Finish tutorial!

[arnuschky]

Hey there. I really enjoyed this tutorial - great work! A pity that it stops when it becomes really interesting! Could you continue writing it, please? :)

[leucos]

Thanks for the kinds words @arnuschky
Indeed, I have to keep up, but time lacks by now. The good part is that I'm doing lot's of ansible these days, so I might come up with ideas when I'll get back to this tutorial.

[eproxus]

If some more chapters were specified, with more fine grained outlines, people might be more inclined to help out writing some parts?

[leucos]

I like your suggestion @eproxus . I was working on an iptables chapter. However, I think that exploring roles a bit deeper could be more interesting. So I'll probably make the next chapter about tags and another about roles dependencies (replacing apache with nginx + php5-fpm).
If you guys have suggestions on topics, I'd be glad to hear them.
Please comment here.

[eproxus]

What I found useful to know about in Ansible:

• Setting up user accounts and SSH keys (for servers that only come with root accounts)
• Vault files for sensitive information
• Overriding variables on the command line
• How to debug playbooks (using the debug command, -vvvv and tags to limit runs)
• Local playbooks (using localhost as a target)
  • Setting up hosts on EC2
• Using an inventory script to access EC2 hosts
• How to use custom plugins
• How to use Galaxy roles

Some of this might be covered already.

[leucos]

• Setting up user accounts and SSH keys (for servers that only come with root accounts)

I'd say this one is demonstrated (but not explained) in step-00.

• Vault files for sensitive information

Ok. #62

• Overriding variables on the command line

Don't know if this deserves a chapter per-se. May be a Nuts&Bolts chapter ?

• How to debug playbooks (using the debug command, -vvvv and tags to limit runs)

Much needed ! #63

• Local playbooks (using localhost as a target)

May be showing delegation would be enough ? #60

• Setting up hosts on EC2
• Using an inventory script to access EC2 hosts

This could be the grand finale for the tutorial ?

• How to use custom plugins

Ok. #61

• How to use Galaxy roles

I'm not currently using galaxy. Since we're focusing on writing ansible playbook, I'm not sure we need this here ?

[eproxus]

Setting up user accounts and SSH keys (for servers that only come with root accounts)

I'd say this one is demonstrated (but not explained) in step-00.

I meant setting up user accounts on the remote machine.

Overriding variables on the command line

Don't know if this deserves a chapter per-se. May be a Nuts&Bolts chapter ?

I have some playbooks that are always parameterized. Maybe we could find such a use case? Like, set up a new virtual host in Nginx: ansible-playbook create_host.yml --env="host=myhost.com"?

Local playbooks (using localhost as a target)

May be showing delegation would be enough ? #60

What is delegation?

This would also be showcased in the EC2 section otherwise. Perhaps that is enough.

Setting up hosts on EC2
Using an inventory script to access EC2 hosts

This could be the grand finale for the tutorial ?

Yeah, or an Appendix A.

How to use Galaxy roles

I'm not currently using galaxy. Since we're focusing on writing ansible playbook, I'm not sure we need this here ?

I would also put this in a "grand finale" section, or Appendix B. 😄