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Welcome to the learnyouansible wiki!

##General points:

• Emphasise declarative syntax - Maybe rerunning the playbook and getting "0 changes" can be used as a simple verification step? LearnYouNode has a nice commandline tool, but we want to focus on learning Ansible for now, rather than on building tools/platforms - that could come later?

##Suggested tasks:

###Task 1 In order to use Ansible we'll need at least one expendable server for each user to test against. The easiest way to do that is probably to set up Vagrant + a minimal box image e.g.

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/minimal/boxes/trusty64

64-bit Ubuntu Trusty (14.04.2 LTS) 397MB

or use vagrantbox to provision a server (with Ansible installed and configured).

###Subtasks:

• Install vagrant. Need to make sure it's a recent version
• Basic vagrant instructions: init,up, destroy etc

##Task 2

• Install Ansible. Need to make sure it's a recent version

##Task 3

• Create an initial vagrant+ansible install template
• Inventory file
• Playbook.yml
• vagrant up
• ansible ping

Possible References

• http://docs.ansible.com/guide_vagrant.html
• http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/ansible.html
• https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-vagrant-examples

##Task 4 - Finally doing some Ansible!

• Setting file system permissions?

##Task 5

• Installing packages (we'll need to focus on whatever distro we pick)
• Get a webserver running

Task 6

• Template files + variables

Task 7

• Roles?

Task n?

• Deploying a public git repo
• Deploying a private git repo you have access to using ssh Forward Agent
• Multi-server setup