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Ansible Full Course | Ansible Training | Learn Ansible for Beginners | Edureka

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🔥Edureka DevOps Training(Use Code "𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐁𝐄𝟐𝟎"): https://www.edureka.co/devops-certification-training This Edureka Ansible Full Course video will help you understand and learn the fundamentals concepts of Ansible and Configuration Management in the DevOps lifecycle. This DevOps training video is ideal for both beginners as well as professionals who want to master the fundamentals of the top DevOps tools. This video will take you a step further in your Devops Journey. Topics covered in this video are: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:27 Introduction to Ansible 00:08:04 Ansible Playbook Tutorial 00:31:45 Ansible Explained 00:51:50 Writing Ansible Playbook 1:32:23 Ansible Tower Tutorial 1:58:38 Ansible Interview Questions 2:41:05 Ansible vs Terraform 🟣DevOps Training playlist here: http://goo.gl/O2vo13​​ 🟣DevOps Training Blog Series: https://goo.gl/05m82t 🔴Subscribe to our channel to get updates on DevOps Tools Full Course. Hit the subscribe button above: https://goo.gl/6ohpTV Edureka Community: https://www.edureka.co/community/​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/edurekain​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edureka​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edureka_learning/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edurekaIN/​ SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/EdurekaIN​ Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/edureka/ #Edureka​ #EdurekaDevOpsTools #DevOpsToolsFullCourse​ #DevOpsTools #DevOpsToolsTutorialForBeginners​ #futureofDevOpsTools ​ #DevOpsToolsin2021​ #DevOpsToolsExplained​ #DevOpsToolsEdureka​ #DevOpsTraining #EdurekaTraining​ ------------Edureka Online Training and Certification----------- 🔵DevOps Online Training: https://bit.ly/2BPwXf0 🟣Python Online Training: https://bit.ly/2CQYGN7 🔵AWS Online Training: https://bit.ly/2ZnbW3s 🟣RPA Online Training: https://bit.ly/2Zd0ac0 🔵Data Science Online Training: https://bit.ly/2NCT239 🟣Big Data Online Training: https://bit.ly/3g8zksu 🔵Java Online Training: https://bit.ly/31rxJcY 🟣Selenium Online Training: https://bit.ly/3dIrh43 🔵PMP Online Training: https://bit.ly/3dJxMTW 🟣Tableau Online Training: https://bit.ly/3g784KJ -----------Edureka Masters Programs-------------- 🔵DevOps Engineer Masters Program: https://bit.ly/2B9tZCp 🟣Cloud Architect Masters Program: https://bit.ly/3i9z0eJ 🔵Data Scientist Masters Program: https://bit.ly/2YHaolS 🟣Big Data Architect Masters Program: https://bit.ly/31qrOVv 🔵Machine Learning Engineer Masters Program: https://bit.ly/388NXJi 🟣Business Intelligence Masters Program: https://bit.ly/2BPLtn2 🔵Python Developer Masters Program: https://bit.ly/2Vn7tgb 🟣RPA Developer Masters Program: https://bit.ly/3eHwPNf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - About the Course Edureka’s DevOps online training is designed to help you master key tools of the DevOps lifecycle like Docker, Puppet, Jenkins, Nagios, GIT, Ansible, SaltStack, and Chef used by a DevOps Engineer for automating multiple steps in SDLC. For Online Training and Certification, Please write back to us at sales@edureka.in or call us at IND: 9606058406 / US: 18338555775 (toll-free) for more information

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This quantifiable data shows the significant increase in Ansible usage, positioning it ahead of other DevOps tools.', 'The session agenda includes an introduction to Ansible, playbook tutorial, roles, Ansible Tower, interview questions, and a comparison with Terraform. 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case study', 'summary': "Discusses the working of ansible, its features, and a case study of nasa's use of ansible tower to automate and manage its cloud-based environment, resulting in significant time reductions in website updating, security patching, and provisioning of os accounts.", 'duration': 597.951, 'highlights': ['Ansible Tower resulted in significant time reductions for NASA: Updating nasa.gov took 1 hour before Ansible, but only 5 minutes after; security patching updates reduced from multi-day to 45 minutes; OS account provisioning decreased from unknown to 10 minutes. Updating nasa.gov from 1 hour to 5 minutes, security patching from multi-day to 45 minutes, OS account provisioning from unknown to 10 minutes.', 'Ansible Tower provided near real-time RAM and disk monitoring, baselining of standard Amazon machine images, reducing a one-hour manual process to a background invisible process. Ansible Tower enabled near real-time RAM and disk monitoring, baselining of Amazon machine images, reducing a one-hour manual process to a background invisible process.', "Ansible Tower organized NASA's infrastructure by grouping hosts and users, assigning different credentials and permissions, and managing inventories, providing ease of monitoring and quick deployments. Ansible Tower organized NASA's infrastructure by grouping hosts and users, managing inventories, providing ease of monitoring and quick deployments.", 'Ansible Tower dashboard provided an easy-to-use interface for managing quick deployments, monitoring configurations, and tracking job statuses. Ansible Tower dashboard provided an easy-to-use interface for managing quick deployments, monitoring configurations, and tracking job statuses.', 'Features of Ansible include agentless operation, built on Python, uses SSH for secure connections, and push-based architecture for sending configurations, providing full control and fast setup with minimal requirements. Features of Ansible: agentless operation, built on Python, uses SSH for secure connections, push-based architecture for sending configurations.']}], 'duration': 731.637, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr4148507.jpg', 'highlights': ['Ansible Tower resulted in significant time reductions for NASA: Updating nasa.gov took 1 hour before Ansible, but only 5 minutes after; security patching updates reduced from multi-day to 45 minutes; OS account provisioning decreased from unknown to 10 minutes.', 'Ansible uses playbook to describe automation jobs using YAML, a human-readable data serialization language, making it easy to understand, read, and write.', 'Features of Ansible: agentless operation, built on Python, uses SSH for secure connections, push-based architecture for sending configurations.', 'Ansible Tower provided near real-time RAM and disk monitoring, baselining of standard Amazon machine images, reducing a 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2.924}, {'end': 907.35, 'text': 'So now let us take a look at the Ansible architecture so that we can understand more about Ansible and decide how we can use Ansible.', 'start': 899.881, 'duration': 7.469}, {'end': 910.334, 'text': 'So this is the overall Ansible architecture.', 'start': 907.911, 'duration': 2.423}, {'end': 915.98, 'text': "I've got the Ansible automation engine and I've got the inventory and a playbook inside the automation engine.", 'start': 910.974, 'duration': 5.006}, {'end': 920.023, 'text': "I've got the configuration management database here and host.", 'start': 916.901, 'duration': 3.122}], 'summary': "Ansible drastically changed nasa's management system.", 'duration': 39.499, 'max_score': 880.524, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr4880524.jpg'}, {'end': 966.943, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 940.558, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 944.661, 'text': 'It holds all the data relating to the collection of your all IT assets.', 'start': 940.558, 'duration': 4.103}, {'end': 952.507, 'text': 'And these are commonly known as configuration items and it also holds the data which describe the relationships between such assets.', 'start': 945.302, 'duration': 7.205}, {'end': 956.879, 'text': 'So this is a repository for all your configuration management data.', 'start': 953.598, 'duration': 3.281}, {'end': 959.64, 'text': "And here I've got the Ansible automation engine.", 'start': 957.279, 'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 961.301, 'text': "I've got the inventory here.", 'start': 960.08, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 966.943, 'text': 'And inventory is nothing but the list of all the IP addresses of all my host machines.', 'start': 961.641, 'duration': 5.302}], 'summary': 'Repository holds it assets data, ansible manages inventory of ip addresses.', 'duration': 26.385, 'max_score': 940.558, 'thumbnail': 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'text': 'So make sure that the first task would be install software A and the next task would be install software B.', 'start': 1202.773, 'duration': 5.824}], 'summary': 'Create playbook to specify host machines, gather variables, and execute tasks in order.', 'duration': 29.32, 'max_score': 1179.277, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr41179277.jpg'}, {'end': 1342.59, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1311.774, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 1312.814, 'text': "So you'll be learning again.", 'start': 1311.774, 'duration': 1.04}, {'end': 1317.638, 'text': "So if it's looking a little gibberish for you, we'll be doing that on the hands-on part.", 'start': 1313.275, 'duration': 4.363}, {'end': 1319.299, 'text': 'So then it will clear all your doubts.', 'start': 1317.718, 'duration': 1.581}, {'end': 1324.041, 'text': 'So, now let us see how to use Ansible and understand its applications.', 'start': 1320.299, 'duration': 3.742}, {'end': 1333.266, 'text': 'So, we can use Ansible for application deployment, configuration management, security and compliance, provisioning and orchestration.', 'start': 1325.182, 'duration': 8.084}, {'end': 1335.727, 'text': 'So, let us take a look at them one by one.', 'start': 1333.906, 'duration': 1.821}, {'end': 1339.469, 'text': 'First, let us see how we can use Ansible for orchestration.', 'start': 1336.327, 'duration': 3.142}, {'end': 1342.59, 'text': "Okay, I've got a question from Mahesh.", 'start': 1341.069, 'duration': 1.521}], 'summary': 'Learning ansible for deployment, management, security, and orchestration.', 'duration': 30.816, 'max_score': 1311.774, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr41311774.jpg'}, {'end': 1388.541, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1358.056, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 1360.198, 'text': 'So this is the process of orchestration,', 'start': 1358.056, 'duration': 2.142}, {'end': 1371.727, 'text': 'where I decide that how the different configurations on different of my systems and my infrastructure would interact with each other in order to maintain a seamless flow of my application.', 'start': 1360.198, 'duration': 11.529}, {'end': 1380.514, 'text': "And your application deployments need to be orchestrated, because you've got a front end and back end services, you've got databases,", 'start': 1372.387, 'duration': 8.127}, {'end': 1388.541, 'text': "you've got monitoring networks and storage, and each of them has their own role to play with with their configuration and deployment.", 'start': 1380.514, 'duration': 8.027}], 'summary': 'Orchestration is crucial for seamless application flow with front end, back end services, databases, monitoring networks, and storage.', 'duration': 30.485, 'max_score': 1358.056, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr41358056.jpg'}, {'end': 1570.309, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1545.694, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 1555.94, 'text': 'so you can list out the name of all the software development kits and all these necessary softwares that you will require for coding this web that it would require in order to develop your web application.', 'start': 1545.694, 'duration': 10.246}, {'end': 1564.665, 'text': "So you can list out all the necessary softwares that you'd be needing in an Ansible playbook in order to develop your web application.", 'start': 1556.921, 'duration': 7.744}, {'end': 1570.309, 'text': 'And for testing your code out, you will again need Microsoft Azure document database.', 'start': 1565.366, 'duration': 4.943}], 'summary': 'List all necessary software development kits and tools for web application development, including microsoft azure document database for testing.', 'duration': 24.615, 'max_score': 1545.694, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr41545694.jpg'}, {'end': 1626.983, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1602.327, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 1610.073, 'text': 'Now Ansible configurations are simple data descriptions of your infrastructure, which is both human readable and machine parsable.', 'start': 1602.327, 'duration': 7.746}, {'end': 1615.778, 'text': 'And Ansible requires nothing more than an SSH key in order to start managing systems,', 'start': 1610.574, 'duration': 5.204}, {'end': 1620.221, 'text': 'and you can start managing them without installing any kind of agent or client software.', 'start': 1615.778, 'duration': 4.443}, {'end': 1626.983, 'text': 'So you can avoid the problem of managing the management, which is very common in different automation systems.', 'start': 1621.042, 'duration': 5.941}], 'summary': 'Ansible simplifies infrastructure management with human-readable, machine-parsable configurations. requires only an ssh key for system management without agent or client software.', 'duration': 24.656, 'max_score': 1602.327, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr41602327.jpg'}, {'end': 1691.225, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1663.97, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 1671.452, 'text': 'So let us move on to the next topic, and let us see how application deployment has been made easier with Ansible.', 'start': 1663.97, 'duration': 7.482}, {'end': 1676.157, 'text': 'Now Ansible is the simplest way to deploy your applications.', 'start': 1672.495, 'duration': 3.662}, {'end': 1682.621, 'text': 'It gives you the power to deploy all your multi-tier applications very reliably and consistently.', 'start': 1676.817, 'duration': 5.804}, {'end': 1685.562, 'text': 'And you can do it all from a common framework.', 'start': 1683.381, 'duration': 2.181}, {'end': 1691.225, 'text': 'You can configure all the needed services as well as push application artifacts from one system.', 'start': 1685.882, 'duration': 5.343}], 'summary': 'Ansible simplifies application deployment, ensuring reliable and consistent deployment of multi-tier applications from a common framework.', 'duration': 27.255, 'max_score': 1663.97, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr41663970.jpg'}, {'end': 1738.194, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1707.315, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1713.239, 'text': 'Playbooks make all your installations, all your upgrades for day-to-day management very repeatable.', 'start': 1707.315, 'duration': 5.924}, {'end': 1719.543, 'text': 'With Ansible, you can write playbooks which are the descriptions of the desired state of the systems.', 'start': 1713.719, 'duration': 5.824}, {'end': 1721.665, 'text': 'These are usually kept in the source control.', 'start': 1719.623, 'duration': 2.042}, {'end': 1729.09, 'text': 'Ansible then does all the hard work for you to get all your systems in the desired state no matter what state they are currently in.', 'start': 1722.205, 'duration': 6.885}, {'end': 1738.194, 'text': 'And playbooks make all your installations, your upgrades, for all your day-to-day management in a very repeatable and reliable way.', 'start': 1729.97, 'duration': 8.224}], 'summary': 'Ansible playbooks ensure repeatable installations and upgrades for day-to-day management, kept in source control.', 'duration': 30.879, 'max_score': 1707.315, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr41707315.jpg'}, {'end': 1895.677, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1829.621, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 1833.824, 'text': 'And with Ansible, you can simply define security for your systems using playbooks.', 'start': 1829.621, 'duration': 4.203}, {'end': 1842.71, 'text': 'With playbooks, you can set up firewall rules, you can lock down different users or groups, and you can even apply custom security policies as well.', 'start': 1834.704, 'duration': 8.006}, {'end': 1848.234, 'text': 'Now, Ansible also works with the MindPoint group, which writes Ansible roles to apply D-SUSTIC.', 'start': 1843.17, 'duration': 5.064}, {'end': 1857.361, 'text': 'Now, D-SUSTIC is a cybersecurity methodology for standardizing security protocols within your network servers and different computers.', 'start': 1848.734, 'duration': 8.627}, {'end': 1862.445, 'text': 'And also it is very compliant with the existing SSH and WinRM protocols.', 'start': 1858.379, 'duration': 4.066}, {'end': 1867.151, 'text': 'And this is also a reason why Ansible is preferred over other configuration management tools.', 'start': 1862.885, 'duration': 4.266}, {'end': 1873.42, 'text': 'And it is also compatible with different security verification tools like OpenSCAP and Stigma.', 'start': 1867.772, 'duration': 5.648}, {'end': 1882.527, 'text': 'What tools like OpenSCAP and Stigma does is that it carries out a timely inspection of all your software inventory and check for any kind of vulnerabilities.', 'start': 1873.88, 'duration': 8.647}, {'end': 1887.37, 'text': 'And it allows you to take steps to prevent those attacks before they actually happen.', 'start': 1883.267, 'duration': 4.103}, {'end': 1891.834, 'text': 'And you can apply this security over your entire infrastructure using Ansible.', 'start': 1887.771, 'duration': 4.063}, {'end': 1895.677, 'text': "So guys, I hope that you've understood security with Ansible.", 'start': 1892.414, 'duration': 3.263}], 'summary': 'Ansible enables easy security setup with playbooks, d-sustic methodology, and compatibility with ssh and winrm protocols, making it preferred over other tools. it also integrates with security verification tools like openscap and stigma for vulnerability checks and prevention.', 'duration': 66.056, 'max_score': 1829.621, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr41829621.jpg'}, {'end': 2072.105, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2039.678, 'weight': 14, 'content': [{'end': 2040.718, 'text': 'it pulls those changes.', 'start': 2039.678, 'duration': 1.04}, {'end': 2046.803, 'text': 'But the main difference between both the architectures is that from