How to Install/Setup Ansible Control Node on Ubuntu in Azure (Run Playbooks, Create Inventory)
How to Setup Ansible Control Node on Azure: Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. Manage servers on Azure, other cloud platforms and on prem.
This video will show how you can setup Ansible Control Node on Azure.
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⏰Timestamps⏰
00:00 Intro Ansible on Azure
00:22 Creating Ansible on Ubuntu
01:41 Accessing SSH terminal
02:12 Verify Ansible Installations
02:29 Creating an Ansible Inventory
04:40 Creating a Ansible Playbook
05:30 Outro Ansible Control Node on Azure
🔗 Ansible Control Node Server on Ubuntu Server 20.04 Azure Marketplace listing:
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.co...
🔗 Ansible Control Node Server on CentOS Server 8.3 on Azure Marketplace listing:
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.co...
🔗 How to Setup Ansible Control Node on Azure Blog Post:
https://cloudinfrastructureservices.c...
🔗 Building an inventory (Ansible Documentation):
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/late...
🔗 Creating a playbook (Ansible Documentation):
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/late...
Ansible Features:
-Configuration Management - Easily manage all of your servers. Change the configuration of an application, OS, or device, implement security policies and so much more.
-Application Deployment - Make DevOps easier by automating the deployment of internally developed applications to your servers.
-Orchestration - Ansible uses automated workflows, provisioning, and more to make orchestrating tasks easy
-Security and Compliance - Sitewide security policies can be implemented along with other automated processes
Cloud Provisioning You can provision cloud platforms, virtualized hosts, network devices, and bare-metal servers.
-Modules - Modules are like small programs that Ansible pushes out from a control machine to all the nodes or remote hosts.
-Plugins - Ansible comes with a number of plugins to use
-Inventories - All the machines you're using with Ansible (the control machine plus nodes) are listed in a single simple file
-Playbooks - A playbook is like a recipe or an set of instructions which tells Ansible what work it has to do when it connect to new machine.