Baby steps with Ansible

Today marks my first day with Ansible and my blog!

Admittedly it was already installed on redhat for me so all I had to do was play with Playbooks, but some key notes of my first two hours:

  • Tab's are not your friend. Although their logical entities apparently it affects parsing values. Also reading some other people's blogs indentation is different depending on the text editor you use. 
  • If you're using Notepad ++ like I am, 
    • Replace Tab with Spaces. I replaced a Tab with 4 Spaces.
    • Display white spaces (View -> Show Symbol)
  • Ansible supports EOS, IOS, XR, NSX, JUNOS
  • https://serversforhackers.com/c/an-ansible-tutorial <- A good website to begin with.

I've got a long way to go, but I'm excited to start learning this.

 

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