a push based configuration management tool.', 'start': 2041.298, 'duration': 5.505}, {'end': 2052.808, 'text': 'It has got an agent present and then this agent or the client is a software that manages all the nodes.', 'start': 2047.163, 'duration': 5.645}, {'end': 2059.033, 'text': 'So what this agent does is that it constantly pulls the central server for any configuration changes by this.', 'start': 2053.248, 'duration': 5.785}, {'end': 2065.018, 'text': 'I mean that it keeps on checking the central server for any changes in the configuration that needs to be made,', 'start': 2059.474, 'duration': 5.544}, {'end': 2072.105, 'text': 'and whenever it finds any kind of configuration changes, it pulls those changes and then only it gets affected onto the node machines.', 'start': 2065.018, 'duration': 7.087}], 'summary': 'Push-based configuration management tool uses agent to pull changes from central server.', 'duration': 32.427, 'max_score': 2039.678, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr42039678.jpg'}, {'end': 2162.073, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2131.823, 'weight': 15, 'content': [{'end': 2135.266, 'text': "as I've talked so much about ansible, you would be interested to install it.", 'start': 2131.823, 'duration': 3.443}, {'end': 2138.068, 'text': 'So how do you think that you can install ansible?', 'start': 2135.906, 'duration': 2.162}, {'end': 2141.85, 'text': 'So before I start telling you the steps to install ansible,', 'start': 2138.808, 'duration': 3.042}, {'end': 2145.833, 'text': 'let me tell you that there are basically two types of machine when we talk about deployment.', 'start': 2141.85, 'duration': 3.983}, {'end': 2148.515, 'text': 'Those are the control machine and the remote machines.', 'start': 2146.273, 'duration': 2.242}, {'end': 2153.106, 'text': 'So the control machines are the machines from where we can manage other machines,', 'start': 2149.102, 'duration': 4.004}, {'end': 2157.63, 'text': 'and the remote machines are those machines which are handled or controlled by the control machine.', 'start': 2153.106, 'duration': 4.524}, {'end': 2162.073, 'text': 'So they can be multiple remote machines which are handled by a single control machine.', 'start': 2158.03, 'duration': 4.043}], 'summary': 'To install ansible, understand control and remote machines, and manage multiple remotes from one control.', 'duration': 30.25, 'max_score': 2131.823, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr42131823.jpg'}, {'end': 2294.983, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2271.984, 'weight': 16, 'content': [{'end': 2279.086, 'text': "You will add a new repository on the name of ansible and then you'll update your own repositories and then finally you'll install ansible.", 'start': 2271.984, 'duration': 7.102}, {'end': 2281.387, 'text': 'So these are the commands that you have to use.', 'start': 2279.486, 'duration': 1.901}, {'end': 2283.412, 'text': 'Now moving on with the session.', 'start': 2282.111, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 2289.598, 'text': 'What do you think this host inventory is? Well inventory defines a group of hosts which are alike in any way.', 'start': 2283.793, 'duration': 5.805}, {'end': 2294.983, 'text': 'So, for example, you would want to group your web servers in one group and application servers in another.', 'start': 2289.978, 'duration': 5.005}], 'summary': 'Add ansible repository, update own repositories, and install ansible. host inventory defines groups of alike hosts.', 'duration': 22.999, 'max_score': 2271.984, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr42271984.jpg'}, {'end': 2346.616, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2322.161, 'weight': 17, 'content': [{'end': 2330.386, 'text': 'So as you can see on the screen, this is just a list of IP addresses on my notes and also you can name the groups of your different IP addresses.', 'start': 2322.161, 'duration': 8.225}, {'end': 2336.172, 'text': 'So, for example, if I want to group my web servers together and my data servers together,', 'start': 2331.09, 'duration': 5.082}, {'end': 2341.274, 'text': 'all I have to do is I have to write a group name between the two square brackets and a big group together.', 'start': 2336.172, 'duration': 5.102}, {'end': 2346.616, 'text': 'So whenever you want to make configuration changes just on the web server and not on the database server.', 'start': 2341.514, 'duration': 5.102}], 'summary': 'Organize ip addresses using groups for efficient configuration changes.', 'duration': 24.455, 'max_score': 2322.161, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr42322161.jpg'}, {'end': 2391.476, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2360.596, 'weight': 18, 'content': [{'end': 2364.479, 'text': 'So modules are those executable plugins that get the real job done.', 'start': 2360.596, 'duration': 3.883}, {'end': 2371.063, 'text': 'So usually modules can take the key value arguments and run in a customized way depending upon the arguments themselves.', 'start': 2364.879, 'duration': 6.184}, {'end': 2375.807, 'text': 'So a module can be invoked by command line or can be included in the Ansible playbook.', 'start': 2371.544, 'duration': 4.263}, {'end': 2379.568, 'text': 'Now, let me tell you some commands related to Ansible modules.', 'start': 2376.585, 'duration': 2.983}, {'end': 2385.955, 'text': 'Now, if you want to use the modules from command line, you have to type in the command ansible all hyphen m ping.', 'start': 2380.049, 'duration': 5.906}, {'end': 2391.476, 'text': 'Now, if you want to use the ping module to ping all the hosts defined in the inventory,', 'start': 2386.773, 'duration': 4.703}], 'summary': "Ansible modules are executable plugins invoked by command line or playbook, taking key value arguments and running in a customized way. commands include 'ansible all -m ping'.", 'duration': 30.88, 'max_score': 2360.596, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr42360596.jpg'}, {'end': 2461.801, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 2233.217, 'weight': 19, 'content': [{'end': 2236.88, 'text': "Now once you're done updating your repositories, you have to install ansible.", 'start': 2233.217, 'duration': 3.663}, {'end': 2243.285, 'text': "So for that you'll type in the command sudo apt-get install ansible.", 'start': 2237.44, 'duration': 5.845}, {'end': 2246.227, 'text': 'So this will basically install the ansible tool.', 'start': 2244.045, 'duration': 2.182}, {'end': 2254.273, 'text': 'So you can see that your ansible has been installed.', 'start': 2252.091, 'duration': 2.182}, {'end': 2256.855, 'text': "So guys that's how you can install ansible.", 'start': 2254.693, 'duration': 2.162}, {'end': 2259.197, 'text': "Now, let's move on with the session.", 'start': 2257.836, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 2266.523, 'text': 'So now let me just give you a summary of the commands that you need when you install ansible you just have to update your repositories.', 'start': 2259.821, 'duration': 6.702}, {'end': 2270.264, 'text': "Once you're done with that you have to install the common software properties.", 'start': 2266.663, 'duration': 3.601}, {'end': 2271.924, 'text': 'Once that is also done.', 'start': 2270.864, 'duration': 1.06}, {'end': 2279.086, 'text': "You will add a new repository on the name of ansible and then you'll update your own repositories and then finally you'll install ansible.", 'start': 2271.984, 'duration': 7.102}, {'end': 2281.387, 'text': 'So these are the commands that you have to use.', 'start': 2279.486, 'duration': 1.901}, {'end': 2283.412, 'text': 'Now moving on with the session.', 'start': 2282.111, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 2289.598, 'text': 'What do you think this host inventory is? Well inventory defines a group of hosts which are alike in any way.', 'start': 2283.793, 'duration': 5.805}, {'end': 2294.983, 'text': 'So, for example, you would want to group your web servers in one group and application servers in another.', 'start': 2289.978, 'duration': 5.005}, {'end': 2300.468, 'text': 'right. so group can have multiple servers or a single server that can be a part of multiple groups.', 'start': 2294.983, 'duration': 5.485}, {'end': 2307.651, 'text': 'So the name of the group is enclosed in square brackets and the server names can be their DNS names or IP addresses.', 'start': 2301.167, 'duration': 6.484}, {'end': 2316.377, 'text': 'So, by default, ansible looks at the inventory file, but that can be modified by passing the inventory part to the ansible command line.', 'start': 2308.152, 'duration': 8.225}, {'end': 2321.82, 'text': 'so we can modify the way ansible connects to our host by supplying the additional information in the inventory file.', 'start': 2316.377, 'duration': 5.443}, {'end': 2330.386, 'text': 'So as you can see on the screen, this is just a list of IP addresses on my notes and also you can name the groups of your different IP addresses.', 'start': 2322.161, 'duration': 8.225}, {'end': 2336.172, 'text': 'So, for example, if I want to group my web servers together and my data servers together,', 'start': 2331.09, 'duration': 5.082}, {'end': 2341.274, 'text': 'all I have to do is I have to write a group name between the two square brackets and a big group together.', 'start': 2336.172, 'duration': 5.102}, {'end': 2346.616, 'text': 'So whenever you want to make configuration changes just on the web server and not on the database server.', 'start': 2341.514, 'duration': 5.102}, {'end': 2353.299, 'text': 'All you have to do is you just have to mention the group name on the host and then it will automatically configure your web server.', 'start': 2346.816, 'duration': 6.483}, {'end': 2355.913, 'text': 'So guys that was about host inventory.', 'start': 2353.971, 'duration': 1.942}, {'end': 2360.136, 'text': 'Now if you talk about another key term in Ansible that is Ansible modules.', 'start': 2356.493, 'duration': 3.643}, {'end': 2364.479, 'text': 'So modules are those executable plugins that get the real job done.', 'start': 2360.596, 'duration': 3.883}, {'end': 2371.063, 'text': 'So usually modules can take the key value arguments and run in a customized way depending upon the arguments themselves.', 'start': 2364.879, 'duration': 6.184}, {'end': 2375.807, 'text': 'So a module can be invoked by command line or can be included in the Ansible playbook.', 'start': 2371.544, 'duration': 4.263}, {'end': 2379.568, 'text': 'Now, let me tell you some commands related to Ansible modules.', 'start': 2376.585, 'duration': 2.983}, {'end': 2385.955, 'text': 'Now, if you want to use the modules from command line, you have to type in the command ansible all hyphen m ping.', 'start': 2380.049, 'duration': 5.906}, {'end': 2391.476, 'text': 'Now, if you want to use the ping module to ping all the hosts defined in the inventory,', 'start': 2386.773, 'duration': 4.703}, {'end': 2396.58, 'text': 'then you have to type in the command ansible web servers hyphen M command, hyphen a, LS.', 'start': 2391.476, 'duration': 5.104}, {'end': 2400.863, 'text': 'So this will basically list all the modules present and then it will ping.', 'start': 2396.94, 'duration': 3.923}, {'end': 2407.647, 'text': 'now if you want to flush IP table rules on all the hosts in the inventory, then you have to type in the command ansible hyphen.', 'start': 2400.863, 'duration': 6.784}, {'end': 2410.629, 'text': 'I inventory all hyphen M command hyphen a.', 'start': 2407.647, 'duration': 2.982}, {'end': 2411.89, 'text': 'IP tables F.', 'start': 2410.629, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 2415.553, 'text': 'hyphen. hyphen become hyphen ask hyphen become hyphen pass.', 'start': 2411.89, 'duration': 3.663}, {'end': 2419.977, 'text': 'So this will basically tell ansible to execute the command with pseudo privileges.', 'start': 2416.133, 'duration': 3.844}, {'end': 2427.685, 'text': 'So, if you want ansible to gather facts about the host, then you have to type in the command ansible all hyphen m setup.', 'start': 2420.978, 'duration': 6.707}, {'end': 2435.333, 'text': 'and also, if you want to extract particular facts in the documentation of the setup module, you have to type in the command ansible hyphen doc setup.', 'start': 2427.685, 'duration': 7.648}, {'end': 2439.297, 'text': 'So guys these were few commands that you can use with ansible modules.', 'start': 2435.953, 'duration': 3.344}, {'end': 2441.523, 'text': 'Now moving on with the session.', 'start': 2440.302, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 2445.187, 'text': 'Let me tell you about the yaml files because that is the file that has been used.', 'start': 2441.723, 'duration': 3.464}, {'end': 2449.61, 'text': 'So ansible uses yaml syntax for expressing ansible playbooks.', 'start': 2445.587, 'duration': 4.023}, {'end': 2457.077, 'text': "ansible uses yaml because it's really simple for humans to understand, read and write when compared to the other data formats like XML or JSON.", 'start': 2449.61, 'duration': 7.467}, {'end': 2461.801, 'text': 'So every yaml file optionally starts with three hyphens and ends with three dots.', 'start': 2457.598, 'duration': 4.203}], 'summary': "Install ansible using 'sudo apt-get install ansible' and manage hosts and modules using commands and yaml files.", 'duration': 40.823, 'max_score': 2233.217, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr42233217.jpg'}], 'start': 880.524, 'title': 'Ansible in it management', 'summary': "Covers the impact of ansible on nasa's management system, its architecture, the functions of modules, apis, and plugins, writing an ansible playbook in yaml code, orchestration's importance, security, and ip grouping in ansible inventory.", 'chapters': [{'end': 1116.254, 'start': 880.524, 'title': 'Ansible architecture overview', 'summary': "Discusses the impact of ansible on nasa's management system, the components of ansible architecture, and the functions of modules, apis, and plugins in ansible, emphasizing its versatility and adaptability in it installations.", 'duration': 235.73, 'highlights': ["Ansible drastically changed the management system of NASA. The impact of Ansible on NASA's management system is highlighted, demonstrating the significant transformation it brought about.", "Ansible architecture components include automation engine, inventory, playbook, and configuration management database. The components of Ansible architecture, such as automation engine, inventory, playbook, and configuration management database, are outlined, providing a comprehensive understanding of Ansible's structure.", 'Configuration management database acts as a data warehouse for IT installations, storing configuration details and relationships between assets. The role of the configuration management database as a repository for IT installation data and its function in storing configuration details and asset relationships is explained, emphasizing its importance in IT management.', 'Playbooks describe the workflow of the system, containing modules, APIs, and plugins that execute tasks on node machines. The function of playbooks in describing system workflows, containing modules, APIs, and plugins, and their role in executing tasks on node machines is detailed, highlighting their pivotal role in system management.', 'Modules, APIs, and plugins in Ansible offer versatility and adaptability, with the ability to customize them for different IT installations. The versatility and adaptability of modules, APIs, and plugins in Ansible, including the option to customize them for diverse IT installations, are emphasized, showcasing their flexibility in addressing varied IT needs.']}, {'end': 1465.012, 'start': 1116.314, 'title': 'Ansible playbook and orchestration', 'summary': "Covers how to write an ansible playbook in yaml code and the importance of orchestration in managing configurations and deployments, with a focus on ansible's applications such as application deployment, configuration management, security and compliance, provisioning, and orchestration.", 'duration': 348.698, 'highlights': ['Ansible applications: application deployment, configuration management, security and compliance, provisioning, and orchestration Ansible can be used for various applications such as application deployment, configuration management, security and compliance, provisioning, and orchestration.', 'Importance of orchestration in managing configurations and deployments Orchestration is crucial for ensuring the proper interaction and sequencing of configurations across different systems and infrastructure components, maintaining a seamless flow of applications.', 'Writing an Ansible playbook in YAML code Ansible playbooks are simple files written in YAML code, outlining the host machines, variables, tasks, and handlers, and executed in a specific order to perform tasks such as software installation and service restarts.']}, {'end': 1829.181, 'start': 1465.853, 'title': 'Ansible: orchestration, provisioning, configuration management, deployment and security', 'summary': "Discusses ansible's orchestration, provisioning, configuration management, deployment, and security, emphasizing its capabilities in managing infrastructure, provisioning necessary software, simplifying configuration management, enabling application deployment, and ensuring system security.", 'duration': 363.328, 'highlights': ['Ansible provisions the necessary softwares for applications in different environments, simplifying the deployment process. Ansible ensures that all the necessary software needed for applications to run is properly installed in each environment of the infrastructure, simplifying the deployment process.', 'Ansible facilitates configuration management without the need for agent or client software, making it simpler and efficient. Ansible configurations are simple data descriptions of the infrastructure, requiring only an SSH key to start managing systems without installing any agent or client software, simplifying and streamlining the process.', 'Ansible provides a simple and reliable way to deploy multi-tier applications, enabling consistent application deployment and management. Ansible simplifies application deployment by providing a common framework to deploy multi-tier applications reliably and consistently, making installations, upgrades, and day-to-day management repeatable and reliable.', "Ansible aids in ensuring system security by allowing simple application of security measures and continuous monitoring of system compliance. In today's complex IT environment, Ansible enables defining and applying security measures for systems, data, and customers' data, as well as monitoring systems to ensure compliance with security measures."]