Ansible is not only a near-instantaneous, superluminal, interstellar communication device, it’s also Earth's most popular solution for multi-cloud automation. In this session, we will create live code playbooks that let you deploy your application workloads across multiple Infrastructure-as-a-Service (aka cloud) players. This session is mostly focused on getting you started, but there will also be numerous tips and best practices that Ansible veterans will enjoy.

1. A QUICK INTRO TO ANSIBLE
Adam Miller
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Ansible Engineering

2. QUICK INTRODUCTION
WAIT, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT ANSIBLE IS?
Ansible is an automation tool
● Ansible is a simple agentless idempotent task automation tool
○ By default, tasks are executed in-order but we can change that if we want.
● Tasks are performed via modules
● Tasks are grouped together via plays
○ Also via roles, which are reusable sets of plays we can pass variables to
■ Many of these are shared publicly on Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com)
○ A play operates on a set of hosts
● Playbooks can contain one or many plays
● Plays nicely with "traditional" configuration management systems
○ There's even a puppet module!

3. QUICK INTRODUCTION
WAIT, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT ANSIBLE IS?
Module: yum
Arguments: name=bash state=installed
$ ansible localhost -m yum -a "name=bash state=installed"
localhost | SUCCESS => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "Nothing to do"
}

4. QUICK INTRODUCTION
WAIT, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT ANSIBLE IS?
Module: yum
Arguments: name=bash state=installed
playbook.yml
---
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- yum:
name: bash
state: installed

5. USING ANSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING
WHY WOULD I WANT TO DO THAT?
Ansible is a simple automation tool that can:
● Execute tasks on one or many hosts
● Orchestrate an otherwise complex order of operations, even conditionally based on
system facts or variables provided at runtime.
● Custom modules can be written in any programming language with JSON support
Question of the day:
What are you trying to accomplish that could be automated?

6. USING ANSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING
ANSIBLE ALL THE THINGS!!!!
Things you might be trying to automate:
● Configuration Management?
● Provision Virtual Machines or IaaS instances?
● Test software?
● Automate workflows?
● Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment?
● Configure hardware switches, routers, and load balancers?
● Replace terrible shell scripts that have survived too long already?
● Other?
ANSIBLE CAN DO ALL OF THAT! (AND MUCH MORE)

7. ANSIBLE IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
ANSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING
DEV NETWORK IT OPERATIONSBUSINESS

8. USEFUL LINKS
WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?
● https://docs.ansible.com/
● https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/scenario_guides/cloud_guides.html
● https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/ansible/
● https://galaxy.ansible.com/
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