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🔥 IIT Guwahati Professional Certificate Program In Cloud Computing And DevOps (India Only): https://www.simplilearn.com/professional-certificate-program-cloud-computing-devops?utm_campaign=25AugustTubebuddyExpCloud&DevopsIITG&utm_medium=DescriptionFF&utm_source=youtube 🔥DevOps Engineer Masters Program (Discount Code - YTBE15): https://www.simplilearn.com/devops-engineer-masters-program-certification-training?utm_campaign=SCE-DevopsMaster&utm_medium=DescriptionFF&utm_source=youtube 🔥Post Graduate Program In DevOps: https://www.simplilearn.com/pgp-devops-certification-training-course?utm_campaign=EcnqJbxBcM0-DevOps&utm_medium=DescriptionFirstFold&utm_source=youtube This video on Ansible course will help you learn about the most popular configuration management tool used in DevOps. Ansible is an open-source automation engine that automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. You will learn how to install and configure Ansible on CentOS. You will understand what is Ansible, why it is needed, the architecture of Ansible, and see a use case on how Hootsuite used Ansible. Finally, you will perform a demo on how to install HTTPD using Ansible. Now, let's get started with learning Ansible in detail. 00:00 Ansible Installation 09:30 What is Ansible 13:29 Pull configuration 15:26 Ansible architecture 16:30 Playbook 18:49 Inventory 19:39 Working of ansible 22:01 Use case by hootsuite 24:03 Ansible Tutorial 30:20 Benefits of Ansible 31:55 Demo To learn more about DevOps, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Simplilearn?sub_confirmation=1 Watch more videos on DevOps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glwcz5DvY88&list=PLEiEAq2VkUUJS6zkGgXeWw9l32EwRoYdR #DevOps #DevOpsTutorial #DevOpsTraining #DevOpsTools #Chef #Jenkins #Puppet #Simplilearn ➡️ Post Graduate Program In DevOps DevOps training course will bring out the scientist in you. You'll learn how to formalize and document development processes and create a self-documenting system. DevOps certification course will also cover advanced tools like Puppet, SaltStack, and Ansible that help self-governance and automated management at scale. ✅ Key Features - Caltech CTME Post Graduate Certificate - Enrolment in Simplilearn’s JobAssist - Receive upto 25 CEUs from Caltech CTME upon course completion - Simplilearn's JobAssist helps you get noticed by top hiring companies - Master classes taught by Caltech CTME instructor - 8X higher interaction in live online classes conducted by industry experts - Online Convocation by Caltech CTME Program Director - 20+ real- ✅ Skills Covered - DevOps Methodology - Continuous Integration - Continuous Delivery - Configuration Management - Containerization - DevOps on Cloud - Source Control - Deployment Automation - Cloud Platforms 👉Learn More at: https://www.simplilearn.com/pgp-devops-certification-training-course?utm_campaign=EcnqJbxBcM0-DevOps&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=youtube 🔥🔥 Interested in Attending Live Classes? Call Us: IN - 18002127688 / US - +18445327688

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Apache service.', "The successful completion of the playbook execution is verified by checking the running state of the httpd service and confirming the hosted webpage's display on the browser.", 'The Ansible playbook checks the syntax before pushing it to the client machine, ensuring a smooth execution process.', 'YAML is extremely simple to both write and understand, very close to English, and is used for writing Ansible playbooks.', 'The chapter emphasizes the importance of careful indentations and spacing while writing YAML code.']}, {'end': 993.115, 'segs': [{'end': 637.96, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 603.901, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 606.782, 'text': "As a little extra, we're going to also throw in Ansible Tower,", 'start': 603.901, 'duration': 2.881}, {'end': 613.685, 'text': 'one of the secret source solutions that you can use for improving the speed and performance of how you create your Ansible environments.', 'start': 606.782, 'duration': 6.903}, {'end': 620.308, 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749.821, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 755.542, 'text': 'So you know this is all great, but you know, how do we actually use these tools in our environment?', 'start': 749.821, 'duration': 5.721}, {'end': 765.329, 'text': 'So Ansible is a tool that really allows you to create and control three key areas that you would have within your operations environment.', 'start': 755.919, 'duration': 9.41}, {'end': 767.251, 'text': "First of all, there's IT automation.", 'start': 765.469, 'duration': 1.782}, {'end': 774.539, 'text': 'So you