Ansible Introduction
If you are not familiar with Ansible, IBM has made a great video introducing it.
Official Resources#
UMN Example Repos#
- Basic Apache, Certbot, Sectigo Playbook Example
- Ansible Project Repository Example
- Includes use of group_vars, host_vars, inventories, roles, handlers, requirements files, and more.
Video Explainers of Common Tasks#
- Red Hat -- Benefits of Ansible [Automation Platform]
- Automation Step by Step -- From Beginner to Pro: Ansible Playbooks Explained
- Focuses on playbooks, walks through Apache config
- Michael Crilly -- Things I wish I knew about Ansible from day 1
- Part of a playlist of short videos on various Ansible topics
- Luca Berton -- Open firewall ports in RedHat like systems - Ansible module firewalld
- Common task, pertinent to rhel9 hosted setup
- Luca Berton -- Deploy a web server apache httpd virtualhost on RedHat-like systems - Ansible modules
- Common task, good visual of how to run ansible
- VRTechnologies for Automation -- Java, Tomcat Installation and Configuration using Ansible
- Older, but useful for seeing someone decompose the task of installing Tomcat with a playbook and troubleshooting it
Courses#
- Udemy: Ansible for the Absolute Beginner - Hands-On - DevOps
- LinkedIn Learning: Ansible Essential Training
- Hennepin County Library card holders have paid access to this learning tool