}, {'end': 2321.82, 'start': 1829.621, 'title': 'Security with ansible', 'summary': 'Discusses how ansible provides security by defining security for systems using playbooks, applying d-sustic cybersecurity methodology, compatibility with ssh and winrm protocols, and its ability to work with security verification tools like openscap and stigma.', 'duration': 492.199, 'highlights': ['Ansible provides security by defining security for systems using playbooks Ansible allows setting up firewall rules, locking down users or groups, and applying custom security policies using playbooks.', 'Compatibility with SSH and WinRM protocols and D-SUSTIC cybersecurity methodology Ansible is compliant with existing SSH and WinRM protocols and works with the D-SUSTIC cybersecurity methodology for standardizing security protocols within the network servers.', 'Compatibility with security verification tools like OpenSCAP and Stigma Ansible is compatible with security verification tools such as OpenSCAP and Stigma, allowing timely inspection of software inventory and vulnerability checks.', "Difference between push-based and pull-based architecture in configuration management tools Ansible is a push-based configuration management tool, unlike puppet and chef, which are pull-based. Ansible's push-based system allows direct configuration changes without the need for agents, providing full control and simplicity.", "Steps to install Ansible on control and remote machines To install Ansible, update repositories, install common software properties, add Ansible's repository, update repositories again, and then install Ansible on the control machine.", 'Definition and usage of host inventory in Ansible Inventory in Ansible defines a group of hosts and their characteristics, allowing grouping of servers and modification of the way Ansible connects to hosts.']}, {'end': 2522.696, 'start': 2322.161, 'title': 'Ansible: modules, yaml files & ip grouping', 'summary': 'Discusses ip grouping in ansible inventory, usage of ansible modules including commands, and the use of yaml files for expressing ansible playbooks, emphasizing the simplicity and structure of yaml syntax.', 'duration': 200.535, 'highlights': ['IP grouping allows for efficient configuration changes by grouping hosts, making it easy to configure specific servers, such as web or database servers, by simply mentioning the group name on the host. Efficient configuration changes, grouping of web and data servers', 'Ansible modules are executable plugins that perform specific tasks and can be invoked from the command line or included in Ansible playbooks. Functionality of Ansible modules, invocation from command line or playbook', "Usage of specific commands with Ansible modules, such as 'ansible all -m ping' to ping all hosts, 'ansible web servers -m command -a LS' to list modules and ping, and 'ansible -i inventory all -m command -a 'IP tables F' --become --ask-become-pass' to flush IP table rules with sudo privileges. Commands for pinging, listing modules, and flushing IP table rules", 'YAML files are utilized for expressing Ansible playbooks due to the simplicity of human-readable yaml syntax, which starts with three hyphens and ends with three dots, and enables representation of dictionaries and lists in a structured manner. Utilization of YAML files, syntax, and structured representation']}], 'duration': 1642.172, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr4880524.jpg', 'highlights': ["Ansible drastically changed NASA's management system.", 'Ansible architecture includes automation engine, inventory, playbook, and configuration management database.', 'Configuration management database stores configuration details and relationships between assets.', 'Playbooks describe system workflows and contain modules, APIs, and plugins.', 'Ansible applications: deployment, configuration management, security, provisioning, and orchestration.', 'Orchestration is crucial for managing configurations and deployments.', 'Writing an Ansible playbook in YAML code outlines host machines, variables, tasks, and handlers.', 'Ansible provisions necessary software for applications in different environments.', 'Ansible facilitates configuration management without the need for agent or client software.', 'Ansible provides a simple and reliable way to deploy multi-tier applications.', 'Ansible aids in ensuring system security by allowing simple application of security measures.', 'Ansible provides security by defining security for systems using playbooks.', 'Compatibility with SSH and WinRM protocols and D-SUSTIC cybersecurity methodology.', 'Compatibility with security verification tools like OpenSCAP and Stigma.', 'Difference between push-based and pull-based architecture in configuration management tools.', 'Steps to install Ansible on control and remote machines.', 'Definition and usage of host inventory in Ansible.', 'IP grouping allows for efficient configuration changes by grouping hosts.', 'Ansible modules are executable plugins that perform specific tasks.', 'Usage of specific commands with Ansible modules.', 'YAML files are utilized for expressing Ansible playbooks due to the simplicity of human-readable yaml syntax.']}, {'end': 3427.084, 'segs': [{'end': 2548.702, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2522.716, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 2528.798, 'text': 'You can type in America China Canada and Iceland right now further talking about yaml files.', 'start': 2522.716, 'duration': 6.082}, {'end': 2531.239, 'text': 'You can also represent a list of dictionaries.', 'start': 2529.078, 'duration': 2.161}, {'end': 2540.413, 'text': 'So yaml uses the pipeline to include new lines while showing multiple lines and uses the greater than symbol to suppress new lines while showing multiple lines.', 'start': 2532.003, 'duration': 8.41}, {'end': 2546.08, 'text': 'So due to this we can read and edit large lines and in both the cases indentations are ignored.', 'start': 2540.874, 'duration': 5.206}, {'end': 2548.702, 'text': 'So guys, that was about the YAML files.', 'start': 2546.781, 'duration': 1.921}], 'summary': 'Yaml allows representing lists of dictionaries, using pipelines for new lines and the greater than symbol to suppress new 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{'end': 2774.971, 'text': "Let's say I mentioned the name to be test servers.", 'start': 2772.871, 'duration': 2.1}, {'end': 2776.932, 'text': "So for that I'll type in test servers.", 'start': 2775.171, 'duration': 1.761}, {'end': 2779.437, 'text': "and then I'll mention the name of the node.", 'start': 2777.575, 'duration': 1.862}, {'end': 2781.519, 'text': 'So let me just type in the name of the node.', 'start': 2779.817, 'duration': 1.702}, {'end': 2784.261, 'text': 'So over here my name of the node is K node.', 'start': 2781.899, 'duration': 2.362}, {'end': 2789.005, 'text': "So I've mentioned that now once this is done just save this file and close this file.", 'start': 2784.301, 'duration': 4.704}, {'end': 2795.511, 'text': "So for that you'll press the keyboard shortcut, control X and then press on Y, so this will save your host inventory file.", 'start': 2789.446, 'duration': 6.065}, {'end': 2801.461, 'text': "So once you're done with that, you know you have to mention the SSH 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3057.826, 'duration': 3.721}, {'end': 3066.409, 'text': 'that is basically the task that we mentioned now to check whether it is running on the other node or not.', 'start': 3061.547, 'duration': 4.862}, {'end': 3068.587, 'text': 'You have to switch to your other node.', 'start': 3067.026, 'duration': 1.561}, {'end': 3070.308, 'text': 'So let me just switch to my other node.', 'start': 3068.627, 'duration': 1.681}, {'end': 3075.152, 'text': 'Stop now to check whether engines has been installed or not on the other node.', 'start': 3071.689, 'duration': 3.463}, {'end': 3086.519, 'text': "Let's type in the command PS walks that is w aux space pipeline space grep the name of the file that we install that is engines.", 'start': 3075.292, 'duration': 11.227}], 'summary': "Playbook installs engines container and checks if it's running on another node.", 'duration': 28.693, 'max_score': 3057.826, 'thumbnail': 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{'end': 3156.416, 'text': 'So let us go to my control machine and start writing the playbooks.', 'start': 3153.713, 'duration': 2.703}, {'end': 3159.88, 'text': 'So this is my Ansible control machine.', 'start': 3157.698, 'duration': 2.182}, {'end': 3162.123, 'text': "Now let's go to the terminal first.", 'start': 3160.481, 'duration': 1.642}, {'end': 3165.863, 'text': 'So this is the terminal of my Ansible control machine.', 'start': 3163.342, 'duration': 2.521}, {'end': 3171.245, 'text': "And now I've already installed Ansible here and I've already made an SSH connection with my node machine.", 'start': 3166.463, 'duration': 4.782}], 'summary': 'Setting up ansible control machine and deploying website to ansible host 1.', 'duration': 39, 'max_score': 3132.245, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr43132245.jpg'}, {'end': 3354.636, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3323.553, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 3326.414, 'text': 'So 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absent, and it works that way.', 'start': 3484.042, 'duration': 4.923}, {'end': 3497.07, 'text': "So I've installed an Apache PHP module, and I've installed PHP client, PHP encrypt, PHP GD library.", 'start': 3489.826, 'duration': 7.244}, {'end': 3504.995, 'text': "I've installed a package, PHP MySQL, and finally I've installed the MySQL server in the similar way that I've installed Apache 2.", 'start': 3497.09, 'duration': 7.905}, {'end': 3510.562, 'text': 'Now this is a very simple playbook to provision your node machine and actually all the playbooks are simple.', 'start': 3504.995, 'duration': 5.567}, {'end': 3512.905, 'text': 'So I hope that you have understood how to write a playbook.', 'start': 3510.722, 'duration': 2.183}, {'end': 3517.07, 'text': 'Now let me tell you something that you should always keep in mind while you are writing playbooks.', 'start': 3513.045, 'duration': 4.025}, {'end': 3520.935, 'text': 'Make sure that you are always extra careful with the 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'text': 'So my playbook was run successfully onto my node machine.', 'start': 3651.269, 'duration': 3.282}, {'end': 3659.114, 'text': 'So let us check my node machine and see if Apache and MySQL has been installed.', 'start': 3655.472, 'duration': 3.642}], 'summary': 'Node machine shows 7 changes, 0 unreachable hosts, and 0 failed tasks, indicating successful playbook execution.', 'duration': 26.476, 'max_score': 3632.638, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr43632638.jpg'}, {'end': 3988.908, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3962.566, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 3968.748, 'text': "Similarly, I'm using the MySQL DB module to create a database in my MySQL server named edu.", 'start': 3962.566, 'duration': 6.182}, {'end': 3973.67, 'text': 'So this is the very simple syntax of using MySQL DB module.', 'start': 3969.589, 'duration': 4.081}, {'end': 3979.193, 'text': 'We have to just give the name of the database in DB equal to and state equal to present.', 'start': 3974.071, 'duration': 5.122}, {'end': 3981.754, 'text': 'So this will create a database named edu.', 'start': 3979.493, 'duration': 2.261}, {'end': 3988.908, 'text': 'And after that I also need to create a table inside the database for storing my name and email details right?', 'start': 3983.424, 'duration': 5.484}], 'summary': 'Using mysql db module to create a database named edu and a table for name and email details.', 'duration': 26.342, 'max_score': 3962.566, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr43962566.jpg'}, {'end': 4155.781, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4124.818, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 4130.462, 'text': 'In order to display this HTML files and PHP files on my web server in my node machine,', 'start': 4124.818, 'duration': 5.644}, {'end': 4137.727, 'text': 'what I need to do is that I need to copy these files from my control machine to the proper location in my node machine,', 'start': 4130.462, 'duration': 7.265}, {'end': 4139.368, 'text': 'and we can do that using playbooks.', 'start': 4137.727, 'duration': 1.641}, {'end': 4142.595, 'text': 'So let me just show you the playbook to copy files.', 'start': 4140.154, 'duration': 2.441}, {'end': 4147.957, 'text': 'And the name of my file is deploy website.', 'start': 4145.676, 'duration': 2.281}, {'end': 4155.781, 'text': 'So this is my playbook to deploy my application.', 'start': 4153.04, 'duration': 2.741}], 'summary': 'To display html and php files on the web server, use playbooks to copy files to the node machine.', 'duration': 30.963, 'max_score': 4124.818, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44124818.jpg'}], 'start': 3427.524, 'title': 'Provisioning and deploying using ansible playbook', 'summary': 'Covers the importance of careful indentation in ansible playbooks, successful deployment of apache and mysql servers, creation of a mysql database and table, and deployment of application files using ansible playbooks.', 'chapters': [{'end': 3504.995, 'start': 3427.524, 'title': 'Provisioning playbook for hosting a website', 'summary': 'Explains a provisioning playbook for hosting a website, detailing the list of tasks including installing apache, php modules, and mysql server with specific syntax and states for package installation.', 'duration': 77.471, 'highlights': ['The chapter details the list of tasks for a provisioning playbook, including installing necessary softwares for hosting a website on a node machine.', "It explains the installation of Apache 2 using the package module and specifies the syntax and state for package installation, such as using 'state equal to present' for installing packages for the first time.", 'It outlines the installation of various PHP modules like PHP client, PHP encrypt, PHP GD library, and PHP MySQL using the package module.']}, {'end': 4290.488, 'start': 3504.995, 'title': 'Provisioning and deploying using ansible playbook', 'summary': 'Covers the importance of careful indentation in ansible playbooks, the successful deployment of apache and mysql servers with confirmation through common return values, the creation of a mysql database and table with the use of ansible playbooks, and the deployment of application files to the node machine using the copy module.', 'duration': 785.493, 'highlights': ["The successful deployment of Apache and MySQL servers is confirmed through common return values, with 'changed' equal to 7 indicating the installation of new packages and 'failed' equal to 0 indicating no failed tasks, thus ensuring the playbook's successful run onto the node machine. The common return values 'changed' equal to 7 and 'failed' equal to 0 confirm the successful deployment of Apache and MySQL servers, with 'changed' indicating the installation of new packages and 'failed' indicating no failed tasks.", "The creation of a MySQL database named 'edu' and a table for storing name and email details is orchestrated using Ansible playbooks, demonstrating the use of MySQL DB module and command module for executing MySQL queries. The orchestration playbook involves the creation of a MySQL database named 'edu' and a table for storing name and email details using the MySQL DB module and command module for executing MySQL queries.", 'The deployment of application files to the node machine is achieved using the copy module, with the playbook ensuring the successful transfer of HTML and PHP files to the proper location, thereby enabling the display of the webpage on the node machine. 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and email details is orchestrated using Ansible playbooks, demonstrating the use of MySQL DB module and command module for executing MySQL queries.", 'It outlines the installation of various PHP modules like PHP client, PHP encrypt, PHP GD library, and PHP MySQL using the package module.', 'The chapter details the list of tasks for a provisioning playbook, including installing necessary softwares for hosting a website on a node machine.', "It explains the installation of Apache 2 using the package module and specifies the syntax and state for package installation, such as using 'state equal to present' for installing packages for the first time."]