can actually write instructions that automate the IT setup that you would typically do manually in the past.', 'start': 767.271, 'duration': 7.268}], 'summary': 'Ansible enables it automation for manual tasks.', 'duration': 24.718, 'max_score': 749.821, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM0749821.jpg'}], 'start': 551.726, 'title': 'Ansible in devops and server infrastructure management', 'summary': 'Covers the importance of ansible in devops, including its value, architecture, playbook creation, and inventory management. it also discusses managing diverse server infrastructures, introducing ansible as an efficient operations tool for it automation, configuration management, and automated deployment.', 'chapters': [{'end': 647.587, 'start': 551.726, 'title': 'Ansible: key tool for devops', 'summary': 'Covers the importance of ansible in devops, including its value, architecture, playbook creation, inventory management, and a use case of hootsuite, a social media management company, leveraging ansible to improve efficiency.', 'duration': 95.861, 'highlights': ['The chapter covers the importance of Ansible in DevOps, including its value, architecture, playbook creation, inventory management, and a use case of Hootsuite, a social media management company, leveraging Ansible to improve efficiency.', 'Ansible is highlighted as one of the key tools within a DevOps environment, providing value to organizations by efficiently managing server environments.', 'The chapter explains the differences between Ansible and other similar products, emphasizing the compelling nature of Ansible.', 'It also includes insights into Ansible Tower, a solution for improving the speed and performance of creating Ansible environments.', 'The use case of Hootsuite demonstrates how Ansible is utilized to enhance efficiency within organizations.']}, {'end': 993.115, 'start': 647.587, 'title': 'Managing server infrastructure with ansible', 'summary': 'Highlights the challenges of maintaining diverse server infrastructures, introduces ansible as an efficient operations tool for it automation, configuration management, and automated deployment, and discusses the push configuration architecture of ansible.', 'duration': 345.528, 'highlights': ['Introduction to Ansible as an efficient operations tool for IT automation, configuration management, and automated deployment Ansible is presented as a tool to streamline operations and ensure consistency in server setup and deployment, enhancing efficiency for the operations team.', 'Challenges of maintaining diverse server infrastructures and the need for consistent setup The difficulties of maintaining consistent setup across multiple servers are discussed, emphasizing the human error and the need for automated solutions as the number of servers increases.', 'Comparison of push configuration architecture of Ansible with other popular products like Chef and Puppet The push configuration architecture of Ansible is explained, highlighting its advantages such as avoiding the overhead of a client installed on remote servers and the absence of constant communication back to the master environment.']}], 'duration': 441.389, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM0551726.jpg', 'highlights': ['The chapter covers the importance of Ansible in DevOps, including its value, architecture, playbook creation, and inventory management, and a use case of Hootsuite leveraging Ansible to improve efficiency.', 'Introduction to Ansible as an efficient operations tool for IT automation, configuration management, and automated deployment, presenting it as a tool to streamline operations and ensure consistency in server setup and deployment.']}, {'end': 1306.886, 'segs': [{'end': 1060.082, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 993.355, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 999.199, 'text': "We're going to take a first look at playbooks that you would write and create for the Ansible environments.", 'start': 993.355, 'duration': 5.844}, {'end': 1002.341, 'text': 'So the core of Ansible is the playbook.', 'start': 999.779, 'duration': 2.562}, {'end': 1009.185, 'text': 'This is where you create the instructions that you write to define the architecture of your hardware.', 'start': 1002.381, 'duration': 6.804}, {'end': 1014.428, 'text': 'So the playbook is really just a set of instructions that configure the different nodes that you have.', 'start': 1009.725, 'duration': 4.703}, {'end': 1019.071, 'text': 'And each of those set of instructions is written in a language called YAML.', 'start': 1014.728, 'duration': 4.343}, {'end': 1024.114, 'text': 'And this is a standard language used for configuration server environments.', 'start': 1019.311, 'duration': 4.803}, {'end': 1031.839, 'text': "Did