Ansible - an absolute basic overview

[@AlecHalePletka]

Hands down the best introduction to ansible I've seen. The internet would be a more productive place if every introduction tutorial was this good.

[@SoeaOu]

best introduction to ansible on the internet

[@EdrisSaberi]

I agree with him, best tutorial for a beginner DevOps

[@bobvargas6239]

not for me

[@vittiswerkstatt8099]

Full ack. still excellent even though it's a few years old. Thank you very much, Quentin.

[@kalle779]

This was was great for me also, I wish more tutorials where like this! Keep it up!

[@CristianSzwarc]

"a rather strange tutorial"? is just perfect, thanks for sharing your time

[@TheCodeTinkerer]

Fantastic concise overview. Especially the "directory structure" part of the video, that clearly tells what the function of the main parts is for. Why on earth can't RedHat make an overview like this. They are overloading new users with details rather than a simple scope like this. Cheers! Just what I needed!

[@the_empty_void]

Never comment on videos but you deserve to know that you truly teach well. Thank you!

[@berkdikmen95]

Dude I was pulling out my hair trying to find a good introduction video and out of nowhere I found this video.. You are doing god's work!

[@PratikJain4]

This is an absolutely fantastic video on Ansible, you shared many not-so-obvious things that other tutorials generally miss out on.. Thanks a bunch !

[@madpuri]

Clearly explains all the concepts and keywords in Ansible very nicely in a 20min video. I actually created a workshop based on your 20min video for the team I work with. Cheers.

[@rossdorsey2165]

This tutorial may be "absolute basic", but it packs a fair amount of information into its concise 20 minutes. Well-organized, and presented in a very understandable way. You covered both how to do things, and how to make them more well-designed / modular / reusable. Quentin, you could totally do this sort of thing at conferences if you are interested. Thank you for sharing!

[@stjepan]

Thank you, the way you present information is amazing I've not seen many if any tutorials like this. I was saddened you didn't have more videos on this and other ops topics. I usually don't comment on tutorial videos but this is some high quality stuff. Hopefully you keep it up !

[@ravi261]

Quentin your explanation in this video presentation is more then Excellent and you have shown a flawless strategy to make Ansible very logical and easily catch-able understanding for any engineer in this world. i wish your this video definitely get tons of millions hits. Thanks !!!!

[@helhindi]

By far, the best overview of Ansible seen anywhere (google, safaribookonline, ansible docs). Many thanks Quentin

[@GD-do2wr]

I have watched a few tutorials about ansible which some of them are an hour long but this is just the perfect and simply tutorial, very easy to understand just in 20 minutes. JUST PERFECT!

[@Misanthrope84]

Wow that is a great tutorial. As already mentioned, the way you explain things is just remarkable. Thanks for doing this.

[@HanTrio]

Super useful, thank you very much :) Especially the file structure part, this is the first time I have a feeling of really understanding it, because how you explained it makes so much sense.

[@woodleman]

Thanks, exactly the level of detail I needed to get started, so many things just fell into place.

[@subhaschandrayedida1578]

I never thought I could get this much of information in just 20 minutes.Excellent

[@leonsky6433]

you made my day and restore my hopes of using ansible.. thank you sir

[@sumitology]

Your tutorial is awesome, +10 points to your soothing voice

[@PawanGupta-yk4wv]

This is one of the best introduction I have ever seen.

[@Reno730]

Amazing intro to Ansible. Very clear. I'm disappointed you don't have more on Ansible!

[@rpuggal]

pretty decent intro . great job on keeping it simple and to the point !

[@mrb1484]

thank you Quentin. One of the best intro to Ansible I've watched.

[@TheDreamzFactory]

I loved your content and presentation, Wish I get to see more from you.

[@jigneshdarji9104]

Thank you so much for the video. It's not only informative, it's only accessible to a newbie. :-)

[@shahidvids]

Best intro for Ansible ever. Please upload more Ansible video tutorials

[@QwertyHanSindar]

The best beginner tutorial that I found.

[@khemlalsinha7623]

Great explanation of Ansible basic. Thank you so much..

[@cristobal666]

Thank you! It's a really good introduction.

[@henryong7788]

This is the best tutorial on Ansible by far.

[@JamesTatman]

Well put, concise, to the point, excellent narration. Top notch. Thank you, also, for VNC btw.

[@santhoshchandrasekar5338]

Thanks for reducing our ansible revision time to 20 mins : )

[@anandrajm1]

Way better than typical basic ansible tutorial.. Strange but Perfect.. !!

[@faisalee]

Probably the best intro on Ansible out there 👍🏻

[@cesarquinteroz]

Fantastic and easy to understand. Cheers mate!

[@golubovicm]

Really great! I checked few others, but didn't understand much there even they were also for beginners. This one is much easier to digest. Keep on good work!

[@rezidentseagull5651]

Great tutorial! I knew about Ansible, but i had no idea what it did or how it really worked until now!

[@studio48nl]

You hear that Mr. Anderson?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of ANSIBLE...! Goodbye, Mr. Anderson... My name... is Neo.

[@d47im5e]

Thank you for your wonderful explanation. Now I've got general idea of ansible and i'll play around with it.

