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Linux Administration with Ansible: Writing Ansible Playbooks
Creating Ansible Playbooks allows you to create repeatable configurations that will be reliably correct. This course will teach you to write, understand, and execute Ansible Playbooks.
What you'll learn
Having repeatably correct configurations that can be replayed as they are needed, not only provides for long-term success in the production environment, it allows the production environment to be recreated in your test environment for development. In this course, Linux Administration with Ansible: Writing Ansible Playbooks, you’ll learn to read and write YAML, the file format of Ansible Playbooks. First, you’ll explore creating YAML statements online to understand the rules and syntax. Next, you’ll discover how creating Playbooks with logic we can control the execution of tasks. Finally, you’ll learn how to develop extensive Playbooks that cover all elements of Linux administration. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Ansible Playbooks needed to manage a variety of Linux administration projects.
Table of contents
- Introducing YAML and Playbooks | 3m 15s
- Parsing YAML | 6m 1s
- Choosing Text Editors and IDEs for YAML | 5m 57s
- The Problem with Tabs | 3m 57s
- Creating a .nanorc File | 7m 41s
- Creating a .vimrc File | 5m 23s
- Working with VS Code | 3m 6s
- Understanding Playbooks | 3m 48s
- Implementing Playbooks | 6m 41s
- Using Variables and Debugging Playbooks | 5m 14s
- Finding Modules in the File System | 3m 15s
About the author
Andrew is a committed evangelist of the Linux Operating System and the concept of community and freedom that it provides. He has worked as a technical trainer since 1995 and has taught throughout the world, including Australia, the US, Germany and Eastern Europe. Andrew started teaching Linux in 2004 when Novell acquired SUSE and has been a long time supporter of Novell and provides SYSOP support the the Certifed Novell Instructor community on Linux. Andrew founded theurbanpenguin and has been submitting video training material to his YouTube channel since 2009 and currently has over 8,500 subscribers and 1.6 Million views. Andrew has had two publications with Packt: Citrix Access Gateway VPX Essentials (2012) and Citrix XenApp (2013).
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