you know that YAML actually stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language? It's just a little tidbit to hide behind your ear.", 'start': 1024.594, 'duration': 7.245}, {'end': 1035.401, 'text': "So let's have a look at what one of these playbooks looks like.", 'start': 1032.199, 'duration': 3.202}, {'end': 1039.464, 'text': "And here we have a sample YAML script that we've written.", 'start': 1035.621, 'duration': 3.843}, {'end': 1046.228, 'text': 'So you start off your YAML script with three dashes, and that integrates the start of a script.', 'start': 1039.844, 'duration': 6.384}, {'end': 1050.772, 'text': 'And then the script itself is actually consistent of two distinct plays.', 'start': 1046.508, 'duration': 4.264}, {'end': 1054.957, 'text': 'At the top we have play one and below that we have play two.', 'start': 1051.033, 'duration': 3.924}, {'end': 1060.082, 'text': 'Within each of those plays we define which nodes are we targeting.', 'start': 1055.257, 'duration': 4.825}], 'summary': 'Ansible playbooks define hardware architecture using yaml for server configuration.', 'duration': 66.727, 'max_score': 993.355, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM0993355.jpg'}, {'end': 1145.535, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1122.284, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 1131.146, 'text': 'Well, this takes us into our next stage and the second part of working with Ansible, which is the inventory management part of Ansible.', 'start': 1122.284, 'duration': 8.862}, {'end': 1137.573, 'text': 'So the inventory part of Ansible is where we maintain the structure of our network environment.', 'start': 1131.792, 'duration': 5.781}, {'end': 1145.535, 'text': 'So what we do here is part of the structure in creating different nodes is we had to create two different nodes here.', 'start': 1137.993, 'duration': 7.542}], 'summary': "Ansible's inventory management structures network environment and creates two nodes.", 'duration': 23.251, 'max_score': 1122.284, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM01122284.jpg'}, {'end': 1226.377, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1194.239, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 1196.299, 'text': "you'll have first your playbook,", 'start': 1194.239, 'duration': 2.06}, {'end': 1204.702, 'text': "which is the set of instructions for how to set up the remote nodes and then to identify how you're gonna connect to those nodes.", 'start': 1196.299, 'duration': 8.403}, {'end': 1206.162, 'text': "you'll have an inventory.", 'start': 1204.702, 'duration': 1.46}, {'end': 1215.008, 'text': 'We use secure SSH connections to each of the servers, so we are encrypting the communication to those servers.', 'start': 1206.542, 'duration': 8.466}, {'end': 1218.951, 'text': "We're able to grab some basic facts on each server,", 'start': 1215.469, 'duration': 3.482}, {'end': 1226.377, 'text': 'so we understand how we can then push out the playbook to each server and configure that server remotely.', 'start': 1218.951, 'duration': 7.426}], 'summary': 'Using a playbook and secure ssh connections to set up and configure remote servers, encrypting communication, and gathering basic server facts.', 'duration': 32.138, 'max_score': 1194.239, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM01194239.jpg'}, {'end': 1284.625, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1261.031, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1270.256, 'text': 'Ansible Tower is an extra product that Red Hat created that really kind of puts the cherry on the top of the ice cream or is the icing on your cake.', 'start': 1261.031, 'duration': 9.225}, {'end': 1273.577, 'text': 'Ansible by itself is a command line tool.', 'start': 1270.836, 'duration': 2.741}, {'end': 1278.92, 'text': 'However, Ansible Tower is a framework that was designed to access Ansible.', 'start': 1273.837, 'duration': 5.083}, {'end': 1284.625, 'text': 'through the Ansible Tower framework, we now have an easy to use GUI.', 'start': 1279.58, 'duration': 5.045}], 'summary': 'Ansible tower enhances ansible with easy-to-use gui.', 'duration': 23.594, 'max_score': 1261.031, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM01261031.jpg'}], 'start': 993.355, 'title': 'Ansible playbooks and server management', 'summary': 'Introduces ansible playbooks written in yaml to define hardware architecture and configure nodes, including a sample yaml script and explains its structure. it also explains managing web and database servers using ansible, covering inventory management, playbook execution, secure ssh connections, and the benefits of ansible tower.