Automating Virtual Machines with Ansible

Automating virtual machines is a great way to reduce the amount of time spent with point and click activities managing your virtual infrastructure. Using an automation tool like Ansible, we can automate processes such as installing Windows features and components, changing registry keys, applying updates, configuring Linux packages and updates, setting network configuration, and even in bootstrapping environments that have yet to have network connectivity configured.

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Introduction – 0:00
What is Ansible? – 0:35
An overview of my Ansible environment – 1:04
Looking at the Ansible folders and files for virtual machine automation – 2:39
The inventory.yml file – 3:10
The group vars configuration – 4:13
Ansible playbook tasks – 5:15
Running your Ansible playbook – 5:58
Verifying changes have been made in Windows from the Ansible playbook – 7:20
Concluding thoughts about Ansible for automation – 7:46

Deploying Ansible in a Docker container:

https://4sysops.com/archives/how-to-deploy-ansible-inside-a-docker-container/

Detailed Ansible posts and howtos I have written:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2021/02/automated-vmsa-2021-002-esxi-workaround-with-ansible/
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2021/01/ansible-hashicorp-vault-storing-vcenter-password/
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2021/01/ansible-provisioning-vmware-with-vmware_guest-example/
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/07/ansible-deploy-multiple-vm-from-template-vmware/

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