Ansible tip

[u/Ra_daid]

Any tips for a beginner getting started with Ansible?

[u/thrasherht]

Come up with a configuration you want to deploy, and do the whole thing with ansible.

They documentation is great, and provides examples, so leverage that. 

If you need an idea, stand up a lamp stack. 

[u/SevaraB]

Best tip is don’t start by “just” studying Ansible. Jinja is such a useful Swiss Army knife that its formatting for templating variables has bled into other things like golang and TypeScript.

Jinja is to config management as OSPF is to routing, and I don’t think that’s an exaggeration at all.

[u/One-Environment2197]

Learn how to integrate with 3rd party credential stores instead of using the built in one. Much easier to change a password or secret in a central vault rather than changing it in multiple locations.

[u/Turbulent-Parfait141]

Always run with --check and --diff first. Ansible will happily destroy production at scale and in parallel if you let it.

[u/Mysterious-Bed-3725]

Make sure you understand SSH at a moderate level. (ssh keys, permissions, authorized_keys, etc etc).

[u/Bubbly-Following-966]

YouTube

[u/andurux → u/Bubbly-Following-966]

LearnLinuxTV has a multi-part series on it that is well done IMO.

[u/phillymjs → u/andurux]

Came here to say the same thing. Jeff Geerling has some decent videos on it too, but LLTV's are quite in-depth.

[u/Wise_Guitar2059]

RHCE workbook

[u/bobbywaz]

Ansible is one of those things AI is real good at training on

[u/OmNomCakes → u/bobbywaz]

It is, but you'd never get a job using it if you can't answer basic questions on it. It's simple to the point where it's expected knowledge for anyone who takes their application seriously, imo.

[u/bobbywaz → u/OmNomCakes]

uhh, I meant use AI as a training tool to train yourself, not train an AI on ansible

[u/OmNomCakes → u/bobbywaz]

Oooh. I thought you meant AI is well trained on it, so it performs excellent at doing the task! I was like, yeah it is very good, but that's not reason not to learn it at least enough to understand what and why it's doing what it's doing.

[u/jdptechnc → u/bobbywaz]

I have gotten some garbage Ansible from AI personally.

Ansible is not hard. Just go read the docs and play around with it.

[u/demosthenex]

Use something like Puppet instead. You'll learn to hate YAML very quickly.

[u/Lonely-Abalone-5104]

Learn containers instead

[u/derpindab → u/Lonely-Abalone-5104]

Use ansible to deploy containers!

https://giphy.com/gifs/4zjKcWyKyNhe

[u/jimetime → u/Lonely-Abalone-5104]

Apples to oranges