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1060.082, 'start': 993.355, 'title': 'Ansible playbooks overview', 'summary': 'Introduces playbooks as the core of ansible, outlining how they are written in yaml to define hardware architecture and configure nodes, also providing a sample yaml script and explaining its structure.', 'duration': 66.727, 'highlights': ['The playbook is the core of Ansible, where instructions are written to define the architecture of hardware.', 'Playbooks are written in YAML, a standard language for configuring server environments, and consist of distinct plays targeting specific nodes.', 'A sample YAML script is provided, demonstrating the structure of playbooks with two distinct plays defining targeted nodes.']}, {'end': 1306.886, 'start': 1060.282, 'title': 'Ansible: managing web and database servers', 'summary': 'Explains the process of managing web and database servers using ansible, including inventory management, playbook execution, secure ssh connections, and the benefits of ansible tower.', 'duration': 246.604, 'highlights': ['Ansible Tower provides an easy-to-use GUI, making it simpler for non-developers to manage environments in their DevOps plan without relying on the command prompt window. Ansible Tower is a framework that offers a GUI, simplifying environment management for non-developers in DevOps.', 'The inventory part of Ansible is where the structure of the network environment is maintained, enabling easy configuration and execution of scripts on specific servers. The inventory management part of Ansible ensures the structure of the network environment is maintained, simplifying the execution of scripts on specific servers.', 'Ansible uses secure SSH connections to encrypt communication with servers, allowing the playbook to be pushed out to each server and configured remotely. Ansible employs secure SSH connections to encrypt communication with servers, facilitating remote configuration and playbook execution.', 'The end goal of Ansible is to establish a consistent environment through the set of instructions in the playbook, ensuring uniformity across the network. The end goal of Ansible is to achieve consistency in the network environment through the execution of instructions in the playbook, ensuring uniformity.', 'Ansible Tower is a framework designed to access Ansible, providing an easy-to-use GUI and enhancing the overall functionality of Ansible. Ansible Tower is a framework that allows access to Ansible, offering an easy-to-use GUI and enhancing the overall functionality.']}], 'duration': 313.531, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM0993355.jpg', 'highlights': ['The playbook is the core of Ansible, where instructions are written to define the architecture of hardware.', 'Playbooks are written in YAML, a standard language for configuring server environments, and consist of distinct plays targeting specific nodes.', 'A sample YAML script is provided, demonstrating the structure of playbooks with two distinct plays defining targeted nodes.', 'Ansible Tower provides an easy-to-use GUI, making it simpler for non-developers to manage environments in their DevOps plan without relying on the command prompt window.', 'The inventory part of Ansible is where the structure of the network environment is maintained, enabling easy configuration and execution of scripts on specific servers.', 'Ansible uses secure SSH connections to encrypt communication with servers, allowing the playbook to be pushed out to each server and configured remotely.', 'The end goal of Ansible is to establish a consistent environment through the set of instructions in the playbook, ensuring uniformity across the network.']}, {'end': 1560.264, 'segs': [{'end': 1451.182, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1398.704, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1409.238, 'text': 'Today, the DevOps team at Hootsuite write out playbooks that have specific instructions that define the architecture and structure of their hardware,', 'start': 1398.704, 'duration': 10.534}, {'end': 1410.44, 'text': 'nodes and environments.', 'start': 1409.238, 'duration': 1.202}, {'end': 1413.281, 'text': 'and are able to do that as a standard product.', 'start': 1410.72, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 1423.503, 'text': 'Instead of it being a problem in scaling up their environment, they now are able to rebuild and create new servers in a matter of seconds.', 'start': 1413.761, 'duration': 9.742}, {'end': 1431.005, 'text': 'The bottom line is Ansible has been able to provide Hootsuite with IT automation,', 'start': 1424.203, 'duration': 6.802}, {'end': 1439.352, 'text': 'consistent configuration and free up time from the operations team so that instead of managing servers,', 'start': 1431.385, 'duration': 7.967}, {'end': 1443.135, 'text': "they're able to provide additional new value