1s & 0s-Current Trends in DC Networking - Ansible Basics

[that1guy15]

Current Trends in DC Networking - Ansible Basics

In the last post we covered the install and a quick introduction to Ansible. Today I will go over the basics of Ansible and how to build and run playbooks.

Ansible is very powerful and flexible. Configuration and usage gets deep quick. The best way I have learned to dig in, is to start simple and build from there. So that is what we will do today, build a basic playbook and run some commands on
Source: Current Trends in DC Networking - Ansible Basics

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[dlots]

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[icecream-guy]

I really got to get started learning on this, I built up a virtual debian host the other week, and it's just been sitting, been meaning to learn some python.
was just googling how to run playbooks within a python scripts, looks pretty cool.

[that1guy15]

The nice thing about Ansible is it takes little python or programming skills to get started. YAML and playbooks are pretty simple and straight forward after you play with them a couple times.

YAML itself is geared to be as human readable as possible with minimum programming stuffs.

The programing with Ansible really kicks in when you start taking playbooks to the next level or wanting to fancy with stuff. You will start to see this with the next post or two on building configs with Ansible.

[NetworkGroover]

Ansible is dope.

Easy to work with (my dumbarse was able to do it), works on multiple platforms and vendors, agentless, free (If you don't go with Tower). Server guys have already been doing it for years.

Nuff said.

[Dieselboy]

The 1st link (Current Trends in DC Networking - Ansible Basics) is a blank page.

I think it's supposed to link to this one: http://blog.movingonesandzeros.net/2017/02/current-trends-in-dc-networking-ansible.html

Having a read through now