Ansible 101 - Episode 2 - Ad-hoc tasks and Inventory

Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) dives deeper into Ansible, looking at ad-hoc tasks and inventory groups, for managing multiple servers in groups with Ansible modules. This episode demonstrates ad-hoc command usage and multi-server inventories with Vagrant, following chapters 3 and 4 in the bestselling Ansible book, Ansible for DevOps. Buy Ansible for DevOps: https://www.ansiblefordevops.com Sponsor Jeff on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Support Jeff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Contents: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:52 - Free books for April 00:05:31 - Intro to ad-hoc commands 00:10:00 - Multi-VM Vagrant configuration 00:20:04 - Multi-host inventory 00:28:53 - ad-hoc orchestration 00:31:16 - Forks and parallelization 00:37:14 - Setup module 00:46:32 - Becoming root with sudo 00:50:01 - ansible-doc CLI docs 00:55:13 - Targeting inventory groups 01:00:25 - Outtro