}, {'end': 6000.146, 'segs': [{'end': 4372.516, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4326.272, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 4332.095, 'text': 'Now even though at the beginning it seemed like a huge task to do, Ansible playbooks made it so easy.', 'start': 4326.272, 'duration': 5.823}, {'end': 4345.811, 'text': 'So now moving forward with our next topic that is Ansible rules Ansible rules is a concept that deals with the ideas rather than events.', 'start': 4338.226, 'duration': 7.585}, {'end': 4352.856, 'text': "So it's basically another level of abstraction used to organize the playbooks, and they provide a skeleton for an independent,", 'start': 4346.432, 'duration': 6.424}, {'end': 4359.46, 'text': 'reusable collection of variables, tasks, templates, files and modules which can be automatically loaded into the playbooks.', 'start': 4352.856, 'duration': 6.604}, {'end': 4366.265, 'text': "So what's basically happening is that you know, the playbooks are a collection of roles and every role has a specific functionality.", 'start': 4360.101, 'duration': 6.164}, {'end': 4372.516, 'text': "Now, I'm sure by listening to these technical terms, you might not have got a good understanding about what are Ansible roles.", 'start': 4366.974, 'duration': 5.542}], 'summary': 'Ansible playbooks simplify tasks; ansible roles organize playbooks with specific functionalities.', 'duration': 46.244, 'max_score': 4326.272, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44326272.jpg'}, {'end': 4415.656, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4389.364, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 4394.646, 'text': 'So instead what you can do is you can create 10 different roles where each role will perform one task.', 'start': 4389.364, 'duration': 5.282}, {'end': 4399.349, 'text': 'Then all you need to do is mention the name of the role inside the playbook to call them.', 'start': 4395.207, 'duration': 4.142}, {'end': 4405.871, 'text': "So isn't that simple guys instead of using a single playbook to perform 10 different tasks on five different systems.", 'start': 4399.929, 'duration': 5.942}, {'end': 4412.875, 'text': "What you'll do is you'll just create 10 different roles and those 10 different rule names can be just mentioned inside the playbook to just call them.", 'start': 4406.332, 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4456.676, 'text': "Let's say you have to use five of them for another set of provisioning.", 'start': 4453.435, 'duration': 3.241}], 'summary': 'Customizable roles reduce code rewriting, saving time and effort, as seen in example of 10 rules for 10 tasks being utilized for another set of provisioning.', 'duration': 20.708, 'max_score': 4435.968, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44435968.jpg'}, {'end': 4536.982, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4513.138, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 4520.786, 'text': 'So over there you just have to use the syntax that you can see on my screen that is ansible-galaxy init and then you have to mention the role name.', 'start': 4513.138, 'duration': 7.648}, {'end': 4524.009, 'text': "For example, let's say you want to create a sample role name.", 'start': 4521.366, 'duration': 2.643}, {'end': 4528.594, 'text': 'So for that you just type in ansible-galaxy init sample role name.', 'start': 4524.71, 'duration': 3.884}, {'end': 4536.982, 'text': 'Let me just show you how that happens now to create a role what you initially have to do is you have to go to the ansible directory.', 'start': 4529.314, 'duration': 7.668}], 'summary': "To create an ansible role, use 'ansible-galaxy init' command followed by role name.", 'duration': 23.844, 'max_score': 4513.138, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44513138.jpg'}, {'end': 4626.776, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4596.796, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 4599.238, 'text': 'So now that you know how to create an answerable role.', 'start': 4596.796, 'duration': 2.442}, {'end': 4603.222, 'text': "Let's move forward and understand the directory structure of an answerable role.", 'start': 4599.518, 'duration': 3.704}, {'end': 4607.165, 'text': 'So the directory structure of an answerable role is as you can see on my screen.', 'start': 4603.842, 'duration': 3.323}, {'end': 4612.951, 'text': 'We have defaults files, handlers, meta, read.md, task templates, test and vars.', 'start': 4607.626, 'duration': 5.325}, {'end': 4616.171, 'text': 'So talk about the defaults directory first,', 'start': 4613.63, 'duration': 2.541}, {'end': 4621.634, 'text': 'with the default directory contains all those default variables which are going to be used by this particular role.', 'start': 4616.171, 'duration': 5.463}, {'end': 4623.535, 'text': 'after that comes, the files.', 'start': 4621.634, 'duration': 1.901}, {'end': 4626.776, 'text': 'the files contains those files which can be deployed by this role.', 'start': 4623.535, 'duration': 3.241}], 'summary': 'Understanding the directory structure of an ansible role, including default variables and deployable files.', 'duration': 29.98, 'max_score': 4596.796, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44596796.jpg'}, {'end': 4741.515, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4712.855, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 4714.916, 'text': 'so that was about the directory structure, guys.', 'start': 4712.855, 'duration': 2.061}, {'end': 4720.739, 'text': "Now, let's move on to our hands-on part where we'll install a mean stack application using ansible role.", 'start': 4715.436, 'duration': 5.303}, {'end': 4722.161, 'text': 'So to install,', 'start': 4721.34, 'duration': 0.821}, {'end': 4731.147, 'text': 'and mean stack application using ansible role will be just executing a single playbook and then we will have three roles one to install the prerequisites,', 'start': 4722.161, 'duration': 8.986}, {'end': 4734.31, 'text': 'one to install MongoDB and one to install node.js.', 'start': 4731.147, 'duration': 3.163}, {'end': 4735.951, 'text': "So I hope I'm clear.", 'start': 4735.05, 'duration': 0.901}, {'end': 4741.515, 'text': "We just have one playbook and we'll have three different roles that is to install prerequisites MongoDB and node.js.", 'start': 4736.031, 'duration': 5.484}], 'summary': 'Installing mean stack application using ansible role requires executing a single playbook with three roles: prerequisites, mongodb, and node.js.', 'duration': 28.66, 'max_score': 4712.855, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44712855.jpg'}, {'end': 4819.506, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4791.161, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 4795.202, 'text': 'Now once your role has been created our next step is to configure our roles.', 'start': 4791.161, 'duration': 4.041}, {'end': 4800.183, 'text': "So to configure a rules what you'll do is you'll go to your first role that is the prerequisites role.", 'start': 4795.802, 'duration': 4.381}, {'end': 4801.563, 'text': "So you'll go to prerequisites.", 'start': 4800.263, 'duration': 1.3}, {'end': 4809.718, 'text': "and then you'll go to the task section of this particular role and then you'll write a yaml file for this particular role.", 'start': 4803.733, 'duration': 5.985}, {'end': 4814.242, 'text': "So to write a yaml file, you'll type in sudo vi main dot.", 'start': 4810.218, 'duration': 4.024}, {'end': 4819.506, 'text': "Let's say yaml will mention yml and then click on enter now.", 'start': 4814.462, 'duration': 5.044}], 'summary': 'Configure roles by writing a yaml file for the prerequisites role.', 'duration': 28.345, 'max_score': 4791.161, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44791161.jpg'}, {'end': 4931.625, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4902.204, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 4908.869, 'text': "Let's say main.yaml and now once the file opens what you have to do is to install MongoDB.", 'start': 4902.204, 'duration': 6.665}, {'end': 4915.454, 'text': 'That is a task that you have to mention in MongoDB role is that you have to mention the task to import the MongoDB public key.', 'start': 4909.069, 'duration': 6.385}, {'end': 4919.674, 'text': 'Then you have to mention the task to add the MongoDB repository.', 'start': 4916.03, 'duration': 3.644}, {'end': 4924.658, 'text': 'after that, you have to mention the task to install MongoDB and finally check if the service is running or not.', 'start': 4919.674, 'duration': 4.984}, {'end': 4931.625, 'text': 'So for all of them will define the task in the MongoDB role, right? So as you can see our main.yaml file is opened up.', 'start': 4925.419, 'duration': 6.206}], 'summary': 'Configure main.yaml to install mongodb with tasks including importing public key, adding repository, installing mongodb, and checking service status.', 'duration': 29.421, 'max_score': 4902.204, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44902204.jpg'}, {'end': 5102.725, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5076.537, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 5083.6, 'text': "and then what I'll do is I just copy paste from this particular section and I'll show you what all tasks that we are performing in this particular section.", 'start': 5076.537, 'duration': 7.063}, {'end': 5092.418, 'text': "So as you can see on my screen, we've mentioned the different tasks in the node.js role for the node.js role.", 'start': 5086.954, 'duration': 5.464}, {'end': 5097.601, 'text': 'We have various tasks, like to get the script and then to set the execution permission to the script.', 'start': 5092.458, 'duration': 5.143}, {'end': 5102.725, 'text': 'after that we have to execute the installation script and then finally remove the installation script.', 'start': 5097.601, 'duration': 5.124}], 'summary': 'Demonstrating tasks for the node.js role, including script execution and removal.', 'duration': 26.188, 'max_score': 5076.537, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr45076537.jpg'}, {'end': 5212.74, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5188.587, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 5194.891, 'text': 'So this particular task, that is to install node.js, will be executed for the build essential and the node.js parameters,', 'start': 5188.587, 'duration': 6.304}, {'end': 5198.492, 'text': 'and once the node.js is installed, what we want to do is we want to install npm.', 'start': 5194.891, 'duration': 3.601}, {'end': 5200.434, 'text': 'So to install npm.', 'start': 5199.093, 'duration': 1.341}, {'end': 5209.679, 'text': "what I've done is I mentioned the task name to be as install npm and then what I've done is I've used the app module to install npm and then I mentioned the state to be as present.", 'start': 5200.434, 'duration': 9.245}, {'end': 5210.319, 'text': 'once that is done,', 'start': 5209.679, 'duration': 0.64}, {'end': 5212.74, 'text': 'We have to install the power and the gulp globally.', 'start': 5210.359, 'duration': 2.381}], 'summary': 'Task: install node.js and npm, then install power and gulp globally.', 'duration': 24.153, 'max_score': 5188.587, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr45188587.jpg'}, {'end': 5585.376, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5554.8, 'weight': 11, 'content': [{'end': 5561.403, 'text': 'It allows you to control access and allow sharing of SSH credentials without someone being able to transfer those credentials.', 'start': 5554.8, 'duration': 6.603}, {'end': 5569.567, 'text': 'It also provides command line tools for easy integration with Jenkins and also provides great support for auto scaling topologies.', 'start': 5561.823, 'duration': 7.744}, {'end': 5576.471, 'text': 'Not only this but also your inventory can be graphically managed or sync with a wide variety of cloud services.', 'start': 5570.107, 'duration': 6.364}, {'end': 5585.376, 'text': 'Well, if you have to understand about ansible Tower, then ansible Tower is a restful API endpoint and a web-based user interface for ansible,', 'start': 5577.051, 'duration': 8.325}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower provides ssh credential control, jenkins integration, and graphical inventory management for cloud services.', 'duration': 30.576, 'max_score': 5554.8, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr45554800.jpg'}, {'end': 5764.714, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5739.174, 'weight': 12, 'content': [{'end': 5743.758, 'text': 'where you can easily control who runs what task and on what inventory.', 'start': 5739.174, 'duration': 4.584}, {'end': 5750.946, 'text': 'then it also provides ansible dashboard, as I told you previously, to see a summary view of your entire ansible environment at any time.', 'start': 5743.758, 'duration': 7.188}, {'end': 5758.21, 'text': 'It also makes sure that the credentials are secured by securely encrypting secrets and delegating tasks without exposing them.', 'start': 5751.446, 'duration': 6.764}, {'end': 5764.714, 'text': 'It also helps in defining the custom credential types to be used with the inventory and playbooks with the dashboard.', 'start': 5758.691, 'duration': 6.023}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower offers secure task control, dashboard, and custom credential types for inventory and playbooks.', 'duration': 25.54, 'max_score': 5739.174, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr45739174.jpg'}, {'end': 5869.41, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5834.477, 'weight': 13, 'content': [{'end': 5836.397, 'text': 'So starting with the delegation category.', 'start': 5834.477, 'duration': 1.92}, {'end': 5843.519, 'text': 'delegation category offers the role-based access control by which you can easily delegate inventory credentials or playbooks to the users.', 'start': 5836.397, 'duration': 7.122}, {'end': 5846.379, 'text': 'It also offers push-button job runs,', 'start': 5844.159, 'duration': 2.22}, {'end': 5852.44, 'text': 'by which I mean that you can launch Ansible playbooks from the web UI and delegate playbook runs to the team members.', 'start': 5846.379, 'duration': 6.061}, {'end': 5860.422, 'text': 'It also offers a simple view for the delegated users and quickly builds forms to request job variables from Ansible Tower users.', 'start': 5852.84, 'duration': 7.582}, {'end': 5869.41, 'text': "So now again, let me tell you that the self-support Edition doesn't offer the quickly build forms to request job variables from Ansible Tower users,", 'start': 5861.062, 'duration': 8.348}], 'summary': 'Delegation category offers role-based access control, push-button job runs, and forms for requesting job variables.', 'duration': 34.933, 'max_score': 5834.477, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr45834477.jpg'}, {'end': 5903.162, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5872.993, 'weight': 14, 'content': [{'end': 5876.236, 'text': 'now moving on to the next category, that is, the support category,', 'start': 5872.993, 'duration': 3.243}, {'end': 5879.74, 'text': "where we're going to talk about the different kinds of support that the additions offer.", 'start': 5876.236, 'duration': 3.504}, {'end': 5885.425, 'text': "We'll start off with the installation support where you get up and running with the ansible and ansible tower.", 'start': 5880.36, 'duration': 5.065}, {'end': 5889.269, 'text': 'It also offers Enterprise support that is the 8 into 5 support.', 'start': 5885.785, 'duration': 3.484}, {'end': 5891.831, 'text': 'The premium support is 24 into 7.', 'start': 5889.609, 'duration': 2.222}, {'end': 5903.162, 'text': 'support and the ansible engine bundle is the support for ansible executable engine and the ansible engine bundle is the support for ansible executable engine and selected core modules and plugins.', 'start': 5891.831, 'duration': 11.331}], 'summary': 'The support category includes installation, enterprise, and premium support for ansible and ansible tower. it provides 8x5 and 24x7 support, as well as support for the ansible executable engine and selected core modules and plugins.', 'duration': 30.169, 'max_score': 5872.993, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr45872993.jpg'}, {'end': 6007.489, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5976.975, 'weight': 15, 'content': [{'end': 5982.038, 'text': 'The standard offers the identify support and also offers maintenance and upgrades access.', 'start': 5976.975, 'duration': 5.063}, {'end': 5989.381, 'text': 'Similarly, the premium Edition offers 24 into 7 support and also again offers maintenance and upgrade options.', 'start': 5982.598, 'duration': 6.783}, {'end': 5992.502, 'text': 'but the difference comes here in the standard Edition,', 'start': 5989.381, 'duration': 3.121}, {'end': 6000.146, 'text': 'the price of 200 nodes is $10,000 per year and for the premium Edition up to 100 nodes is $14,000 per year.', 'start': 5992.502, 'duration': 7.644}, {'end': 6007.489, 'text': 'But if you want more number of nodes over 100 nodes for both these editions then you have to contact to their official website,', 'start': 6000.586, 'duration': 6.903}], 'summary': 'Standard edition: $10,000/yr for 200 nodes. premium edition: $14,000/yr for up to 100 nodes, 24/7 support.', 'duration': 30.514, 'max_score': 5976.975, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr45976975.jpg'}], 'start': 4291.828, 'title': 'Ansible roles and deployment', 'summary': 'Covers deploying applications with ansible playbooks, organizing playbooks using ansible roles, and configuring mongodb and node.js roles. it also explains the directory structure of ansible roles and discusses ansible tower installation and features.', 'chapters': [{'end': 4596.275, 'start': 4291.828, 'title': 'Ansible roles: abstraction and reusability', 'summary': 'Covers the ease of deploying applications using ansible playbooks, the concept of ansible roles for organizing playbooks and their independent and reusable nature, along with the process of creating an ansible role using ansible-galaxy init command.', 'duration': 304.447, 'highlights': ['Ansible playbooks made it so easy to deploy applications, provision node machines, and orchestrate tasks. Ansible playbooks simplified the deployment process.', 'Ansible roles provide a level of abstraction for organizing playbooks and offer independent and reusable collections of variables, tasks, templates, files, and modules. Ansible roles enable the organization and reusability of playbook components.', 'Creating separate roles for different tasks simplifies playbook management and reduces the likelihood of errors. Creating separate roles simplifies playbook management and reduces errors.', 'Ansible roles are independent of each other, allowing for easy reuse and modification, reducing the need to rewrite code for similar tasks. The independence of Ansible roles allows for easy reuse and modification, reducing code rewriting.', 'The process of creating an Ansible role involves using the ansible-galaxy init command to initialize a new role. The process of creating an Ansible role involves initializing a new role using the ansible-galaxy init command.']}, {'end': 4881.372, 'start': 4596.796, 'title': 'Ansible role directory structure', 'summary': 'Explains the directory structure of an ansible role, including defaults, files, handlers, meta, tasks, templates, tests, and vars. it also demonstrates the hands-on process of creating and configuring roles for installing a mean stack application using ansible.', 'duration': 284.576, 'highlights': ['The directory structure of an Ansible role includes defaults, files, handlers, meta, tasks, templates, tests, and vars. It provides an overview of the directory structure components, offering a comprehensive understanding of the organization and purpose of each directory.', 'The hands-on demonstration involves creating three roles for installing prerequisites, MongoDB, and Node.js, and configuring each role by writing a YAML file for the tasks. It showcases the practical process of creating and configuring roles for installing a MEAN stack application, emphasizing the division of tasks into separate roles for specific components.', "The configuration process involves writing YAML files for each role, specifying tasks such as installing Git using the 'apt' module and updating the repository cache. It details the specific steps involved in configuring each role, such as writing YAML files to define tasks, including installing Git and updating the repository cache for the prerequisites role."]