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  • Getting Started with Ansible 13 – Managing Users

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 12 – Managing Services

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 11 – Managing Files

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 10 – Tags

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In video 10, we learn how to add tags to our plays that can make it easier to target specific things when we don’t want to run the entire playbook each time.

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  • Two Ways you can Enhance your Pinebook Pro workflow with a Raspberry Pi

    The Pinebook Pro is an awesome ARM laptop, and when paired with a Raspberry Pi, it’s even more awesome. In this video, I’ll show you how to offload your browser and terminal tasks to free up the RAM on the Pinebook, giving you additional resources.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 09 – Targeting Specific Nodes

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In video #9, we split our inventory file into groups, and look at how to run tasks on nodes based on their group.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 08 – Improving your Playbook

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In video #8, we look into a few ways we can clean up and consolidate the playbook we’ve been working with so far.

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  • Getting started with Ansible 07 – The ‘when’ Conditional

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In video #7, we take a look at differentiating our playbook.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 06 – Writing our first Playbook

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In video #6, we get started on writing playbooks, which is how we’ll use Ansible from here on out.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 05 – Running elevated Commands

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In the fifth video, we take a look at more ad-hoc commands – but this time, commands that perform changes.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 04 – Executing ad-hoc Commands

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In the fourth episode, we install Ansible and use it to run some ad-hoc commands.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 03 – Setting up the Git Repo

    Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In part 3, we take a look at another foundational concept – Git. Everyone who effectively implements automation uses Git, and in this video, we look into creating a repository and how to push changes.

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