[@PSPKumanan]

Best explanation. Looking for more ansible videos from you. Please do some more teaching to us.

[@olge1355]

very helpful and on point. learned something, great job!

[@mewc1497]

14:17 onwards is really worth noting - super important. Directories for different dev environments and Roles too

[@TheFitFiddler]

Best ever tutorial on Ansible!! Thank you so much!

[@epmek96]

this is gold! thank ya

[@MrLittle0inker]

Very nice overview. Thank you so much

[@rickdv]

Brilliant! Thanks for your time Quentin.

[@EdrisSaberi]

Wonderfully structured and well presented, Thank you, Sir.

[@HenriqueOliveira-hl8kx]

Very good introduction! Good progressive explanation

[@nuttygold5952]

you're ridiculously good at this!!

[@sureshmb]

Very neatly explained and clear content, thanks a ton

[@mdivakarakirann]

Thanks alot Quentin, This is Very informative!!

[@portentouslad5051]

I second that.

[@Wynapse]

Fantastic explanation Bravo!

[@KevinGee-videos]

Thanks, very useful and succinct.

[@flytoravi]

You nailed it ..good tutorial in 20min

[@ibronch]

Remarkable presentation! Well structured, simply worded, articulated and complete. For someone who's never used puppet, chef or other solutions it helps quite a bit. Would you be able to make another video clarify what's the difference between vagrant and ansible as the vast majority of tutorials present it as a mandatory bundle?

[@quentinsf]

Thanks for the kind words, Patrick! I have almost no experience of Vagrant, but my understanding is that it's a way of managing virtual machines; of setting them up before you deploy to them. I haven't used it because I tend just to need a small number of machines on VirtualBox on my local PC; either that or we're deploying to Amazon and we use Ansible to provision those directly using the Amazon APIs (and Ansible's built-in support). So I think of Vagrant as one of the ways of starting up lots of VMs, and Ansible as the thing you use to deploy software to them once they are running. But I know there can be more overlap than that in reality, if you want to use it.

[@quentinsf]

Many thanks for all the recent thanks!

[@stargasm1000]

This is a brilliant video! Good vid, this.

[@piersonpaul]

Well done, sir!!

[@danishsiddiqui09]

great tutorial. short and sweet.

[@onurtosyaloglu2002]

Clean shot, thanks

[@Sefree6]

Great introduction, much appreciated.

[@laxmanmhasrup3525]

very nice...bro...i understood ...one of the best video on internet :)

[@dannyshaansurendran4127]

Very nice. Easy to understand indroduction

[@rajcomeng]

Thanks a lot. Really presented well and concise

[@jbnet2net345]

Very useful. I know understand the construct. Thank you!!

[@vikastandra4092]

Excellent tutorial

[@KalyugisLive]

Great Explanation, Superb !!

[@xwinglover]

Great video.

[@Python_Bacon]

excellent video

[@Xado147]

Thanks very much, Quentin :) Keep up the good work :)

[@JawadMohiuddin]

This was very helpful. Thank you!

[@richardlanglois5183]

Great presentation!

[@shayondebroy5106]

very useful video

[@donporter8432]

I am going to start watching it again after ceasing at the 7 minute mark. Forgive me, but I was missing too much due to the lack of speaking clarity. I can usually absorb the UK accent but something else was interfering, perhaps voice softening too much toward the end of a sentence or thought. I'll use a good headset this time and should be much more successful but I thought this cautious feedback could be beneficial for future videos. Thank you sir.

[@wlee618]

awesome instruction... Thank you!

[@sriramprabha422]

awesome intro

[@davidzof]

very good

[@ThePandaGuitar]

Amazing.

[@LuisMiguelZapata]

I liked a lot. Thank for Share!.

[@medwixit4906]

Thank you very much for this

[@vijaypatil5055]

Thanks for sharing .. great info

[@K6G8M9P0]

Great video, thanks !

[@senaps]

really awesome, thanks

[@pagr1776]

very well done.

[@jamallmahmoudi9481]

very useful

[@munikumarpoosala1264]

Nice video... I got an idea about Ansible..thanks

[@jerkchicken3968]

Excellent intro!

[@RamKumar-tk2cb]

Nice tutorial...thanks

[@AlexanderBegoon]

Thanks a lot

[@worldofvyaan4451]

great tutorial !!

[@mattewmackes]

fantastic!

[@uadmin]

Great!

[@nilanjansarkar100]

Fabulous!

[@TheRandomChannel__]

I love it, thanks

[@marekantozi399]

Thank you.

[@TNTBenelli600iRider]

Its Awesome, now I understand the directory structure for playbook, How you will guide us more about ansible with complexity

[@jhekyll3203]

thank you!

[@manikanthkommoju3176]

writing playbooks and roles become difficult. installimg manually a software is different from writing playbook. how can i overcome this

[@RajeshJangra1]

Really good

[@wecare30333333]

Hi quentin , what a great tutorial. I just want to ask can I use ansible to configure some software on multiple windows machines.

[@quentinsf]

Yes, you can, though I've never tried it. Have a look at docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows.html

[@wecare30333333]

Quentin Stafford-Fraser ok will check today