Ansible 101 - Episode 1 - Introduction to Ansible

[@madj0312]

im not sure whether you gonna see this comment, but here it is, Its less than 3hours to a new year 2024 and im watching your ansible series and reading along with the book for a better 2024. thanks for the content

[@komalthecoolk]

He deserves all the sponsors that he can get, just considering the amazing content he's putting out in this KZbin series for free!!

[@ExtremeSquared]

39:50 "Centos versions are supported practically forever." Whoops.

[@DaPanda19]

Lmao

[@mastershake156]

why whoops? what happened?

[@ExtremeSquared]

​@@mastershake156 In a nutshell, RedHat retroactively revoked long term support for Centos, Centos was superseded by 'Centos Stream', and traditional Centos was functionally replaced by other projects -- Rocky, I think. I'm not a Centos expert, though. Team Debian Stable.

[@Khift]

Of all the anachronistic things mentioned in this video, the one that hit the hardest was "CentOS is supported basically forever". Rest in peace, king.

[@JeffGeerling]

To think I could always recommend it as a nice, solid, base, reliable OS target for someone getting started, with the understanding they could work on a tutorial that was written 5-10 years ago and still get a successful result... :(

[@dominick253]

Just made two playbooks. One to update all of my servers and the second for CI for my website to automatically update on my server! It's amazing it updates in a second!!! Automatically with a webhook! Like magic! Used to be at least a 5 minute operation to update the website and now it's automagically done ✅

[@JeffGeerling]

Automate all the things!

[@wquayle9229]

A year later, and the virus is still a thing. I've been a systems guy for 35 years. It's about time I added Ansible to my toolbox. Thanks very much for this fine book and video series.

[@aki_tomato_]

i just got a new job. From doing desktop support to automating linux servers with ansible... This series really helped me a lot. And I bought your book too! Thank you for saving me!!

[@Lehi0001]

Good on you sir. This is a life saver, as I just took an offer that I'm expected to learn Ansible in depth, and I'll be buying the book too just to support. Thank you!

[@JeffGeerling]

Good luck!

[@pedrohakia1]

Hey Jeff, I'm Catholic too, and I loved it " I'm going to pray for you, either you like it or not"hahahahahaha made my day!

[@bretthansen633]

Thank you so much for this! So helpful!!! You mentioned the coronavirus and it reminded me how much things have changed! In late February 2020 both my parents got it so bad that I woke up in a cold sweat realizing I may have to plan 2 funerals... Thank God they both got through it!! My mom I still dealing with long haul covid but things have gotten much better. Anyway I love your videos they are soooo helpful! I've been working on/staying in a crazy upgraded 1974 GMC Motorhome for 3 or so years now. Thanks to you and a few others I've got my old motorhome almost fully automated!!! Thanks!!! Now I'm leaning this to do a 10 odroid n2+ cluster to replace my T420 dell server lol

[@MeTube3]

Still three years later I can't thank Jeff enough.

[@Forkentiney]

Heyyy Jeff the "Ansible" exists in Ender's Game (1985), yes, but the idea really comes from Le Guin's novel called "Rocannon's World" from 1966, and expanded upon in 1977 with "The Dispossessed". Le Guin revolutionized science fiction and loads of stuff from her is often misattributed to other artists (see James Cameron's "Avatar" and Le Guin's "The World For World is Forest")

[@nemakalsudhirchakravarthi4311]

The most awaited Video from Jeff Geerling... Thanks a lot.

[@JeffGeerling]

@Oliver Davies asked during the stream "Any reason for using yum module over 'package' module?" - In this case, not really; package is convenient for multi-platform playbooks. Sometimes it is good to specify yum/dnf/apt/pacman/etc. instead of the generic 'package' module if you need to specify distro-specific options, or if playbook is intended to only work on one platform/distro.

[@laurensdehaan2202]

Super video! I applauded for $5.00 👏👏

[@mihaiblebea1940]

First 60+ mins video I watch on youtube. Really good content. Great job!

