A sample VM for "Your first commands"

[Nathan Sowatskey]

Hi

As I am working through the "Your first commands" section, it strikes me that a sample VM, based on VirtualBox and built by Vagrant, say, could make it easier to create a sample environment to practice that section, and later sections also.

Has anyone created such a VM for practicing with Ansible?

Many thanks

Nathan

[Jesús Alfredo Cambera]

Hello Nathan,

I think you'd be interested on the ansible series of sysadmin cast:

• https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/43-19-minutes-with-ansible-part-1-4
  
• https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/45-learning-ansible-with-vagrant-part-2-4
  
• https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/46-configuration-management-with-ansible-part-3-4
  
• https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/47-zero-downtime-deployments-with-ansible-part-4-4
  

On the first episode you'll find the steps on how to create a testing environment for ansible playbook. I used this to learn the basics and it helped me am lot.

Hope it helps,

Alfredo

[Nathan Sowatskey]

Gracias Alfredo, and apologies for the delayed response.

The second episode(https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/45-learning-ansible-with-vagrant-part-2-4) has the discussion I was after.

I wonder why the Ansible team don't pre-package something similar in these instructions?

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_getting_started.html

Regards

Nathan