}, {'end': 5232.089, 'start': 4882.572, 'title': 'Configuring mongodb and node.js roles', 'summary': 'Discusses configuring mongodb and node.js roles, including tasks to import the mongodb public key, add the mongodb repository, install mongodb, start the service, get and set execution permission for the node.js script, execute and remove the installation script, install node.js and npm, and globally install bower and gulp.', 'duration': 349.517, 'highlights': ['Configuring MongoDB tasks The chapter explains the tasks to import the MongoDB public key, add the MongoDB repository, install MongoDB, and start the service, with the mention of specific modules used and parameters set for each task.', 'Configuring Node.js tasks The chapter outlines the tasks to get and set execution permission for the Node.js script, execute and remove the installation script, install Node.js and npm, and globally install Bower and gulp, with detailed explanation of the modules used and parameters set for each task.', 'Installation of MongoDB and Node.js packages The transcript details the installation of MongoDB and Node.js packages, including the specific parameters used for each package installation and the explanation of using the wet items parameter for installing Node.js.']}, {'end': 6000.146, 'start': 5233.25, 'title': 'Ansible tower: installation and tower features', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of installing a mean stack application using ansible rules, covering the creation of playbooks, playbook execution, and updating keys, along with the features and differences of ansible tower additions and pricing.', 'duration': 766.896, 'highlights': ['Ansible Tower offers ansible Tower dashboard to see a summary view of the entire ansible environment at any time, and also provides great support for auto scaling topologies. Dashboard for summary view, support for auto scaling topologies', 'Role-based access control allows easy control of who runs what task and on what inventory, and ansible Tower securely encrypts secrets and delegates tasks without exposing them. Role-based access control, secure encryption of secrets', 'Delegation category offers role-based access control and push-button job runs, allowing launch of Ansible playbooks from the web UI and delegation of playbook runs to team members. Role-based access control, push-button job runs', 'Standard Edition offers identify support and maintenance and upgrades access, while the Premium Edition offers 24/7 support and maintenance and upgrade options. Identify support, 24/7 support', 'The Standard Edition price for 200 nodes is $10,000 per year, whereas the Premium Edition price for up to 100 nodes is $14,000 per year. Standard Edition: 200 nodes for $10,000/year, Premium Edition: up to 100 nodes for $14,000/year']}], 'duration': 1708.318, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr44291828.jpg', 'highlights': ['Ansible playbooks simplified the deployment process.', 'Ansible roles enable the organization and reusability of playbook components.', 'Creating separate roles simplifies playbook management and reduces errors.', 'The independence of Ansible roles allows for easy reuse and modification, reducing code rewriting.', 'The process of creating an Ansible role involves initializing a new role using the ansible-galaxy init command.', 'The directory structure components offer a comprehensive understanding of the organization and purpose of each directory.', 'It showcases the practical process of creating and configuring roles for installing a MEAN stack application.', 'It details the specific steps involved in configuring each role, such as writing YAML files to define tasks.', 'The chapter explains the tasks to import the MongoDB public key, add the MongoDB repository, install MongoDB, and start the service.', 'The chapter outlines the tasks to get and set execution permission for the Node.js script, execute and remove the installation script, install Node.js and npm, and globally install Bower and gulp.', 'The transcript details the installation of MongoDB and Node.js packages, including the specific parameters used for each package installation.', 'Dashboard for summary view, support for auto scaling topologies', 'Role-based access control, secure encryption of secrets', 'Role-based access control, push-button job runs', 'Identify support, 24/7 support', 'Standard Edition: 200 nodes for $10,000/year, Premium Edition: up to 100 nodes for $14,000/year']}, {'end': 7102.38, 'segs': [{'end': 6024.58, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6000.586, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 6007.489, 'text': 'But if you want more number of nodes over 100 nodes for both these editions then you have to contact to their official website,', 'start': 6000.586, 'duration': 6.903}, {'end': 6009.57, 'text': "where they'll let you know the pricing based on your need.", 'start': 6007.489, 'duration': 2.081}, {'end': 6016.775, 'text': 'So guys that was the difference between the tower pricing for the Standard Edition and the Premium Edition now moving on to the tower features.', 'start': 6010.05, 'duration': 6.725}, {'end': 6024.58, 'text': 'Well, the tower features are almost the same that the parameters I was just talking about in Tower Editions, but yet let me discuss about them again.', 'start': 6017.215, 'duration': 7.365}], 'summary': 'Tower standard and premium editions offer up to 100 nodes; contact for more', 'duration': 23.994, 'max_score': 6000.586, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr46000586.jpg'}, {'end': 6061.176, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6037.362, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 6045.564, 'text': "you'll see a host and inventory status and all the recent job activity and a snapshot of recent job runs that I'll show you when I open my dashboard,", 'start': 6037.362, 'duration': 8.202}, {'end': 6050.565, 'text': 'so you can adjust your job status settings to a graph data from a specific job and time ranges.', 'start': 6045.564, 'duration': 5.001}, {'end': 6058.033, 'text': 'Moving on to the next feature that is a real-time job updates within the Ansible Tower playbooks run stream by in real time.', 'start': 6051.125, 'duration': 6.908}, {'end': 6061.176, 'text': 'So as Ansible automates across your infrastructure.', 'start': 6058.393, 'duration': 2.783}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower dashboard provides host and job activity snapshots, allowing real-time job updates.', 'duration': 23.814, 'max_score': 6037.362, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr46037362.jpg'}, {'end': 6100.611, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6076.915, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6084.04, 'text': 'Ansible Towers multiple playbook workflows chain any number of playbooks, regardless of whether they use different inventories,', 'start': 6076.915, 'duration': 7.125}, {'end': 6087.482, 'text': 'run as different users or run at once and utilize credentials.', 'start': 6084.04, 'duration': 3.442}, {'end': 6095.047, 'text': 'So Ansible Tower workflows allow for many complex operation, so you can build a provisioning workflow that provisions machines,', 'start': 6087.882, 'duration': 7.165}, {'end': 6100.611, 'text': 'applies a base configuration and deploy an application, all with different playbooks maintained by the different teams.', 'start': 6095.047, 'duration': 5.564}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower enables chaining multiple playbooks to perform complex operations and provisioning workflows involving different teams.', 'duration': 23.696, 'max_score': 6076.915, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr46076915.jpg'}, {'end': 6187.161, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6146.736, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 6160.789, 'text': 'by which I mean that you know you can connect multiple ansible tower nodes into a single ansible tower cluster and the ansible tower clusters at redundancy and capacity which allow you to scale ansible automation across your complete Enterprise.', 'start': 6146.736, 'duration': 14.053}, {'end': 6166.75, 'text': 'After this let me also mention that you have a feature that is integrated notifications.', 'start': 6161.727, 'duration': 5.023}, {'end': 6172.973, 'text': 'So with this, you can stay informed of your automation statuses via integrated notifications,', 'start': 6167.27, 'duration': 5.703}, {'end': 6179.177, 'text': 'and then you can notify a person or a team when their job is succeeded, or even escalated when their job fails.', 'start': 6172.973, 'duration': 6.204}, {'end': 6187.161, 'text': 'So basically this allows you to send notifications across your entire organization at once or also be customized on a per job basis.', 'start': 6179.557, 'duration': 7.604}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower allows clustering for redundancy and capacity, enabling scaled automation. integrated notifications inform about job statuses and can be customized.', 'duration': 40.425, 'max_score': 6146.736, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr46146736.jpg'}, {'end': 6237.629, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6208.468, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 6212.432, 'text': 'Ansible Tower also lets you launch playbooks with just a single click.', 'start': 6208.468, 'duration': 3.964}, {'end': 6219.8, 'text': 'it can prompt you for variables that you choose from the available secure credentials and also monitor the resulting deployments.', 'start': 6212.432, 'duration': 7.368}, {'end': 6222.022, 'text': 'So with Ansible Tower.', 'start': 6220.34, 'duration': 1.682}, {'end': 6230.711, 'text': 'delegation developers or the QA departments can provision their own dev and test environments and customer service agents can provision a new demo environment.', 'start': 6222.022, 'duration': 8.689}, {'end': 6233.047, 'text': 'Putting all these features on a side.', 'start': 6231.266, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 6237.629, 'text': 'Let me tell you that Ansible Tower is not just limited to the user interface,', 'start': 6233.307, 'duration': 4.322}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower enables one-click playbook launch and self-service environment provisioning for developers, qa departments, and customer service agents.', 'duration': 29.161, 'max_score': 6208.468, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr46208468.jpg'}, {'end': 6572.058, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6543.685, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 6551.089, 'text': 'So in short, you can just understand that you know, the job templates increase reusing ansible playbook content and collaboration between teams.', 'start': 6543.685, 'duration': 7.404}, {'end': 6554.231, 'text': 'So now let me just show you how to create a job template.', 'start': 6551.449, 'duration': 2.782}, {'end': 6561.171, 'text': 'So, to create a job template, you just have to go to the templates tab and then, as you can see on the screen,', 'start': 6554.871, 'duration': 6.3}, {'end': 6563.594, 'text': "there's already a demo job template available.", 'start': 6561.171, 'duration': 2.423}, {'end': 6572.058, 'text': 'So if you want to add a new template you just click on this add option over here you choose job template and then you mentioned the details.', 'start': 6563.874, 'duration': 8.184}], 'summary': 'Job templates increase reusing ansible playbook content and collaboration between teams.', 'duration': 28.373, 'max_score': 6543.685, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr46543685.jpg'}, {'end': 6733.019, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6707.381, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 6713.806, 'text': 'So well, let me tell you that the inventories can be named and set up to match your organization and how you have divided your systems.', 'start': 6707.381, 'duration': 6.425}, {'end': 6716.308, 'text': 'I have three inventories over here.', 'start': 6714.426, 'duration': 1.882}, {'end': 6722.753, 'text': 'Each inventory is basically a simple collection of host, the same as the ansible inventory file on the command line,', 'start': 6716.708, 'duration': 6.045}, {'end': 6728.257, 'text': 'and you can group host underneath the inventories in any way that makes sense for you and your organization.', 'start': 6722.753, 'duration': 5.504}, {'end': 6733.019, 'text': 'So suppose, if I have to open this inventory, You can see the details of the inventory right?', 'start': 6728.637, 'duration': 4.382}], 'summary': "Inventories can be customized to match organization's structure. three inventories available, each a collection of hosts.", 'duration': 25.638, 'max_score': 6707.381, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr46707381.jpg'}, {'end': 7078.159, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7052.221, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 7059.666, 'text': 'So the jobs tab is basically where you come to know what job is running, when and where, and you can keep a track of all these jobs which have failed,', 'start': 7052.221, 'duration': 7.445}, {'end': 7061.627, 'text': "which haven't failed, and so on.", 'start': 7059.666, 'duration': 1.961}, {'end': 7064.109, 'text': 'so, guys, that was a short session on ansible Tower.', 'start': 7061.627, 'duration': 2.482}, {'end': 7067.311, 'text': 'Well, this was just the basic way, you know, you can explore stuff.', 'start': 7064.449, 'duration': 2.862}, {'end': 7073.296, 'text': 'Let me tell you that, based on your need, you can have n number of inventories and number of projects connecting them,', 'start': 7067.551, 'duration': 5.745}, {'end': 7078.159, 'text': 'connecting to people who are using the same Tower but have to work on different inventories of projects.', 'start': 7073.296, 'duration': 4.863}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower provides job tracking and supports multiple inventories and projects.', 'duration': 25.938, 'max_score': 7052.221, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47052221.jpg'}, {'end': 7112.463, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7084.124, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 7089.308, 'text': 'So for that you have to go to the settings tab and over here you can see the option to view your license.', 'start': 7084.124, 'duration': 5.184}, {'end': 7090.989, 'text': 'So you just have to click on that.', 'start': 7089.748, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 7097.719, 'text': 'So when you open this tab, you can see your license, where you know you get all the information about your license, like the license key,', 'start': 7091.678, 'duration': 6.041}, {'end': 7102.38, 'text': 'the time remaining, the host that you presently using, how many hosts are available, and so on.', 'start': 7097.719, 'duration': 4.661}, {'end': 7105.621, 'text': 'So, guys, this was all about the Ansible Tower.', 'start': 7103.021, 'duration': 2.6}, {'end': 7112.463, 'text': 'the more you explore, the more you will know how good Ansible Tower is and how it helps us to do all the jobs without using the Ansible CLI.', 'start': 7105.621, 'duration': 6.842}], 'summary': 'Access license details in settings, including key, time remaining, and host information for ansible tower.', 'duration': 28.339, 'max_score': 7084.124, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47084124.jpg'}], 'start': 6000.586, 'title': 'Ansible tower', 'summary': "Compares the standard and premium editions of ansible tower, highlighting pricing differences and features such as ansible dashboard, real-time job updates, multiple playbook workflows, and auditing capabilities. it also introduces ansible tower's features like cluster scalability, integrated notifications, scheduling of jobs, inventory management, rest api, and remote command execution, demonstrating the dashboard and team collaboration capabilities. additionally, it explains how to utilize job templates in ansible tower to streamline playbook deployment, covering configuration steps for creating job templates, permissions, inventories, projects, and user access, emphasizing flexibility and control.", 'chapters': [{'end': 6146.736, 'start': 6000.586, 'title': 'Ansible tower editions comparison', 'summary': "Compares the standard and premium editions of ansible tower, highlighting the differences in pricing and features. it also emphasizes the benefits of ansible tower's features, such as ansible dashboard, real-time job updates, multiple playbook workflows, and auditing capabilities.", 'duration': 146.15, 'highlights': ['The chapter compares the Standard and Premium Editions of Ansible Tower, highlighting the differences in pricing and features.', 'Ansible Tower dashboard provides a heads-up NOC style display for everything going on in your Ansible environment, including host and inventory status, recent job activity, and job runs.', 'Real-time job updates within the Ansible Tower playbooks run stream by in real time, allowing visibility into plays and tasks completion, success or failure, and output.', "Ansible Tower's multiple playbook workflows enable chaining any number of playbooks, regardless of different inventories or users, and allow for complex operations like provisioning, configuration, deployment, and CI/CD testing.", "Ansible Tower provides auditing capabilities, securely storing and making available all automation activities, including details on job execution, customization, and results, as well as the ability to export them to the Ansible Tower's API.", 'If you want more than 100 nodes for both Standard and Premium Editions, you need to contact their official website for pricing based on your needs.']}, {'end': 6503.144, 'start': 6146.736, 'title': 'Ansible tower: features & functionality', 'summary': 'Introduces ansible tower, highlighting its features such as cluster scalability, integrated notifications, scheduling of jobs, inventory management, rest api, and remote command execution, as well as demonstrating the dashboard and team collaboration capabilities.', 'duration': 356.408, 'highlights': ['Cluster Scalability and Redundancy Ansible Tower allows the connection of multiple nodes into a single cluster, providing redundancy and capacity to scale automation across the enterprise.', 'Integrated Notifications Integrated notifications enable real-time status updates and customized notifications for job success or failure, facilitating organization-wide communication.', 'Scheduling and Inventory Management Users can schedule Ansible jobs, control playbook runs, manage inventories from cloud providers, and launch playbooks with a single click.', 'REST API and Remote Command Execution Every feature of Ansible Tower is accessible via the REST API, allowing integration with system management infrastructure, and remote command execution enables quick task execution and user management.', 'Dashboard and Team Collaboration The dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of host and job statuses, while team collaboration is facilitated through a permission system to manage access and grant specific permissions to users and teams.']