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Video of Ansible 101 - Episode 15 - Final LIVE Q&A in Ansible course by Jeff Geerling channel, video No. 15 free certified online
Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) answers questions from Ansible 101 viewers, gives away his copy of Ansible for DevOps to a lucky viewer, and concludes the Ansible 101 series!
Here's a blog post with links to mentioned resources and code samples used in the video: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/ansible-questions-and-answers-final-ansible-101-livestream
Ansible for DevOps: https://www.ansiblefordevops.com
Support Jeff on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy
Support Jeff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy
Contents:
00:00:00 - Start
00:00:08 - Intro
00:04:46 - Ansible 101 retrospective
00:17:00 - Ansible best practices
00:19:40 - Bootstrapping computers with Ansible
00:22:48 - Ansible for Kubernetes
00:24:56 - Where to store variables
00:26:44 - Running Ansible in CI/CD and Docker
00:29:14 - Monorepo vs many repos for automation
00:31:28 - Organizing tasks for apps vs implementations
00:33:51 - SSH forwarding or proxying in VMware
00:35:38 - Managing isolated servers in DMZ
00:36:28 - Writing tasks based on facts
00:40:10 - Installing AWX in Kubernetes
00:42:50 - When shouldn't Ansible be used
00:45:05 - WinRM through multiple Linux bastions
00:45:51 - Multi-host Molecule testing
00:48:24 - Managing SSH users and keys
00:49:43 - Running roles on specific hosts
00:52:36 - Organizing playbooks - blocks, tags, environments
00:55:23 - Visualizing Ansible playbooks
00:58:31 - Connecting through multiple SSH bastions
00:59:32 - Templating filenames with Jinja
01:00:44 - Better output for debugging
01:02:35 - Jeff's pivot from PHP to Python, Ansible, K8s
01:05:05 - Contributing to Ansible
01:06:31 - AWX or Tower on a Raspberry Pi 4
01:09:20 - Ansible with GitLab CI
01:11:43 - Using 'block' in playbooks
01:12:37 - Building Ansible modules
01:14:33 - Book giveaway
01:16:08 - What's next?
01:18:32 - Outtro