to the company.", 'start': 1439.352, 'duration': 3.783}, {'end': 1445.637, 'text': 'A very warm welcome to all our viewers.', 'start': 1443.615, 'duration': 2.022}, {'end': 1451.182, 'text': "I'm Anjali from Simply Learn and today I'll be taking you through a tutorial on Ansible.", 'start': 1445.997, 'duration': 5.185}], 'summary': "Hootsuite's devops team uses ansible to automate it tasks, reducing server deployment time from hours to seconds and freeing up time for value-added work.", 'duration': 52.478, 'max_score': 1398.704, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM01398704.jpg'}], 'start': 1306.886, 'title': "Hootsuite's ansible usage", 'summary': "Discusses hootsuite's use of ansible to automate it operations, enabling server rebuilding and creation within seconds, leading to improved operational efficiency and additional value for the company.", 'chapters': [{'end': 1560.264, 'start': 1306.886, 'title': 'Ansible at hootsuite', 'summary': 'Discusses how hootsuite utilized ansible to automate it operations, resulting in the ability to rebuild and create new servers in seconds, freeing up time for the operations team, and providing additional value to the company.', 'duration': 253.378, 'highlights': ['Hootsuite is able to rebuild and create new servers in a matter of seconds with Ansible, freeing up time for the operations team. The DevOps team at Hootsuite write out playbooks that define the architecture and structure of their hardware, nodes, and environments, enabling them to rebuild and create new servers in seconds.', 'Ansible has provided Hootsuite with IT automation, consistent configuration, and freed up time from the operations team to provide additional value to the company. Ansible has enabled Hootsuite to automate IT operations, ensuring consistent configuration and freeing up time for the operations team to deliver additional value to the company.', 'Hootsuite had a challenge of constantly rebuilding their server environment due to popular demand, which was resolved by Ansible. Hootsuite faced the challenge of constantly rebuilding their server environment due to the popularity of their product, which was resolved with the implementation of Ansible.']}], 'duration': 253.378, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM01306886.jpg', 'highlights': ['Ansible enables Hootsuite to rebuild and create servers in seconds, freeing up time for the operations team.', 'DevOps team writes playbooks defining architecture and structure, enabling server rebuilding in seconds.', 'Ansible provides IT automation, consistent configuration, and frees up time for additional value delivery.', 'Hootsuite faced the challenge of constantly rebuilding server environment due to popular demand, resolved by Ansible.']}, {'end': 2435.864, 'segs': [{'end': 1671.083, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1584.272, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1591.098, 'text': 'Orchestration basically means bringing together of multiple applications and ensuring an order in which these are executed.', 'start': 1584.272, 'duration': 6.826}, {'end': 1600.226, 'text': 'So for example, if you consider a web page that you require to host, this web page stores all its values that it takes from the user into a database.', 'start': 1591.498, 'duration': 8.728}, {'end': 1607.272, 'text': 'So the first thing you must do is ensure that the system has a database manager and only then do you host your web page.', 'start': 1600.506, 'duration': 6.766}, {'end': 1611.576, 'text': 'So this kind of an order is very crucial to ensure that things work right.', 'start': 1607.732, 'duration': 3.844}, {'end': 1615.178, 'text': 'Next, Ansible automates configuration management.', 'start': 1612.296, 'duration': 2.882}, {'end': 1621.683, 'text': 'So configuration management simply means that all the systems are maintained at a consistent desired state.', 'start': 1615.579, 'duration': 6.104}, {'end': 1626.126, 'text': 'Other tools that automate configuration management include Puppet and Chef.', 'start': 1621.943, 'duration': 4.183}, {'end': 1629.329, 'text': 'And finally, Ansible automates deployment.', 'start': 1626.827, 'duration': 2.502}, {'end': 1635.113, 'text': 'Deployment simply means the deploying of application onto your servers of different environments.', 'start': 1629.749, 'duration': 5.364}, {'end': 1641.992, 'text': "So if you have to deploy an application on 10 systems with different environments, you don't have to manually do this anymore,", 'start': 1635.589, 'duration': 6.403}, {'end': 1643.693, 'text': 'because Ansible automates it for you.', 'start': 1641.992, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 1652.197, 'text': 'In fact, Ansible can also ensure that these applications or the code are