Hey All - I’m fairly new to Ansible and have managed to setup some playbooks in my work to interact with a few different REST APIs to perform some automation. I’m running the playbooks on localhost as it doesn’t need to execute across multiple hosts. Would you say this is the correct way to use Ansi…

Hey, Would you say this is the correct way to use Ansible? There is no wrong way to use Ansible IMO, though there are definitively best practices to observe and pitfalls to avoid. Anyways, this is 100% legit usage; tasks doesn’t necessarily need to run against remote machines, it all depends on…

Hello! What @ptn has mentioned is absolutely correct, and I wouldn’t change a single word :slight_smile: However, I’d like to enhance his explanation by including two helpful diagrams that greatly assisted me when I started teaching basic Ansible a few months ago. Firstly, there’s the scenario of l…

Hey @ptn - thanks a lot really appreciate the response! I look forward to exploring more and use this community for any more advice! :smiley:

Hey @jbericat - thanks a lot really appreciate the response! I look forward to exploring more and use this community for any more advice! :smiley:

Hi @max , a few resources that you might find useful: The @Docs Working Group recently rebumped the getting started section with user journeys . You might find that page useful. The specific “ Getting started with Ansible ” docs page is a good first read. We have the “ Writing your first playbook ” int…

Many thanks @Leo this is great!

Running playbooks targeting localhost is perfectly fine. It’s also bread-n-butter for testing Jinja pipelines and data management ideas, and for reproducing issues others present on forums like this when you’re ready to have a go at helping out other folks. However, until you’ve experienced watchin…

This is one of those times when I wish we could mark more than one post as the solution but… @max could you perhaps pick one to tick? If so, it would be super helpful if you could click the :heavy_check_mark: on their post to accept the solution - it recognises the input of others, helps our volunt…

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