• Docker Essentials 2 – What is Docker?

    Welcome to my Docker Essentials series, which teaches you the basics you’ll need to know in order to get started with Docker. In this video, I talk a bit more about what Docker is and how it differs from other solutions.

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  • Docker Essentials (Part 1) – Introduction

    Welcome to my Docker Essentials series, which teaches you the basics you’ll need to know in order to get started with Docker. In this video, I go over the outline for the series.

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  • Installing and Setting up Landscape

    Landscape is a tool made by Canonical that you can use to manage your Ubuntu Servers. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through getting it set up on your own server, as well as adding a client for it to manage. It’s an awesome utility, and easy to install.

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  • Using Ansible to configure your Desktops and Laptops

    You guys asked for it, now I finally deliver – in this video I show you how to use Ansible to configure your laptops and desktops! This works for servers too. This is a long video, but should get you on your way. You’ll see a few working examples, and by the end of the video, you will have your very own Ansible desktop/laptop config!

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  • Getting Started with Ansible 16 – Templates

    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 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 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 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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