[@AngelaAndrews]

What a great episode. Thanks for going over your book in this way. I've never sat still for an hour KZbin video before. Thanks for keeping it engaging and thanks for always praying.

[@JeffGeerling]

Thanks so much, glad you liked it!

[@KaliszAd]

@JeffGeerling For those on Windows, you can use Chocolatey.org package manager (the installation is copy&paste of one PowerShell line) with 'choco install virtualbox vagrant -y' and have the environment available in no time. In a directory of your choosing, you can then run 'vagrant init geerlingguy/ubuntu1804', 'vagrant up' and 'vagrant ssh' and have an environment for just playing with Ansible. You can always use Ansible on the local machine, just use 'localhost' as the host. On Windows, it is a bit harder to then spin up other machines, that you can talk to. You might want to have a look at private networking in your Vagrantfiles or just use the Windows Subsystem for Linux for Ansible and vagrant to spin up your test machines. You might also use so called nested virtualization, but that can make stuff more complex stil. If you are interested in that, here is a great video by David Bombal: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH63Y6Sfoq5_b7M

[@T313COmun1s7]

Been interested in Ansible for a while. I just did a basic introduction course and realized how much the paradigm aligns so well with what I would do if I built it. So I decided to watch this. I enjoy your other videos. You showed a Pi 4, and I could help but think, wow, back when you could just buy them.

[@joseantoniozarzosa7805]

¡Gracias!

[@berkanyldrm2107]

Awesome staff. Thanks from Turkey 🇹🇷

[@christiaansteenkamp5617]

Just bought your book. Thanks for being such a awesome guy I stumbled onto one of your old raspberry pi videos and now Im down the rabbit hole.

[@lordofenron]

Hi Jeff.. I found out about Ansible about two years ago but didn't have the energy to learn anything, so now I'm back after two years and ready to learn. I started with videos on pluralsight, and they were pretty bad, but yours is pretty amazing :D I already learned a lot more than the last two hrs spent om pluralsight. Anyway, what I really wanted to say is that you seem like the best guy ever :) All your comments about helping others, giving the book away for free and "I'm gonna pray for you whether you like it or not". I mean, it's pretty heartwarming :) Thanks.

[@jerikho04]

Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to record your book and publish it for free. All the best, sir

[@almazkharrasov]

I was shocked when I saw your name in the Recommended Reading section of the Unix and Linux system administration handbook. You're awesome!

[@minhajabidin]

What a gem of a person!. Loved the tutorial aswell.

[@brentonasmith]

Well done Jeff, like the format of watching “over your shoulder” so to speak, quick way to learn by watching others.

[@danielstoddart]

I agree, the 'over the shoulder' style of producing tech videos, especially developer videos, is the way to go. I find myself learning more, and learning it more quickly, this way.

[@conallogribin]

looking forward to watching this series. Thanks for the effort , Jeff.

[@getHornbied]

"Cent OS should be supported for years" /s. Excellent video!

[@Xatinni]

Thanks Jeff.. great intro into Ansible, looking forward to watching the rest of the series..

[@JeffGeerling]

Good luck, and thanks for watching!

[@wekiwa7055]

Much enjoy reviewing your "live stream" vids Jeff.

[@kikomon8652]

Wow! Thank you for doing this! It is straight forward. Clear. Precise. Outstanding work. Kudos!

[@andreas-fefe]

Thanks Jeff. I received my fresh copy of the book

[@JosephHiatt-gh4tf]

Ursula K. Le Guin coined the word "ansible" in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World. The word was a contraction of "answerable", as the device would allow its users to receive answers to their messages in a reasonable amount of time, even over interstellar distances.

[@jeremys6003]

repping this series at AnsibleFest 2021 for you Jeff! People have already seen it or will be watching soon!

[@janpoulsen498]

What a nice and coherent presentation. It's a joy watching.

