Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) introduces Ansible in the first episode of a new live-streaming series "Ansible 101 with Jeff Geerling." Jeff walks through installing Ansible, running tasks on a remote AWS EC2 instance using Ansible ad-hoc tasks, integrating Ansible with Vagrant to build local Virtual Machines (VMs), and then teaches you how to write your first Ansible playbook! This video follows material from chapters 1 and 2 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 00:01:47 - Preface and Info about Ansible for DevOps 00:07:51 - Ansible Background 00:17:43 - Installing Ansible 00:20:55 - Connecting to a Server with Ansible 00:26:50 - Using an ansible.cfg file 00:28:57 - Running ad-hoc commands 00:33:36 - Vagrant Intro 00:45:24 - First Ansible Playbook 00:51:47 - Idempotence 00:56:56 - Importance of naming tasks 01:01:18 - Chat questions answered 01:02:56 - Outtro