a 10 year career in those. In a decade though, there'll be general AI that uses Quantum Computers to auto-detect any cyber security threats and then designs, builds, and dispatches armed robots to destroy the attackers.

[@Apurvanotfound]

@@KaguyaTrials but sooner or later Chat GPT will make it a lot easier to create websites. And according to economics, the value of a job/service/ product decreases with either ease in barrier to entry or lack of skills required practically. Just like teachers.

[@Astra3yt]

Fun fact: if you have cowsay installed, ansible will automatically find it and use it to print messages. It's actually really funny and refreshing.

[@lost_pictures]

I installed it on our server and my boss asked me what that thing is that suddenly got displayed 🌚

[@cpprogramming2471]

I was coding in JS and my mom walked in, I immediately switched to p*rn because it was easier to explain

[@asdfjackal]

DeHaan was the advisor for my graduating classes senior capstone projects at university. Cool guy.

[@_theashishbhatt]

I am starting to notice your messages for Mom. I love how this was special for you guys.

[@rsnoussi]

Thank you Red Hat for such great Tech !!

[@dejangegic]

The way you spelled SSH makes me think you sir are using AI lately. Ain't complaining, love the frequent uploads

[@lazyalpaca7]

At this point we have a code report everyday, I like it.

[@dwaipayanmunshi7691]

One of the very underrated ones in this field is SaltStack

[@caseygrzecka515]

Best Linode commercial ever! Now do Digital Ocean! ;-)

[@lordicemaniac]

that ssh prononciation at 1:04 got me :D

[@ScibbieGames]

You should cover NixOS / Nix Package Manager, for a true declarative system configuration

[@facundolucero5386]

I was searching this comment, NixOS is awesome

[@ir0nmarshmallow85]

When you literally said "shhhh" instead of SSH I actually laughed. Love the vibe.

[@KgfLikia]

We are using ansible for deployment too.

[@lauriekimani]

Another wonderful evening with fireship.

[@Arillaxe]

0:28 "AWS - Garbage server" That's straight up violence

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 01:11

[@JustPyroYT]

Please make object-oriented programming in 100 seconds next :)

[@NotTheHeroStudios]

Alright.. That's it's, Jeff is official an AI and doesn't exist, there us NO WAY a human can release content this fire, this frequently, and this informative

[@a.afshari2602]

God I love this channel

[@anon-fz2bo]

"automate any job u do more than once" is a good philosophy

[@och_caroline]

0:18 Worth saying that Windows management is also achievable, heard from my friend. Sometimes I (erm, I mean - my friend ;)) needed to develop my own modules to achieve things that would run smoothly on Linux, but it's achievable :) Plus - writing modules with PowerShell is a bonus ;)

[@cheaterman49]

Very nice, I've had my eye on Ansible for a good while now! I wonder if you could cover Terraform at some point, I've been doing some AWS lately and while it's pretty nice I was looking for something that wouldn't lock me with a specific Cloud provider and Terraform seems to be the answer :-)

[@joshbarghest7058]

He has

[@LeeorVardi]

Terraform is not Cloud agnostic, instead it's a syntax that supports many "providers", usually written by the Cloud Platform holders themselves due to Terraform's popularity and prevalence, and each of these providers is extremely specific to the services, entities and structure of the cloud it is meant to automate. Essentially, this means that every Terraform file reads like an inventory list for how to build a specific configuration of entities, and each entity is incredibly provider-specific, both in name and nature and attributes, and you have to understand these entities to build a module. think of it like this. if your terraform is building a chair, then it would contain beams, nails, and the cushion - and they would utilize each others outputs.

[@cheaterman49]

@@LeeorVardi Thanks for your answer! So in essence you reckon unless someone creates a layer of entities that abstract away the provider-specific bits, the provider-agnostic promise is very much a dream? Or rather, it's more like you can use X or Y but not really switch from one to the other easily?

[@cheaterman49]

@@joshbarghest7058 I hadn't realized, thanks for telling me :-) EDIT: Somehow not quite as impressive as the Ansible one, haha!

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Except he’s talking about Anzible instead of Ansible.

[@Movi978]

the timing is impecable, as always

[@vinektobas3706]

Jeff geerling loves ansible

[@Kowanza]

0:18 it can do almost everything: Linux, Windows, BSD, illumos

[@meowzhin]

Man... the "Then shhhh into it." got me. Freaking hilarious.