[@JeffGeerling]

It's a joy having you watch!

[@charlesstepp129]

Speaking of germs, a few books to set your knowledge on a good basis. "I Contain Multitudes" - Ed Yong "A Planet of Viruses" - Carl Zimmer "The Immune System: A Very Short Introduction" - Paul Klenerman

[@Ollital]

Thanks your videos. I know have playbooks for setting up a new pi, dist-upgrade all my pis and upgrade my servers. This makes these tasks a lot easier.

[@AliHussein-go9qx]

Thank you for the perfect explanation for every think.

[@emmanuelchukwu1691]

Just bought the book.....It's my own way of supporting you mate....

[@minecraftchest1]

Mentioned Enders Game and I was hooked.

[@atulsharma-zy6nq]

Thanks Jeff suddenly things started looking easy

[@lazyprogrammer.7435]

Thanks a lot for the amazing content you put on KZbin for free.

[@cloudkemitafropt5879]

Hey Jeff I love what you do. You are great for Professionals.

[@ESquared42]

Omg Ender's Game is an absolute classic!! That's actually the first "big" book i finished when I was in like 6th grade. Ender's Shadow is a wonderful book too, its the whole story from Bean'a perspective.

[@trevorbrant9535]

I'm just getting started with the Software Defined Networking side of things - currently studying for the CCNA. This is super helpful. Thanks so much, Jeff!!

[@hexploit2736]

What a hero, thank you so much Jeff for doing this!

[@babarbasharat196]

Thanks Jeff. These Videos supplement your book quite well. You are doing such an amazing job !

[@johnwhately9481]

Thanks!

[@johnwhately9481]

Me and my Father love your channel.

[@JeffGeerling]

Thanks!

[@chkltcow]

Checking in on March 6, 2022 to say that "The craziest timeline of your life" has managed to get crazier. Fun further note for anyone watching a decade into the future.

[@cgarafulic]

Thank you Jeff, amazing video in the technical area, and thank you for your positive mind set so together as humans as a whole will overcome and defeat the current pandemic as you mentioned.

[@felix30471]

Thanks a ton for producing these videos and making them available for free! This has helped me understand more about Ansible and using it than I could in like three hours of reading docs (ok, maybe I'm just bad at that...), and on top of that you even did a bit of Vagrant!

[@dominikp6073]

you are amazing! Thank you so much for the book, thats exactly what i needed!

[@pradeepkumarpanda4611]

Great fan from india jeff. I started following you by downloading your ansible roles from Galaxy..

[@grahammccann8554]

Thank you for the video Jeff.

[@Gilgwathir]

Thank you for the great tutorial :-) I only watched this first one, and I can already tell this will be a good series.

[@jonghunpark1403]

This is awesome!! Thank you so much for putting this series out.

[@jimlosinsky5548]

Fantastic Ansible Tutorial 🙏😀❤️🎄🎄🎄

[@homiwong]

A instant buy for your book! Great job!!!

[@Billklinefelter]

I’ve used several of your Ansible galaxy roles so when I saw this I knew it would be good. Thank you for doing this!!

[@enriqueperez3208]

bought your book last year and was pretty worthed :). Good to see who was behind it

[@ajayshahi2003]

Thanks for the series. Awesome way to contribute to community.

[@noferblatz]

Correction on your definition of "ansible". Ursula K. LeGuin created this word/concept in a sci fi book she wrote decades ago (I forget which one). It was such a great concept that it's been copied by others, including in "Ender's Game".

[@ThomasRStevenson]

Just bought your book on Amazon. Can't wait to get it. Thanks!

[@AlyWhits]

Missed the live stream, but just finished watching the recording. Thank you for this series. Looking forward to Ep 2! :)

[@geoptus]

Thanks for putting together such a great tutorial, very enjoyable to follow and understandable with your clear, structured explanations. It's the first time I've used ansible and vagrant, and it all worked 😃 Look forward to getting on with the rest of the series - awesome stuff dude!!

