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.
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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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Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Deep Dive Tutorial
LVM, short for Logical Volume Manager, is awesome – and it doesn’t seem to get the attention it deserves. In this one-shot tutorial, I’ll show you why you should care about LVM, how to get started, some of the commands you can use to manage it, and more. You’ll even learn how to use it to take snapshots of your system!
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Building a Low Energy Virtualization Server for Your Office/Homelab with Proxmox
Following up on my low-energy FreeNAS build, here’s another server build – this time for virtualization. In this video, you’ll see the process of building a low-energy Proxmox server, and just like the last build – this one uses only around 55 watts!
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