}, {'end': 7102.38, 'start': 6504.159, 'title': 'Ansible tower: job templates and configurations', 'summary': 'Explains how to utilize job templates in ansible tower to streamline the deployment of ansible playbooks, enabling easy collaboration between teams and increasing reusability. it also covers the configuration steps for creating job templates, permissions, inventories, projects, and user access, highlighting the flexibility and control offered by ansible tower.', 'duration': 598.221, 'highlights': ['Creating job templates in Ansible Tower allows for easy collaboration and understanding of ansible playbook content, increasing reusability and enabling personnel unfamiliar with the playbook to comprehend the job template. Job templates store parameters for ansible playbooks, making it easy to mention variables, options, and settings, allowing for increased collaboration and reusability.', 'Configuring job templates in Ansible Tower enables the reuse of the same playbook with different parameters and inventories, facilitating efficient deployment and collaboration between teams. Different job templates can reuse the exact same playbook with different parameters passed in various ways, enhancing collaboration and deployment efficiency.', 'The process of creating job templates involves specifying details such as name, description, job type, inventory selection, playbook, and credentials, providing comprehensive control over playbook execution and access to inventories. Creating a job template involves specifying details such as name, description, job type, inventory selection, playbook, and credentials, allowing comprehensive control over playbook execution and inventory access.', 'Inventories in Ansible Tower allow the organization and grouping of hosts, providing flexibility in structuring systems and enabling easy management of host groups. Inventories in Ansible Tower enable the organization and grouping of hosts, providing flexibility in structuring systems and facilitating easy management of host groups.', 'The process of adding inventories involves specifying details such as name, description, and required credentials, granting permissions for user access, and enabling the addition of groups, hosts, sources, and completed jobs. Adding inventories involves specifying details such as name, description, and required credentials, granting permissions for user access, and enabling the addition of groups, hosts, sources, and completed jobs.', 'The configuration settings in Ansible Tower allow for the allocation of permissions for user access to projects and inventories, providing granular control over user capabilities and access. Configuration settings in Ansible Tower allow for the allocation of permissions for user access to projects and inventories, providing granular control over user capabilities and access.', 'The management of projects in Ansible Tower involves specifying configuration details, permissions for user access, and initiating SCM updates, facilitating seamless integration with external repositories and user access control. Managing projects in Ansible Tower involves specifying configuration details, permissions for user access, and initiating SCM updates, facilitating seamless integration with external repositories and user access control.', 'The jobs tab in Ansible Tower provides comprehensive tracking and management of job executions, allowing users to monitor job status, duration, and output details, enabling effective job management and monitoring. The jobs tab in Ansible Tower provides comprehensive tracking and management of job executions, allowing users to monitor job status, duration, and output details, enabling effective job management and monitoring.', 'Ansible Tower offers flexibility and control through the creation of multiple inventories, projects, and user access, empowering users to tailor the platform to their specific requirements and enabling seamless collaboration across different teams and projects. Ansible Tower offers flexibility and control through the creation of multiple inventories, projects, and user access, empowering users to tailor the platform to their specific requirements and enabling seamless collaboration across different teams and projects.', 'The settings tab in Ansible Tower provides access to view the license details, offering information about the license key, remaining time, and available hosts, ensuring transparent management of license information. The settings tab in Ansible Tower provides access to view the license details, offering information about the license key, remaining time, and available hosts, ensuring transparent management of license information.']}], 'duration': 1101.794, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr46000586.jpg', 'highlights': ["Ansible Tower's multiple playbook workflows enable chaining any number of playbooks, regardless of different inventories or users, and allow for complex operations like provisioning, configuration, deployment, and CI/CD testing.", 'Real-time job updates within the Ansible Tower playbooks run stream by in real time, allowing visibility into plays and tasks completion, success or failure, and output.', 'The chapter compares the Standard and Premium Editions of Ansible Tower, highlighting the differences in pricing and features.', 'Cluster Scalability and Redundancy Ansible Tower allows the connection of multiple nodes into a single cluster, providing redundancy and capacity to scale automation across the enterprise.', 'Integrated Notifications enable real-time status updates and customized notifications for job success or failure, facilitating organization-wide communication.', 'Creating job templates in Ansible Tower allows for easy collaboration and understanding of ansible playbook content, increasing reusability and enabling personnel unfamiliar with the playbook to comprehend the job template.', 'Inventories in Ansible Tower enable the organization and grouping of hosts, providing flexibility in structuring systems and facilitating easy management of host groups.', 'The jobs tab in Ansible Tower provides comprehensive tracking and management of job executions, allowing users to monitor job status, duration, and output details, enabling effective job management and monitoring.', 'Ansible Tower offers flexibility and control through the creation of multiple inventories, projects, and user access, empowering users to tailor the platform to their specific requirements and enabling seamless collaboration across different teams and projects.', 'The settings tab in Ansible Tower provides access to view the license details, offering information about the license key, remaining time, and available hosts, ensuring transparent management of license information.']}, {'end': 8505.213, 'segs': [{'end': 7168.643, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7128.97, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 7135.232, 'text': 'So continuous integration is a software development practice where members of our team integrate their work frequently.', 'start': 7128.97, 'duration': 6.262}, {'end': 7141.035, 'text': 'Usually each person integrates at least daily leading to multiple integrations per day.', 'start': 7135.713, 'duration': 5.322}, {'end': 7149.358, 'text': 'Each integration is verified by an automated build that includes the test to detect integration errors as quickly as possible.', 'start': 7141.576, 'duration': 7.782}, {'end': 7157.8, 'text': 'many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.', 'start': 7149.358, 'duration': 8.442}, {'end': 7160.441, 'text': 'So this was the definition of continuous integration.', 'start': 7158.261, 'duration': 2.18}, {'end': 7163.082, 'text': 'Now, if you talk about the continuous delivery,', 'start': 7160.941, 'duration': 2.141}, {'end': 7168.643, 'text': 'it is a process where you build software in such a way that it can be released to production at any time.', 'start': 7163.082, 'duration': 5.561}], 'summary': 'Continuous integration: frequent integrations, daily per person, leading to reduced errors. continuous delivery: software built for production release at any time.', 'duration': 39.673, 'max_score': 7128.97, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47128970.jpg'}, {'end': 7233.95, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7209.317, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 7218.139, 'text': 'configuration management is the practice of handling updates and changes systematically so that a system maintains its Integrity over time.', 'start': 7209.317, 'duration': 8.822}, {'end': 7228.702, 'text': 'configuration management keeps a track of all the updates that are needed in a system and it ensures that the current design and build state of the system is up to date and functioning correctly.', 'start': 7218.139, 'duration': 10.563}, {'end': 7233.95, 'text': 'so you can refer to the diagram that is present on your screen right now.', 'start': 7229.326, 'duration': 4.624}], 'summary': 'Configuration management ensures system integrity by tracking and updating changes.', 'duration': 24.633, 'max_score': 7209.317, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47209317.jpg'}, {'end': 7364.507, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7333.292, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 7335.472, 'text': 'The second point here is the agentless.', 'start': 7333.292, 'duration': 2.18}, {'end': 7343.272, 'text': 'no agents or software or additional firewall ports are needed to install on the client systems or the host which you want to automate.', 'start': 7335.472, 'duration': 7.8}, {'end': 7346.695, 'text': 'the third feature is the powerfulness and the flexibility.', 'start': 7343.272, 'duration': 3.423}, {'end': 7353.459, 'text': "ansible's capabilities allow you to orchestrate the entire application environment, regardless of where it is deployed.", 'start': 7346.695, 'duration': 6.764}, {'end': 7356.501, 'text': 'and the fourth feature of ansible is the efficiency.', 'start': 7353.459, 'duration': 3.042}, {'end': 7360.504, 'text': 'ansible introduces modules as basic building blocks for your software.', 'start': 7356.501, 'duration': 4.003}, {'end': 7364.507, 'text': 'So you can even customize it as per your own requirements.', 'start': 7360.984, 'duration': 3.523}], 'summary': 'Ansible requires no agents or additional firewall ports, provides powerful and flexible orchestration capabilities, and introduces efficient modules for customization.', 'duration': 31.215, 'max_score': 7333.292, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47333292.jpg'}, {'end': 7422.263, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7397.747, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 7403.431, 'text': 'ansible deploys modules on the node systems by running the playbook on the controlling machine.', 'start': 7397.747, 'duration': 5.684}, {'end': 7404.672, 'text': 'ansible is agent list.', 'start': 7403.431, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 7411.357, 'text': 'This means that there is no need to have a third party tool to make a connection between one node and the other.', 'start': 7405.112, 'duration': 6.245}, {'end': 7413.878, 'text': 'so this was the overall working of ansible.', 'start': 7411.357, 'duration': 2.521}, {'end': 7422.263, 'text': 'The next question here is how is ansible different from puppet? So now we will compare ansible and puppet based upon a few parameters.', 'start': 7414.719, 'duration': 7.544}], 'summary': 'Ansible deploys modules on nodes, no third-party tool needed. comparing ansible and puppet based on parameters.', 'duration': 24.516, 'max_score': 7397.747, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47397747.jpg'}, {'end': 7527.558, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7500.691, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 7504.934, 'text': 'So the main component of ansible is the ansible automation engine.', 'start': 7500.691, 'duration': 4.243}, {'end': 7509.398, 'text': 'this engine directly interacts with various cloud services, configuration management,', 'start': 7504.934, 'duration': 4.464}, {'end': 7515.262, 'text': 'database and different users who write various playbooks to execute the ansible automation engine.', 'start': 7509.398, 'duration': 5.864}, {'end': 7518.297, 'text': 'So now let us talk about the components one by one.', 'start': 7515.816, 'duration': 2.481}, {'end': 7520.417, 'text': 'So the first component is the inventory.', 'start': 7518.677, 'duration': 1.74}, {'end': 7527.558, 'text': 'These are a list of notes containing their respective IP addresses servers databases that need to be managed.', 'start': 7520.957, 'duration': 6.601}], 'summary': 'Ansible automation engine manages inventory with ip addresses and servers.', 'duration': 26.867, 'max_score': 7500.691, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47500691.jpg'}, {'end': 7571.322, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7545.655, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 7550.796, 'text': 'Ansible provides around 450 modules that automate nearly every part of your environment.', 'start': 7545.655, 'duration': 5.141}, {'end': 7559.159, 'text': 'The next component here is the plugins if you want to execute Ansible tasks as job then Ansible plugins can be used for this purpose.', 'start': 7551.517, 'duration': 7.642}, {'end': 7568.741, 'text': 'They simplify the execution of a task by building a job like an environment that basically contains pieces of code corresponding to some specific functionality.', 'start': 7559.679, 'duration': 9.062}, {'end': 7571.322, 'text': 'There are hundreds of plugins provided by Ansible.', 'start': 7569.281, 'duration': 2.041}], 'summary': 'Ansible offers 450+ modules and hundreds of plugins for automating environment tasks.', 'duration': 25.667, 'max_score': 7545.655, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47545655.jpg'}, {'end': 7797.523, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7765.753, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 7770.438, 'text': 'So the controller machine is responsible for provisioning the servers that are being managed.', 'start': 7765.753, 'duration': 4.685}, {'end': 7773.06, 'text': 'It is the machine where ansible is installed.', 'start': 7770.838, 'duration': 2.222}, {'end': 7780.58, 'text': "So now if you talk about the inventory and inventory is an initialization file that has details about different servers that you're managing.", 'start': 7773.479, 'duration': 7.101}, {'end': 7782.721, 'text': 'So the next term here is the playbook.', 'start': 7781.18, 'duration': 1.541}, {'end': 7791.042, 'text': 'It is a code written in yaml format a playbook basically contains the tasks that need to be executed or automated.', 'start': 7783.161, 'duration': 7.881}, {'end': 7797.523, 'text': 'So the next term is task each task represents a single procedure that needs to be executed.', 'start': 7791.722, 'duration': 5.801}], 'summary': 'The controller machine provisions servers, manages inventory, and executes tasks via playbooks in yaml format.', 'duration': 31.77, 'max_score': 7765.753, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47765753.jpg'}, {'end': 7906.801, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7875.838, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 7877.938, 'text': 'but with infrastructure as a code,', 'start': 7875.838, 'duration': 2.1}, {'end': 7888.972, 'text': 'all the configuration details are managed and stored in a standardized file system wherein the system automatically manages infrastructure changes and deals with the system configurations.', 'start': 7877.938, 'duration': 11.034}, {'end': 7897.817, 'text': 'Therefore we do not require most of the manual effort since everything is managed and automated by following the IAC approach.', 'start': 7889.512, 'duration': 8.305}, {'end': 7906.801, 'text': 'Therefore, we do not require most of the manual effort, since everything is managed and automated by following the IAC approach.', 'start': 7898.457, 'duration': 8.344}], 'summary': 'Infrastructure as code automates configuration, reducing manual effort.', 'duration': 30.963, 'max_score': 7875.838, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47875838.jpg'}, {'end': 8065.08, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7999.646, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 8006.112, 'text': 'it can also be used to build new roles, remove existing ones and perform tasks on Galaxy website.', 'start': 7999.646, 'duration': 6.466}, {'end': 8012.26, 'text': 'So as you can see on the screen this command ansible Galaxy installed username dot role name.', 'start': 8007.076, 'duration': 5.184}, {'end': 8016.904, 'text': 'So this command can be used to download roles from the Galaxy website.', 'start': 8013.161, 'duration': 3.743}, {'end': 8021.889, 'text': 'The next question here is what are ad hoc commands and give an example.', 'start': 8018.245, 'duration': 3.644}, {'end': 8026.973, 'text': 'So ad hoc commands are simple one-line commands that are used to perform a certain task.', 'start': 8022.469, 'duration': 4.504}, {'end': 8030.936, 'text': 'You can think of ad hoc commands as an alternative to writing playbooks.', 'start': 8027.413, 'duration': 3.523}, {'end': 8038.614, 'text': 'So if you talk about the example, so this is the example that you can give So this is the command that you can see on the screen right now.', 'start': 8031.597, 'duration': 7.017}, {'end': 8043.217, 'text': 'So this command accesses the next killer module to disable the server.', 'start': 8039.095, 'duration': 4.122}, {'end': 8047.699, 'text': 'So this was very simple example of a dog command that can be used in Ansible.', 'start': 8043.617, 'duration': 4.082}, {'end': 8051.821, 'text': 'The next question here is what are variables in Ansible?', 'start': 8048.72, 'duration': 3.101}, {'end': 8057.805, 'text': 'variables in Ansible are very similar to variables in any programming language, just like any other variable,', 'start': 8051.821, 'duration': 5.984}, {'end': 8062.087, 'text': 'and Ansible variable is assigned a value which is used