Learn to use Ansible to Update & Patch your Linux System | Devops
Ansible is a powerful configuration management tool that helps automate updating your systems and servers, among many other things.
If you’re familiar with other CM tools like Puppet or Chef, Ansible functions very much like Puppet Masterless or Chef Solo. It is designed to automate system administration tasks without having to write and maintain a bunch of bash scripts. CM tools are the foundation of a solid DevOps engineer.
I used an Ansible playbook in this video, which is an integral part of the Ansible ecosystem. The ansible-playbook command makes it super easy to run playbooks with either Ansible roles or tasks, but you don’t have to organize all of them in a playbook.
If you administer servers, whether they be Windows Servers or Linux Servers, it would behoove you to learn about configuration management. Powershell is often used in Windows environments however Ansible can run against Windows servers too.
Both Bash and Powershell have a strong tendency to get out of hand and result in code bases being unwieldy and difficult to maintain. CM tools like Ansible solve this problem entirely.
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33 Comments
Egee
May 17, 2022 06:41 amThe Github repo for the code from this video can be found here – https://github.com/egee-irl/ansible-system-update
Mr. JMUT Jayamanna
May 17, 2022 06:41 amGreat stuff. Thanks.
SonicJ2
May 17, 2022 06:41 am“Programming tutorials tend to run a bit long so let’s just dive in”
I just subbed, thank you man
Tech Sudo
May 17, 2022 06:41 amThis is the most concise, straight to the point, quick tutorial video about Ansible. Great job man 👏
The Mango Man
May 17, 2022 06:41 amCan you please help me. U have to install telegraf agent on almost 1000 servers.. so how can i do that with ansible playbooks or ansible
Mauricio Rangel
May 17, 2022 06:41 am"Once we disable that key checking… We got owned." thats how that phrase really ends.
kjakobsen
May 17, 2022 06:41 amWhy do all cool software have to use yaml? Makes my blood boil.
Joel Sterling
May 17, 2022 06:41 amThanks!
R L
May 17, 2022 06:41 amUseful video. Can you use ansible for deploying Linux os?
Ameya Agashe
May 17, 2022 06:41 amSimple and sweet! Thank you
Snehal Mehar
May 17, 2022 06:41 amI see your main.yml code and thanks for posting it on GIT. Can you tell me if I want to use the respective repository for a server like RHN for red hat, centos.org for centos, and suse.com for suse, how the code needs to be modified?
Erik Groh
May 17, 2022 06:41 amUfff I can't show this video because everytime when i start this video I get acid flashbacks 😐
James Prince
May 17, 2022 06:41 amDay background music doe #nostalgic #Synth
Hire DevOps
May 17, 2022 06:41 amclear and concise, great video!
Deadeye
May 17, 2022 06:41 amWhat linux is this?
Bornik Bhattacharyya
May 17, 2022 06:41 amWill it possible for you to make a tutorial on how to setup ansibe with vscode? Thanks for the video 👍
Roswitha
May 17, 2022 06:41 amBash documentation is character building.
Viktor Stoimenov
May 17, 2022 06:41 amWhat do you think about Solus?
Anindya S. Dhar
May 17, 2022 06:41 amanyone know the background music
Rushikesh Dhanawade
May 17, 2022 06:41 amwhich linux distro you as a daily
Jordan Boudreau
May 17, 2022 06:41 ami hate windows. i wanma switch to linux. is it even worth it. i game on my pc and i dont want to lose performance and i want to have my games. ik all about wine and shit but is it worth it?
Tropical
May 17, 2022 06:41 amHey Egee, can you make a video about we can use nvida graphic cards in vmware player
Dmitrii
May 17, 2022 06:41 amNot a single dislike wow
agassi joel
May 17, 2022 06:41 amYour page is very interesting, 🙂 and I love that wallpaper any links for these kinds of awesome wallpapers
Taro Yamada
May 17, 2022 06:41 amIt was very interesting! ! Your video was very easy to understand. I have one question, is it okay?
David Sanusi
May 17, 2022 06:41 amOn what Linux distro was this recording made?
Stuart Luscombe
May 17, 2022 06:41 amA great video! I use Ansible in my job and it really does save so much time with minimal effort.
Alexander White
May 17, 2022 06:41 amA useful and clear tutorial, an amazing voice and HOME – Resonance as the background music.
You got yourself a like and a subscription.
Elliot Linn
May 17, 2022 06:41 amMan your voice is amazing (and the video is amazing too)
jennashair
May 17, 2022 06:41 amso, question.
using 'become: true' alongside ssh key, does the ssh user need to be root?
oqiweopdfxb
May 17, 2022 06:41 amGreat channel dude
keep up the good vids
techtirade
May 17, 2022 06:41 amI've always got told to never install pip packages systemwide and use the provided package. Also shouldn't ansible just connect to a user with sudo rights, never used it just asked
HebaruSan
May 17, 2022 06:41 amClearly the optimal solution is to write (and teach) GOOD bash.