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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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  • Getting Started with Ansible 02 – SSH overview & Setup

    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 second episode, we take a look at some foundational knowledge, specifically OpenSSH which is required for Ansible to work.

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 01 – Introduction

    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 first video in this series, we take a look at the overall theme and what to expect.

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  • Running Containers in the cloud with the Linode Kubernetes Engine

    Kubernetes is a very powerful platform to scale your applications, as the lower resource usage of containers can give you greater efficiency. The Linode Kubernetes Engine allows you to easily deploy containers in the cloud, eliminating the need for you to maintain your own hardware for your Kubernetes stack. In this video, we’ll explore the Linode Kubernetes Engine, and walk through an example of not only deploying a pod, but also setting up persistent storage as well.

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  • Setting up a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster with Ubuntu 20.04

    Kubernetes is a very powerful platform to scale your applications, and the Raspberry Pi is a low-cost computer with excellent power efficiency you can use to run tasks without breaking the bank. Canonical recently released Ubuntu 20.04, with full support for the Raspberry Pi. In this video, we take a look at how to create a Pi-powered Kubernetes cluster based on Ubuntu.

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  • Syncing your Files Across ALL your Computers via Syncthing

    Kubernetes is a very powerful platform to scale your applications, and the Raspberry Pi is a low-cost computer with excellent power efficiency you can use to run tasks without breaking the bank. Canonical recently released Ubuntu 20.04, with full support for the Raspberry Pi. In this video, we take a look at how to create a Pi-powered Kubernetes cluster based on Ubuntu.

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