in computing playbooks.', 'start': 8057.805, 'duration': 4.282}, {'end': 8065.08, 'text': 'You can also use conditions around the variables.', 'start': 8062.679, 'duration': 2.401}], 'summary': 'Ansible allows managing roles, ad hoc commands, and variables for efficient task performance.', 'duration': 65.434, 'max_score': 7999.646, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47999646.jpg'}, {'end': 8187.381, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8152.752, 'weight': 12, 'content': [{'end': 8155.353, 'text': 'So there are basically two types of modules in Ansible.', 'start': 8152.752, 'duration': 2.601}, {'end': 8159.174, 'text': 'The first one is the core module and the second one is the extra module.', 'start': 8155.713, 'duration': 3.461}, {'end': 8167.135, 'text': 'So if you talk about the core modules, these are the modules that the core Ansible team maintains and will always ship with Ansible itself.', 'start': 8159.834, 'duration': 7.301}, {'end': 8173.959, 'text': 'They will also receive a slightly higher priority for all requests than those in the extra repositories.', 'start': 8167.715, 'duration': 6.244}, {'end': 8179.84, 'text': 'The source of these modules is hosted by ansible on GitHub in the ansible module score.', 'start': 8174.559, 'duration': 5.281}, {'end': 8187.381, 'text': 'And if you talk about the extras modules, these modules are currently shipped with ansible but might be shipped separately in the future.', 'start': 8180.56, 'duration': 6.821}], 'summary': 'Ansible has core and extra modules; core modules are maintained by the ansible team and receive higher priority, while extra modules might be shipped separately in the future.', 'duration': 34.629, 'max_score': 8152.752, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr48152752.jpg'}, {'end': 8247.245, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8221.923, 'weight': 13, 'content': [{'end': 8229.44, 'text': 'For example, if you wish to install a package or update a software, You can use the code such as install space, package name,', 'start': 8221.923, 'duration': 7.517}, {'end': 8232.161, 'text': 'comma update and the name of the software.', 'start': 8229.44, 'duration': 2.721}, {'end': 8239.704, 'text': 'The next question here is what are playbooks in ansible and if possible give some examples in such questions.', 'start': 8233.382, 'duration': 6.322}, {'end': 8243.625, 'text': 'So playbooks in ansible are written in the yaml format.', 'start': 8240.284, 'duration': 3.341}, {'end': 8247.245, 'text': 'It is a human readable data serialization language.', 'start': 8244.165, 'duration': 3.08}], 'summary': 'Ansible playbooks are written in yaml format for easy human readability and data serialization.', 'duration': 25.322, 'max_score': 8221.923, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr48221923.jpg'}, {'end': 8488.972, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8463.632, 'weight': 14, 'content': [{'end': 8468.893, 'text': 'So in this command, we are basically accessing the host name of the first machine in the web servers group.', 'start': 8463.632, 'duration': 5.261}, {'end': 8475.935, 'text': 'If you are using a template to do this then use a ginger tool or you can also use set fact.', 'start': 8469.573, 'duration': 6.362}, {'end': 8480.384, 'text': 'The next question here is Why is this notation used?', 'start': 8477.075, 'duration': 3.309}, {'end': 8488.972, 'text': 'as you can see on the screen, this two curly braces? Okay, opening and closing, and how can one interpolate variables or dynamic variable names?', 'start': 8480.384, 'duration': 8.588}], 'summary': 'Accessing hostname of first machine in web servers group using command and tools.', 'duration': 25.34, 'max_score': 8463.632, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr48463632.jpg'}], 'start': 7103.021, 'title': 'Ansible and infrastructure automation', 'summary': "Provides an overview of ansible tower, ci/cd, and configuration management, illustrates ansible's usage through a real-world example, discusses infrastructure as code, and explains ansible modules with practical examples.", 'chapters': [{'end': 7250.544, 'start': 7103.021, 'title': 'Ansible tower overview and ci/cd workflow', 'summary': 'Provides an overview of ansible tower and explains the concepts of ci/cd, emphasizing the benefits of continuous integration and continuous delivery, and the importance of configuration management in maintaining system integrity and overcoming challenges in implementing changes.', 'duration': 147.523, 'highlights': ['Continuous integration is a software development practice where team members integrate their work frequently, leading to reduced integration problems and more rapid software development. Continuous integration involves team members integrating their work frequently, leading to reduced integration problems and faster software development.', 'Continuous delivery involves building software in a way that allows it to be released to production at any time, with an automated build script detecting changes and deploying the source code to a dedicated build server. Continuous delivery enables the release of software to production at any time, with automated build script detecting changes and deploying source code to a dedicated build server.', 'Configuration management is the practice of handling updates and changes systematically to ensure that a system maintains its integrity over time, helping organizations in overcoming challenges related to implementing changes based on user requirements. Configuration management involves systematically handling updates and changes to maintain system integrity and overcome challenges in implementing changes based on user requirements.']}, {'end': 7852.321, 'start': 7250.544, 'title': 'Ansible: configuration management and deployment', 'summary': 'Illustrates the importance of configuration management using ansible through a real-world example, highlighting its features, working, comparison with puppet, architecture, and basic terminologies.', 'duration': 601.777, 'highlights': ['The New York Stock Exchange encountered a glitch in the software which prevented them from trading stocks for approximately 90 minutes. The New York Stock Exchange faced a 90-minute trading halt due to software glitch.', 'Ansible aims to provide large productivity gains and offers simplicity, agentless operation, powerfulness, flexibility, and efficiency. Ansible offers simplicity, agentless operation, powerfulness, flexibility, and efficiency for automation challenges.', 'Ansible is an open-source IT configuration management deployment and orchestration tool with over 450 modules for automation. Ansible, an open-source tool, offers over 450 modules for IT configuration management and orchestration.', 'Ansible is categorized into controlling machines and nodes, and it deploys modules on the node systems through SSH. Ansible is categorized into controlling machines and nodes, deploying modules through SSH.', 'Ansible and Puppet are compared based on availability, ease of setup, management, scalability, configuration language, interoperability, and pricing of nodes. Comparison of Ansible and Puppet based on availability, ease of setup, management, scalability, configuration language, interoperability, and pricing.', 'The main components of the Ansible architecture include the inventory, API, modules, plugins, networking, hosts, playbooks, CMDB, and cloud. The main components of Ansible architecture encompass inventory, API, modules, plugins, networking, hosts, playbooks, CMDB, and cloud.', 'Ansible requires a controlling machine with nodes, inventory, and playbook for provisioning and managing servers. Ansible server requirements include a controlling machine with nodes, inventory, and playbook for server provisioning.', 'The installation of Ansible on CentOS involves setting up an EPEL repository and installing the Ansible software using specific commands. The installation of Ansible on CentOS entails setting up an EPEL repository and installing the software using specific commands.', 'Basic terminologies in Ansible include controller machine, inventory, playbook, task, module, role, play, facts, and handlers. Basic terminologies in Ansible encompass controller machine, inventory, playbook, task, module, role, play, facts, and handlers.']}, {'end': 8128.225, 'start': 7853.274, 'title': 'Infrastructure as code and ansible comparison', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of infrastructure as code, highlighting its benefits in automating infrastructure management and the comparison between ansible and chef in terms of availability, ease of setup, management, scalability, and pricing.', 'duration': 274.951, 'highlights': ['Infrastructure as Code automates infrastructure management and system configurations, reducing the need for manual effort and enabling changes to be managed and stored in a standardized file system. Infrastructure as Code streamlines infrastructure management, reducing manual effort, and enabling changes to be stored in a standardized file system.', 'Comparing Ansible and Chef based on availability, ease of setup, management, scalability, configuration language, interoperability, and pricing. A comparison between Ansible and Chef in terms of availability, ease of setup, management, scalability, configuration language, interoperability, and pricing.', 'Ansible Galaxy is a platform for sharing Ansible roles and modules, offering the capability to download, build, remove, and perform tasks on the Galaxy website. Ansible Galaxy provides a platform for sharing roles and modules, allowing users to download, build, remove, and perform tasks on the Galaxy website.', "Ad hoc commands are simple one-line commands used as an alternative to writing playbooks, enabling specific tasks such as disabling a server using the 'nexctl' module. Ad hoc commands serve as one-line alternatives to playbooks, facilitating specific tasks like disabling a server using the 'nexctl' module.", 'Variables in Ansible function similarly to programming language variables, allowing assignment of values used in playbooks and the use of conditions around the variables. Ansible variables function akin to programming language variables, enabling value assignment in playbooks and the application of conditions.', 'Differentiating between variable names and environment variables in Ansible, with variable names created by adding strings and environment variables accessed through existing variables. Variable names in Ansible are created by adding strings, while environment variables are accessed through existing variables.']}, {'end': 8505.213, 'start': 8129.125, 'title': 'Ansible modules and playbooks', 'summary': 'Explains ansible modules, including core and extra modules, and ansible playbooks in yaml format, highlighting the process of writing a simple playbook to install nginx, and accessing variables in ansible.', 'duration': 376.088, 'highlights': ['Ansible modules are small programs used to automate tasks, including core modules maintained by the Ansible team and extra modules maintained by the community. Ansible modules are small programs used to automate tasks, with core modules maintained by the Ansible team and extra modules maintained by the community.', 'Playbooks in Ansible are written in YAML format and used for configuration files, including the process of writing a simple playbook to install nginx. Playbooks in Ansible are written in YAML format and used for configuration files, with details on writing a simple playbook to install nginx.', 'The process of writing a simple playbook to install nginx involves generating a public SSH key, copying it to the host, listing IP addresses, checking the connection, creating the playbook, and running and checking if nginx is installed. The process of writing a simple playbook to install nginx involves several steps, including generating a public SSH key, listing IP addresses, creating the playbook, and checking if nginx is installed.', 'Accessing variables in ansible involves using double curly braces to define expressions and using ginger tool or set fact for dynamic variable names. Accessing variables in ansible involves using double curly braces to define expressions and using ginger tool or set fact for dynamic variable names.']}], 'duration': 1402.192, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr47103021.jpg', 'highlights': ['Continuous integration involves frequent work integration, reducing problems and speeding up development.', 'Continuous delivery enables software release at any time with automated build scripts.', 'Configuration management ensures system integrity and addresses challenges in implementing changes.', 'Ansible offers simplicity, agentless operation, powerfulness, flexibility, and efficiency for automation.', 'Ansible provides over 450 modules for IT configuration management and orchestration.', 'Ansible deploys modules on node systems through SSH and is compared with Puppet based on various factors.', 'The main components of Ansible architecture include inventory, API, modules, plugins, networking, hosts, playbooks, CMDB, and cloud.', 'Ansible requires a controlling machine with nodes, inventory, and playbook for server provisioning.', 'Infrastructure as Code streamlines infrastructure management and reduces manual effort.', 'Ansible Galaxy provides a platform for sharing roles and modules and performing tasks on the Galaxy website.', 'Ad hoc commands serve as one-line alternatives to playbooks for specific tasks.', 'Ansible variables function similarly to programming language variables, enabling value assignment and conditions.', 'Ansible modules automate tasks, including core modules maintained by the Ansible team and extra modules by the community.', 'Playbooks in Ansible are written in YAML format and used for configuration files.', 'Accessing variables in Ansible involves using double curly braces and ginger tool or set fact for dynamic variable names.']}, {'end': 10079.721, 'segs': [{'end': 8531.3, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8505.413, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 8510.294, 'text': 'Otherwise differentiating between an undefined variable and a string will be difficult.', 'start': 8505.413, 'duration': 4.881}, {'end': 8515.336, 'text': 'The next question here is what is answerable role and how are they different from playbook?', 'start': 8511.215, 'duration': 4.121}, {'end': 8521.037, 'text': 'So answerable role is basically another level of abstraction used to organize playbooks.', 'start': 8516.176, 'duration': 4.861}, {'end': 8528.919, 'text': 'They provide a skeleton for an independent and reusable collection of variables, tasks, templates, files and modules,', 'start': 8521.637, 'duration': 7.282}, {'end': 8531.3, 'text': 'which can be automatically loaded into the playbook.', 'start': 8528.919, 'duration': 2.381}], 'summary': 'Answerable roles organize playbooks, providing a reusable collection of variables, tasks, templates, files, and modules.', 'duration': 25.887, 'max_score': 8505.413, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr48505413.jpg'}, {'end': 8580.034, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8550.231, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 8554.715, 'text': 'Using a single playbook can make it confusing and prone to blunders instead.', 'start': 8550.231, 'duration': 4.484}, {'end': 8560.579, 'text': 'You can create 10 different roles where each role will perform one particular task after that.', 'start': 8555.015, 'duration': 5.564}, {'end': 8567.785, 'text': 'All you need to do is mention the name of the role inside the playbook to call them so you can give such examples in your interviews.', 'start': 8560.939, 'duration': 6.846}, {'end': 8574.65, 'text': 'So the next question here is how do I write ansible handler with multiple tasks, say, for example,', 'start': 8569.005, 'duration': 5.645}, {'end': 8580.034, 'text': 'if you want to create a handler that restarts a service only if it is already running?', 'start': 8574.65, 'duration': 5.384}], 'summary': 'Using multiple roles in ansible playbook can prevent confusion and errors. for example, creating 10 different roles for specific tasks can be called within the playbook, such as creating an ansible handler to restart a service only if it is already running.', 'duration': 29.803, 'max_score': 8550.231, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr48550231.jpg'}, {'end': 8654.844, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8632.791, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 8641.539, 'text': 'The next question here is what are ansible vaults and why are they used? Ansible Vault is a feature that allows you to keep all your secrets safe.', 'start': 8632.791, 'duration': 8.748}, {'end': 8647.802, 'text': 'It can encrypt entire files entire yaml playbooks or even a few variables.', 'start': 8642.14, 'duration': 5.662}, {'end': 8654.844, 'text': 'It provides a facility where you can not only encrypt sensitive data, but also integrate them into your playbooks.', 'start': 8648.402, 'duration': 6.442}], 'summary': 'Ansible vault encrypts files and variables to secure sensitive data in playbooks.', 'duration': 22.053, 'max_score': 8632.791, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr48632791.jpg'}, {'end': 8783.23, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8759.904, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 8767.169, 'text': 'the ansible Tower dashboard displays everything going on in your ansible environment, like the hosts, inventory status,', 'start': 8759.904, 'duration': 7.265}, {'end': 8769.471, 'text': 'the recent job activity and so on.', 'start': 8767.169, 'duration': 2.302}, {'end': 8775.015, 'text': 'the next feature is the real-time job updates, as ansible can automate the complete infrastructure.', 'start': 8769.471, 'duration': 5.544}, {'end': 8783.23, 'text': 'You can see real-time job updates like plays and tasks broken down by each machine either been successful or a failure.', 'start': 8775.375, 'duration': 7.855}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower dashboard shows real-time job updates and inventory status.', 'duration': 23.326, 'max_score': 8759.904, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr48759904.jpg'}, {'end': 9280.296, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9253.932, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 9262.594, 'text': 'So suppose you are using ansible to configure the production environment and your playbook uses an encrypted file encrypted files from the user to enter passwords.', 'start': 9253.932, 'duration': 