Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) introduces Ansible in the first episode of a new live-streaming series "Ansible 101 with Jeff Geerling."

Jeff walks through installing Ansible, running tasks on a remote AWS EC2 instance using Ansible ad-hoc tasks, integrating Ansible with Vagrant to build local Virtual Machines (VMs), and then teaches you how to write your first Ansible playbook!

This video follows material from chapters 1 and 2 in the bestselling Ansible book, Ansible for DevOps.

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Contents:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:47 - Preface and Info about Ansible for DevOps
00:07:51 - Ansible Background
00:17:43 - Installing Ansible
00:20:55 - Connecting to a Server with Ansible
00:26:50 - Using an ansible.cfg file
00:28:57 - Running ad-hoc commands
00:33:36 - Vagrant Intro
00:45:24 - First Ansible Playbook
00:51:47 - Idempotence
00:56:56 - Importance of naming tasks
01:01:18 - Chat questions answered
01:02:56 - Outtro