Ansible Labs - A $.02 mention on labs

[Matt Wells]

I thought I'd share something I've been doing with my group ( Las Vegas ) that's been really helping.  We have a small group with a few users who've been using Ansible for some time but mostly brand new users.  To add to that we're getting more and more network folks that want to learn about automating network devices.  We've been fortunate to have a Big-IP F5 rep in our group as well so we've been able to put together some decent labs lately.  But in those labs is the place I wanted mention what I've found beneficial.

In each of the labs I've been providing them with a Git Repo, the master branch having tasks, resources and normal items needed for the labs.  However we've a few users that no matter what will never ask for help.  I noticed a few time they left frustrated because they didn't understand a topic in the lab or talk; because of this I changed how we were doing our labs.  We'll provided the same tasks but with each task we created per-task branches with examples and answers to items they may have trouble with in the exercise.  It's a mixed bag on who just jumps to the examples but all in it's been extremely useful for those that don't wish to ask for help or say "nope, I've got it" while looking at an empty screen.  

Just thought I'd share - 

Matt Wells