8.662}, {'end': 9267.475, 'text': 'So, but since ansible is used for automation, can this process be automated?', 'start': 9263.134, 'duration': 4.341}, {'end': 9274.276, 'text': 'So yes, ansible uses a feature called password file, where all the passwords to your encrypted files can be saved.', 'start': 9268.015, 'duration': 6.261}, {'end': 9280.296, 'text': 'So each time a user is asked for the password he can simply make a call to the password file.', 'start': 9274.816, 'duration': 5.48}], 'summary': 'Ansible enables automation of password retrieval for encrypted files in production environment.', 'duration': 26.364, 'max_score': 9253.932, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr49253932.jpg'}, {'end': 9502.683, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9476.268, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 9480.653, 'text': 'it can also be used to add additional output, integrate with other tools, Etc.', 'start': 9476.268, 'duration': 4.385}, {'end': 9491.024, 'text': 'The next question here is does ansible support AWS ansible has hundreds of modules supporting AWS such as auto scaling groups cloud formation.', 'start': 9481.654, 'duration': 9.37}, {'end': 9502.683, 'text': 'Cloud Trail, Cloud, watch, Dynamo DB, Elastic Cloud, compute identity access manager, Lambda relational database service, that is RDS security groups,', 'start': 9491.397, 'duration': 11.286}], 'summary': 'Ansible supports aws with hundreds of modules for services like auto scaling groups, cloud formation, cloudtrail, dynamodb, iam, lambda, rds, and security groups.', 'duration': 26.415, 'max_score': 9476.268, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr49476268.jpg'}, {'end': 9805.39, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9773.978, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 9780.884, 'text': 'And whereas Ansible is a configuration management tool, which means it can configure your applications running on, say it, on,', 'start': 9773.978, 'duration': 6.906}, {'end': 9784.927, 'text': 'packages running on Linux or Unix, so it can go out and upgrade them.', 'start': 9780.884, 'duration': 4.043}, {'end': 9788.43, 'text': 'Now coming to the second difference, that is the approach.', 'start': 9785.367, 'duration': 3.063}, {'end': 9794.735, 'text': 'So Terraform follows the declarative infrastructure as a code approach, whereas Ansible follows the procedural approach.', 'start': 9789.05, 'duration': 5.685}, {'end': 9805.39, 'text': 'So declarative infrastructure as a code approach is where the end goal or attributes of the automation is described and through a purpose-built program it is interpreted in order to realize the goal.', 'start': 9795.307, 'duration': 10.083}], 'summary': 'Ansible configures apps and upgrades packages, while terraform uses declarative infrastructure as code approach.', 'duration': 31.412, 'max_score': 9773.978, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr49773978.jpg'}, {'end': 10053.591, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 9934.82, 'weight': 0.81, 'content': [{'end': 9943.163, 'text': 'If you see Terraform, which actually highly depends on lifecycle or state management, whereas Encibel does not have lifecycle management at all,', 'start': 9934.82, 'duration': 8.343}, {'end': 9943.603, 'text': 'I would say.', 'start': 9943.163, 'duration': 0.44}, {'end': 9946.264, 'text': 'Now the question is which tool you should choose?', 'start': 9943.963, 'duration': 2.301}, {'end': 9950.205, 'text': 'Which tool is better for your business or for your work?', 'start': 9946.744, 'duration': 3.461}, {'end': 9954.039, 'text': 'So every tool has its unique characteristics and limitations.', 'start': 9950.737, 'duration': 3.302}, {'end': 9956.301, 'text': "So let's check out which one to go with.", 'start': 9954.48, 'duration': 1.821}, {'end': 9961.044, 'text': 'So Teleform comes with good scheduling capabilities and is very user-friendly.', 'start': 9956.681, 'duration': 4.363}, {'end': 9967.088, 'text': 'It integrates with Docker well as Docker handles the configuration management slightly better than Teleform.', 'start': 9961.605, 'duration': 5.483}, {'end': 9972.512, 'text': 'But there is no clear evidence of how the target devices are brought to their final state.', 'start': 9967.509, 'duration': 5.003}, {'end': 9975.254, 'text': 'And sometimes the final configuration is unnecessary.', 'start': 9972.712, 'duration': 2.542}, {'end': 9976.635, 'text': 'Now coming to Ansible.', 'start': 9975.674, 'duration': 0.961}, {'end': 9980.066, 'text': 'Ansible comes with better security and ACL functionality.', 'start': 9977.082, 'duration': 2.984}, {'end': 9985.672, 'text': 'It is considered a mature tool because it adjusts comfortably with the traditional automation frameworks.', 'start': 9980.566, 'duration': 5.106}, {'end': 9989.217, 'text': 'It offers simple operations and helps to port quickly.', 'start': 9986.153, 'duration': 3.064}, {'end': 9995.965, 'text': 'But on the other hand, it is not good at services like logical dependencies, orchestration services, and interconnected applications.', 'start': 9989.637, 'duration': 6.328}, {'end': 10000.389, 'text': 'you can now choose between these two, according to the requirement of the situation and for the job.', 'start': 9996.485, 'duration': 3.904}, {'end': 10007.196, 'text': 'for example, if the containerized solution is used to provision software within the cloud, then terraform is preferable.', 'start': 10000.389, 'duration': 6.807}, {'end': 10007.937, 'text': 'on the other hand,', 'start': 10007.196, 'duration': 0.741}, {'end': 10018.949, 'text': 'if you want to gain reasonable control of your devices and find other ways to deploy underlying services and cyber is like more suitable these tools will provide more comprehensive solutions in the future,', 'start': 10007.937, 'duration': 11.012}, {'end': 10019.249, 'text': 'for sure.', 'start': 10018.949, 'duration': 0.3}, {'end': 10025.491, 'text': 'So the final conclusion is it is essential to know which tool is used for which job among Terraformers and Encibel.', 'start': 10019.747, 'duration': 5.744}, {'end': 10030.834, 'text': 'And Terraform is mainly known for provisioning infrastructure across various clouds.', 'start': 10025.971, 'duration': 4.863}, {'end': 10035.477, 'text': 'It supports more than 200 providers and great tool to manage cloud services below server.', 'start': 10031.355, 'duration': 4.122}, {'end': 10040.32, 'text': 'In comparison, Encibel is optimized to perform both provisioning and configuration management.', 'start': 10035.738, 'duration': 4.582}, {'end': 10045.984, 'text': 'Therefore we can say both Terraform and Encibel can work hand in hand as standalone tools or work together,', 'start': 10040.701, 'duration': 5.283}, {'end': 10048.746, 'text': 'but always pick up the right tool as per your job requirement.', 'start': 10045.984, 'duration': 2.762}, {'end': 10053.591, 'text': "So with this, we come to the end of today's session of Terraform versus Ansible.", 'start': 10049.184, 'duration': 4.407}], 'summary': 'Terraform excels in cloud provisioning with 200+ providers, while ansible offers mature security and acl functionality.', 'duration': 118.771, 'max_score': 9934.82, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr49934820.jpg'}], 'start': 8505.413, 'title': 'Understanding ansible, ansible tower, q&a, insights, and terraform', 'summary': 'Explains the difference between ansible roles and playbooks, managing secret data in ansible, ansible tower features, automation tips, insights for interviews, and a comparison of terraform and ansible, covering their key features, capabilities, and best use cases.', 'chapters': [{'end': 8589.69, 'start': 8505.413, 'title': 'Understanding ansible roles and playbooks', 'summary': 'Explains the difference between ansible roles and playbooks, emphasizing the importance of using roles for better organization and reusability, and showcasing the benefit of using handlers to trigger multiple tasks.', 'duration': 84.277, 'highlights': ['Ansible roles provide a skeleton for an independent and reusable collection of variables, tasks, templates, files, and modules, automatically loaded into the playbook, improving organization and reusability.', 'Using multiple roles in playbooks for different tasks on various systems is more efficient than using a single playbook, as it reduces confusion and potential errors, making it a better practice for organizing tasks.', 'Handlers in Ansible can listen to generic topics and tasks can notify those topics, making it much easier to trigger multiple handlers, enhancing the efficiency of task execution.']}, {'end': 9081.469, 'start': 8590.47, 'title': 'Secret management in ansible and ansible tower features', 'summary': 'Covers managing secret data in ansible playbooks, using ansible vault for encryption, and features of ansible tower, including dashboard, real-time updates, multi-playbook workflows, and cluster scalability.', 'duration': 490.999, 'highlights': ['Ansible Vault feature for encrypting entire files and playbooks Ansible Vault allows encryption of entire files and playbooks to keep sensitive data safe.', 'Features of Ansible Tower including dashboard, real-time updates, and multi-playbook workflows Ansible Tower provides a dashboard, real-time updates, and multi-playbook workflows for efficient management and automation of infrastructure.', 'Using ansible playbook to deploy a lamp stack and web page on multiple systems Ansible playbook can be used to deploy a lamp stack and web page on multiple systems simultaneously for efficient website deployment.', "Setting environment variables for a particular task or entire playbook Environment variables can be set for specific tasks or entire playbooks using the 'environment' keyword in Ansible.", "Using 'no_log' attribute to hide sensitive data in playbooks The 'no_log' attribute can hide sensitive data in playbooks to keep them secure."]}, {'end': 9297.004, 'start': 9082.149, 'title': 'Ansible q&a and automation tips', 'summary': 'Covers generating encrypted passwords, looping over a list of hosts, displaying inventory variables, configuring a jump host for indirect access, handling different user accounts or ports, and automating the process of configuring production environment using ansible, with a focus on security risks and best practices.', 'duration': 214.855, 'highlights': ['Automating the process of configuring prod environment using Ansible and password file feature Ansible can automate the process of configuring the production environment using a feature called password file, enabling the automation of entering passwords for encrypted files and considering the security implications of having a separate script for specifying passwords.', 'Generating encrypted passwords using ad-hoc command and MK password functionality Encrypted passwords for the user module can be generated using ad-hoc commands or the MK password functionality available on Linux systems, with the option of using Python on Mac OS and the pass lib password hashing library for generating sha512 password values.', 'Configuring a jump host to access servers with no direct access Configuring a jump host involves setting a proxy command in the ansible SSH common arcs inventory variable, adding all relevant arguments to the SFTP, SCP, and SSH command line when connecting to the respective host.', 'Handling different user accounts or ports by setting inventory variables and group variables Handling different user accounts or ports for accessing machines can be achieved by setting inventory variables in the inventory file, with the option of specifying the connection type and keeping these variables in group variables.', 'Displaying inventory variables defined for a host using a specific command To check the inventory variables defined for a host, a specific command can be used to list all the inventory variables, allowing visibility into the defined inventory and associated variables.']}, {'end': 9639.656, 'start': 9297.844, 'title': 'Ansible interview insights', 'summary': 'Discusses the use of ansible in interviews, covering topics such as experience with ansible, its capabilities, creating custom modules, facts, modules supporting aws, hardware provisioning, writing ansible playbook, and copying files recursively onto a target host.', 'duration': 341.812, 'highlights': ['Ansible supports hundreds of modules for AWS, including auto scaling groups, cloud formation, Dynamo DB, S3, and more. Ansible has extensive support for AWS with modules covering various services, showcasing its versatility and applicability in cloud infrastructure management.', 'Creating custom modules within Ansible is possible, requiring proficiency in Python and programming skills. The ability to create custom modules in Ansible emphasizes the flexibility and extensibility of the tool, necessitating a strong grasp of Python and programming.', 'Ansible can provision hardware, provided that specific services like DHCP, PXE, TFTP, and others are set up beforehand. The capability of Ansible to provision hardware highlights its adaptability to traditional infrastructure setups, albeit with specific prerequisite services in place.', "Ansible can copy files recursively onto a target host using the copy module with a recursive parameter. The copy module's recursive parameter enables the seamless recursive copying of files onto target hosts, showcasing Ansible's file management capabilities.", 'Ansible is an open source tool used for provisioning and configuration management, emphasizing the practical application of the tool in real-world scenarios. The open source nature of Ansible underscores its accessibility and utility in handling provisioning and configuration management tasks, vital for IT professionals and organizations.']}, {'end': 10079.721, 'start': 9640.116, 'title': 'Terraform vs ansible: a comparison', 'summary': 'Introduces terraform and ansible, highlighting their key features and differences, such as terraform being best fit for orchestrating cloud services and ansible for configuring servers. it also provides an in-depth comparison of their capabilities, integrations, and best use cases, concluding that both tools can work hand in hand or independently, depending on the job requirements.', 'duration': 439.605, 'highlights': ['Terraform is best fit for orchestrating cloud services and setting up cloud infrastructure from scratch, whereas Ansible is best fit for configuring servers. Terraform is suitable for orchestrating cloud services and setting up cloud infrastructure, while Ansible excels at configuring servers.', 'Terraform supports more than 200 providers and is a great tool to manage cloud services, while Ansible is optimized for both provisioning and configuration management. Terraform supports over 200 providers and excels in managing cloud services, while Ansible is optimized for both provisioning and configuration management.', 'Teleform integrates well with Docker, while Ansible comes with better security and ACL functionality. Teleform integrates well with Docker, while Ansible offers better security and ACL functionality.', 'Teleform does not support bare metal provisioning by default, whereas Ansible supports provisioning of bare metal servers. Teleform does not support bare metal provisioning by default, while Ansible supports the provisioning of bare metal servers.', 'Terraform is preferable if the containerized solution is used to provision software within the cloud, while Ansible is more suitable if gaining reasonable control of devices and deploying underlying services is the priority. Terraform is preferable for containerized solutions in the cloud, while Ansible is more suitable for gaining control of devices and deploying underlying services.', 'Both Terraform and Ansible can work hand in hand as standalone tools or work together, depending on the job requirements. Both Terraform and Ansible can work independently or together, depending on the job requirements.']}], 'duration': 1574.308, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/9Ua2b06oAr4/pics/9Ua2b06oAr48505413.jpg', 'highlights': ['Ansible roles improve organization and reusability by providing a skeleton for a collection of variables, tasks, templates, files, and modules.', 'Using multiple roles in playbooks for different tasks on various systems reduces confusion and potential errors, making it a better practice for organizing tasks.', 'Ansible Vault feature allows encryption of entire files and playbooks to keep sensitive data safe.', 'Ansible Tower provides a dashboard, real-time updates, and multi-playbook workflows for efficient management and automation of infrastructure.', 'Automating the process of configuring the production environment using a feature called password file enables the automation of entering passwords for encrypted files.', 'Ansible supports hundreds of modules for AWS, showcasing its versatility and applicability in cloud infrastructure management.', 'Terraform is suitable for orchestrating cloud services and setting up cloud infrastructure, while Ansible excels at configuring servers.', 'Terraform supports over 200 providers and excels in managing cloud services, while Ansible is optimized for both provisioning and configuration management.']}], 'highlights': ['Ansible Tower resulted in significant time reductions for NASA: Updating nasa.gov took 1 hour before Ansible, but only 5 minutes after; security patching updates reduced from multi-day to 45 minutes; OS account provisioning decreased from unknown to 10 minutes.', 'Ansible has widespread its usage by over 41% according to a survey, making it a popular individual configuration management tool.', "Ansible Tower's multiple playbook workflows enable chaining any number of playbooks, regardless of different inventories or users, and allow for complex operations like provisioning, configuration, deployment, and CI/CD testing.", "Ansible drastically changed NASA's management system.", 'Ansible roles enable the organization and reusability of playbook components.', 'Ansible offers simplicity, agentless operation, powerfulness, flexibility, and efficiency for automation.', 'Ansible provides over 450 modules for IT configuration management and orchestration.', 'Ansible Tower provides a dashboard, real-time updates, and multi-playbook workflows for efficient management and automation of infrastructure.', 'Terraform is suitable for orchestrating cloud services and setting up cloud infrastructure, while Ansible excels at configuring servers.', 'Ansible supports hundreds of modules for AWS, showcasing its versatility and applicability in cloud infrastructure management.']}