Chapters

30 Chapters | 2:45:48 |

01

Hello Ansible!

5:53
02

Modules

6:34
03

Hosts & the Inventory File

4:45
04

Vagrant <3's Ansible

6:30
05

Create your Playbook!

3:18
06

Install Stuff: The apt Module

3:12
07

apt Package Upgrades & Requirements

6:13
08

PHP 7, Nginx & MySQL

6:09
09

Extensions, php.ini & lineinfile

7:23
10

git & Variables

5:21
11

Installing Composer & the script Module

6:45
12

Installing Composer Deps

4:31
13

Nginx Configuration & Ansible Templates

7:24
14

Handlers: For Handling Serious Biz

7:12
15

Cache Permissions

2:19
16

Symfony Console Commands

5:38
17

Tagging Tasks

4:46
18

Idempotency, changed_when & Facts

6:48
19

vars_prompt & Environment Variables

5:38
20

pre_tasks and set_fact

6:35
21

Faster Smarter Playbook

5:48
22

Skipping Tasks based on Changed

3:01
23

Organizing with include

2:10
24

Organizing into Roles

7:37
25

Using a 3rd Party to Install Redis

4:36
26

Variables and parameters.yml

3:06
27

The Variable Vault

7:22
28

Deploy to AWS!

6:06
29

Host Group Vars

3:30
30

Launch a Cloud Instance!

9:43

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Ricardo 8 years ago edited

A fantastic course, entertaining and too useful. Thank you very much there

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Victor SFCASTS Ricardo 8 years ago

Hey Ricardo,

I'm happy you like it! ;)

Btw, you may be interested in our another Ansible courses called Ansistrano: https://knpuniversity.com/s... . Check it out if you're interested in deploying apps with Ansible.

Cheers!

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Ricardo Victor 8 years ago

Dammit, Victor, I got my hands dirty around with deploy helper and I have done deploy and rollback, anyhow I'll check Ansistrano

BTW: I use it to deploy my Laravel app

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Victor SFCASTS Ricardo 8 years ago

Hey Ricardo,

Haha, oh man, we used to have an old creppy deploy on KnpU using rsync, but then finally migrated to the Ansistrano - now deploys are much much easier and clearer. And now we have zero-downtime deploys!

It should fit just fine for any web app, very similar to Capistrano strategy in case your heard about it.

Cheers!

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Numerogeek 8 years ago

Great tutorial ! But it miss some stuff IMO :
- Clone a git repo that's private
- Secure some stuff (Iptables, Fail2ban, etc...)
- create the mysq user instead of the root one
What do you think ?

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Victor SFCASTS Numerogeek 8 years ago

Hey Numerogeek,

Thanks! About topics you mentioned:

> Clone a git repo that's private

We covered it in the Ansistrano tutorial, see: https://knpuniversity.com/s...

> Secure some stuff (Iptables, Fail2ban, etc...)

Yeah, those topics are were not covered, I think those are slightly pro level and not all our users know what is Iptables, Fail2ban, etc. And we didn't want to explain server terminology too much here to avoid blowups of this course which is about Ansible, not about administrating Linux servers :) BTW, Ansible has Iptables module, see: https://docs.ansible.com/an... - and we do explain what is Ansible module and how to use it in your playbooks. So if you know what is Iptables exactly - you can easily handle it by yourself.

> create the mysq user instead of the root one

We mostly talk about MySQL on VirtualBox so it's not a big deal to use root user - makes life easier during development, and thanks to expanded permissions we're able to create DB and schema with Symfony console commands. But yeah, that's a good point to keep in mind when deploy to production.

Cheers!

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Josiah 8 years ago

Thanks Victor for your generosity. This has removed the ansible 'cloud' from my eyes... completely. Let me head straight to Ansistrano

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Victor SFCASTS Josiah 8 years ago

Hey Josiah,

You would like it! It's a cool and very flexible tool :)

Cheers!

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Agnes 8 years ago

So I got this error...

InvalidParameterCombination: VPC security groups may not be used for a non-VPC launch

Fixed by adding a vpc_subnet_id from the vpc of the security group.

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Victor SFCASTS Agnes 8 years ago

Hey Maria,

Thanks for sharing this with us!

Cheers!

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This tutorial is built using an older version of Symfony, but the core concepts of Ansible are still valid. New versions of Ansible may contain some features that we don't use here.

Symfony 3 Ansible 2.1

What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

// composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.5.9",
        "symfony/symfony": "3.1.*", // v3.1.4
        "doctrine/orm": "^2.5", // v2.7.2
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "^1.6", // 1.6.4
        "doctrine/doctrine-cache-bundle": "^1.2", // 1.3.0
        "symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "^2.3", // v2.3.11
        "symfony/monolog-bundle": "^2.8", // 2.11.1
        "symfony/polyfill-apcu": "^1.0", // v1.2.0
        "sensio/distribution-bundle": "^5.0", // v5.0.12
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "^3.0.2", // v3.0.16
        "incenteev/composer-parameter-handler": "^2.0", // v2.1.2
        "doctrine/doctrine-migrations-bundle": "^1.2", // v1.2.0
        "snc/redis-bundle": "^2.0", // 2.0.0
        "predis/predis": "^1.1", // v1.1.1
        "composer/package-versions-deprecated": "^1.11" // 1.11.99
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "sensio/generator-bundle": "^3.0", // v3.0.8
        "symfony/phpunit-bridge": "^3.0", // v3.1.4
        "doctrine/data-fixtures": "^1.1", // 1.3.3
        "hautelook/alice-bundle": "^1.3" // v1.4.1
    }
}

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