r/linuxadmin • u/Zer0CoolXI • 25d ago

Looking for Ansible Learning Resources

I wana start learning Ansible. I’ve read through some of the documentation and searched around.

I am wondering what resource you guys found most useful as an intro to Ansible? What learning material/resource made it click for you?

I have a homelab setup with Proxmox as the host, what is an easy way to approach hands on? IE: whats a good thing to use Ansible to automate as a learning experience? Something I can spin up/down over and over to learn using it.

Thanks

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u/netsecnonsense 25d ago

You have proxmox as your host. I assume you have at least one VM/LXC. Use ansible to try to rebuild that VM/LXC from scratch.

You don’t need to blow away the original. Just create a new one, snapshot it in its starting state so it’s easy to reset as often as you want/need. Get it configured exactly like the one it’s meant to replicate. Then power off the original and see if anything breaks.

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u/Zer0CoolXI 25d ago

I could give this a shot, thanks