[@rajun6713]

This is so good, you took time to make videos of the chapters you wrote in your book. Your so awesome. Started with ep1, it going good till now. Love the content.

[@ssmytheYT]

Great intro to Ansible and I wish you the best of success with the book! :-D I am grateful for all your contributions to the open source world and look forward to your future works!

[@daviddemoss7731]

Awesome videos. Been trying to come up to speed on ansible using your resources. So far ansible seems to have a high learning curve, but your resources are incredible! thanks for making this all available!

[@jptechnical]

I don't usually comment on these things, but I find it funny that future watchers might not know what COVID was, but you say that CentOS will last forever. It just hit me as ironic since CentOS (as we know it) was announced it is going away but I'm quarantining because of COVID!

[@kshitizsingh8149]

Great introduction stream. Will definitely watch the full series. subscribed .

[@herculanoooo]

Amazing stuff. Learning a lot with you! Cheers from Brazil.

[@sahdevchauhan]

Thank you for this series. It's great to learn from you.

[@azizayyildiz3771]

Thank you for this series

[@pythonautomation8016]

Thank you for making your book's content into wonderful videos! I am going to enjoy the whole series!

[@hotrodhunk7389]

Love your videos! I also love technology something that's one or two clicks for one person can be an hour of troubleshooting for another 😅😂

[@anthonyrussano]

Thank you Jeff!

[@MohammadMahro]

Thanks for the initiative, very helpful

[@MaxCreatesCode]

Great series!

[@Rostol]

The book is "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card.

[@sysadminsean]

This got suggested on the r/ansible subreddit. Looking forward to watching it

[@JeffGeerling]

Good luck on your automation journey!

[@romanlipin3518]

you are amazing! thank you for your knowledge and contribution!

[@souplike.homogenate]

34:39 Hi from more than two years in the future: Things Did Not Get Better

[@chickenonaraft4941]

You are a Saint, and I am buying your book

[@deepakdeepsdeepak]

excellent tutorial , thank you Jeff !

[@LucGeurts61]

Great content. Thx for putting this up!

[@DiaaKasem0]

Jeff You are amazing

[@the-common-man5795]

Great job!! Much appreciated.

[@rubodsingh7555]

very good lesson...even better than cloud guru ..i guess !! Can't wait for next ones !!

[@najoejoe3907]

Thanks for the book!

[@DarrensTechTutorials]

Thanks Jeff.

[@BotSlayman]

of all the things that changed in those 2 short years who would have thought it'd be the death of CentOS. That's sort of wild.

[@cowardly_wizard]

New student just over two years late. Thanks so much! Unfortunately a decade was optimistic

[@VoislavVasiljevski]

Great content Jeff!

[@JeffGeerling]

0:29 - less than a minute in, already touching the face. Stay safe folks, wash your hands!

[@divyarachamallu]

hi Jeff, what is the link Pub is that app available in play store ? , to get that free book which you have mentioned

[@JeffGeerling]

@@divyarachamallu - You can find all my books on LeanPub here: leanpub.com/u/geerlingguy

[@rodrigito78]

All good as long as they are clean ;)

[@vikramkrishnan6414]

Thanks for this. Really appreciate it

[@Sklb]

That was one of the funiest psyops over the last 2 years. "Everybody dont touch your face, else you get covid". Good that it ended up not being true. CDC released new info about covid from surfaces in april 2021. Thankfully only about 1 in 10000 infections are from touching surfaces.

[@soewin2011]

thank for your sharing ansible 1010

[@francoisyengue6195]

Just got the channel you rock Jeff thank you, subbed!!!

[@geraldcurren]

Wow! Very impressive!

[@anil5065]

would be great if you would have explained how to setup your centos user in both machines and how to setup SSH key based authentication for Ansible to work.

[@hfh_hfh]

Love you Jeff