Automation

3 Ansible playbooks, 2 DO droplets, and a website... in a pear tree 🎄

3 Ansible playbooks, 2 DO droplets, and a website... in a pear tree 🎄

Running through another of Erika's Ansible posts with example playbooks, creating a few pointless ones of my own, and discovering just how easy it is to deploy a website running on Apache!

Hands-on Ansible, using two DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets

Hands-on Ansible, using two DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets

Today I'm wrapping my head around a build tool called Ansible, used for deploying machines in a scriptable, repeatable manner. Follow along as I step through an excellent tutorial from DigitalOcean, applying what I learn to a couple DO Ubuntu VMs... the $5/mo ones - nothing fancy needed!