[@VarunSharma-vc1yu]

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!

[@arseneandrouse5554]

Let's get him to 2M subs... We can do it!

[@oldwillsy]

Would love to see R in 100 seconds!

[@Noriyak1]

ansible is super simple i love it

[@Dev-Siri]

Jeff saying ssh "SSHHHHHH" confirms that he is not yet using AI to make his videos.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

He totally had SSH like that on purpose to make us question if he voiced it.

[@SIMULATAN]

I once demo'd ansible with docker containers, it took 15 minutes and after it everyone was confused about it. Ever since then, this incident has become a meme and I'm now known as the demo guy

[@vivsh.1999]

1:05 "...then shhh into it..."🤣

[@arianvc8239]

shhhhing into a server is my new favorite

[@diegocastaneda4325]

Did he say "shhhh into it" ? 🤣🤣🤣 I love this guy.

[@latentessence]

So I have been wairting for this video for so long. I really needed a nice summary for my docs

[@PcManist]

I just finished my assignment about Ansible 30 minutes ago and this video finds me

[@luckiertwin2]

The A in Ansible icon doesn’t actually stand for Anisble. It actual stands for: AI Advancing Aggressively

[@tendaizhou4139]

Thank you for this one. Please do Rancher (k8s ) in 100s

[@cindrmon]

thank you! been waiting this for a long time

[@andythedishwasher1117]

It's crazy how you keep putting up hundred second videos on tools I just picked up like three days before your drops. Are you using AI to analyze adoption rates?

[@SirDamatoIII]

Corporate uses Terraform, and has no change my mind option. So although cool, not an option. On a more positive note, still looking forward to that SvelteKit course!

[@TristinMays-fg1fh]

Been using Puppet for a while. I can now add ansible to my skills in my resume. 😅

[@pranavbhat92]

Hey I remembered Bucky Roberts listening to you! 😌

[@leovin00]

Friendship ended with Chef, now Ansible is my best friend

[@alkeryn1700]

you should do a video on Nix, Nixos and possibly guix.

[@crizwiz489]

Can you please do a video on CMS and how to make them blazing fast and or new techniques and technologies in that domain

[@Djellowman]

What are the advantages / disadvantages of using this over cloud services like AWS or Azure?

[@Djellowman]

Or Kubernetes?

[@funkynerd_com]

I used Ansible for almost 10 years. I swear it's been around longer than since 2012. Anyway, I recently replaced it with containers and Gitlab pipelines because this boy ain't no stinky sysadmin. DevOps for life yo.

[@getstuk87]

How do you configure changes to the system image? Manually and then bake that image?

[@funkynerd_com]

@@getstuk87 I'm not sure what you're asking. System image? It's a container. Anywayz, my projects have a Dockerfile that contains all the commands required to build the image for it. Then "docker build" is called from the pipeline. Image is built, shipped off to a repo and command sent to AWS-EB to download the new image and restart.

[@RohitMishrarvr]

Would be awesome to have CDK here. It is actual Infrastructure-as-Code instead of Infrastructure-as-Config like ansible.

[@martinc.7424]

It's unfortunate to have a terrform usecase for an ansible example But hey ! Good to see some DevOps content.

[@mypcistrash4596]

I was just watching your videos

[@ilkou]

then shhhhh into it 💯

[@thomasluk4319]

Cool I saw some applications use it for deployment as well. How does it different from docker

[@gersonadr2]

Ansible is one step up from bash honestly

[@ricdotdev]

You said "automate their Linux servers" but it actually can also configure Windows servers via WinRM. 🙂

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Setting it up on Windows is a pretty manual process, though.

[@FengLengshun]

I hope we'll get Nix/NixOS as well, because it's pretty cool ngl

[@Ben-gq9tx]

Is ansible really considered Declarative? With a tool like puppet i'd agree, but the procedural execution of ansible kinda feels imperative to me.

[@mathisd]

Hey Fireship, Please make a video about Streamlit. This tool is amazing :)

[@abrahimzaman360]

Your SSH Shoutout is Robotic

[@SergeiKonov-xn5bz]

What software are you using for your presentations?

[@geniusg9977]

Nearly 2 million subs

[@felinedis]

Did you watch Primeagens front-end masters course and get equally as amazed as me?

[@faremir]

Then ššš into it... man I have use that in every daily standup from now on.