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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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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 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.