deployed at a certain time or after regular intervals.', 'start': 1644.093, 'duration': 8.104}, {'end': 1656.959, 'text': "Now that we know what exactly Ansible is, let's look at Ansible's architecture.", 'start': 1652.917, 'duration': 4.042}, {'end': 1658.98, 'text': 'Ansible has two main components.', 'start': 1657.42, 'duration': 1.56}, {'end': 1662.522, 'text': 'You have the local machine and you have your node or the client machine.', 'start': 1659.2, 'duration': 3.322}, {'end': 1665.82, 'text': 'So the local machine is where the system administrator sits.', 'start': 1662.898, 'duration': 2.922}, {'end': 1668.081, 'text': 'He or she installs Ansible here.', 'start': 1666.3, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 1671.083, 'text': 'And on the other end, you have your node or the client systems.', 'start': 1668.382, 'duration': 2.701}], 'summary': 'Orchestration ensures order in executing applications; 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Let's have a look at that.", 'start': 1841.27, 'duration': 2.282}, {'end': 1850.819, 'text': 'Agentless, as I already mentioned before, you require no supporting software or plugin installed on your node or the client system.', 'start': 1844.152, 'duration': 6.667}, {'end': 1854.565, 'text': 'So the master has complete control and automatically.', 'start': 1851.403, 'duration': 3.162}, {'end': 1856.787, 'text': 'this means that Ansible is more efficient,', 'start': 1854.565, 'duration': 2.222}], 'summary': 'Ansible is an efficient, flexible, and agentless tool for automated reporting, providing complete control to the master.', 'duration': 23.445, 'max_score': 1833.342, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM01833342.jpg'}, {'end': 1963.149, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1937.308, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 1941.672, 'text': "We'll then write the inventory and the playbook and then simply deploy this playbook.", 'start': 1937.308, 'duration': 4.364}, {'end': 1943.197, 'text': 'On the client machine.', 'start': 1942.256, 'duration': 0.941}, {'end': 1949.941, 'text': "there's just one thing that we need to do is that we need to check if the configurations that we mentioned in our playbook are made right.", 'start': 1943.197, 'duration': 6.744}, {'end': 1951.982, 'text': "So we'll now begin our demo.", 'start': 1950.621, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 1954.003, 'text': 'This is my Oracle VirtualBox.', 'start': 1952.382, 'duration': 1.621}, {'end': 1958.346, 'text': 'Here I have my master system which is the local machine and this is the client machine.', 'start': 1954.304, 'duration': 4.042}, {'end': 1960.367, 'text': "So let's have a look at these two machines.", 'start': 1958.706, 'duration': 1.661}, {'end': 1961.788, 'text': 'This is my client machine.', 'start': 1960.908, 'duration': 0.88}, {'end': 1963.149, 'text': 'The terminal is open right now.', 'start': 1961.828, 'duration': 1.321}], 'summary': 'Creating and deploying playbook for client machine.', 'duration': 25.841, 'max_score': 1937.308, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/EcnqJbxBcM0/pics/EcnqJbxBcM01937308.jpg'}], 'start': 1560.804, 'title': 'Ansible: overview and hands-on demo', 'summary': 'Introduces ansible as an it automation engine, covering orchestration, configuration management, and deployment. it also provides an overview, benefits, and a hands-on demo, showcasing installation, inventory, and playbook execution.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1713.924, 'start': 1560.804, 'title': 'Introduction to ansible', 'summary': 'Introduces ansible as an it engine used for automation, covering orchestration, configuration management, and deployment, with emphasis on its architecture including the local machine, nodes, modules, playbooks, and inventory.', 'duration': 153.12, 'highlights': ['Ansible automates orchestration, configuration management, and deployment tasks, simplifying system configuration and ensuring consistent desired states. Ansible orchestrates multiple applications, automates configuration management, and deploys applications onto servers, streamlining system configuration and maintenance.', 'Orchestration in Ansible ensures the orderly execution of tasks, crucial for proper functioning, such as ensuring the presence of a database manager before hosting a web page. Orchestration in Ansible ensures the orderly execution of tasks, crucial for proper functioning, such as ensuring the presence of a database manager before hosting a web page.', "Ansible's architecture involves a local machine where the system administrator installs Ansible, and the client machines or nodes which are controlled by the local machine. 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