Ansible Tutorial

Install Ansible

  sudo apt install ansible

Ansible Version

2.9

Example Playbooks

Hello World

  ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts.yml helloworld.yml

Updates

  ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts.yml updates.yml

Webserver (Apache2)

  ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts.yml webserver.yml

Ad-Hoc Example

  ansible -i inventory/hosts.yml all -m ping

Documentation

Ansible Builtin Modules

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/index.html

Ansible Inventory Guide

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/user_guide/intro_inventory.html

Ansible Roles

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/user_guide/playbooks_reuse_roles.html

Ansible Variables

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html

Ansible Special Variables

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/reference_appendices/special_variables.html

Ansible Templating (Jinja2)

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-and-use-templates-in-ansible-playbooks

Ansible Explained (TechWorld with Nana)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1id6ERvfozo