# A sample VM for "Your first commands"

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-sample-vm-for-your-first-commands/19316>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-sample-vm-for-your-first-commands/19316 "2015-09-21T15:29:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Sowatskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4da419/32.png) [@Nathan\_Sowatskey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nathan_Sowatskey)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-sample-vm-for-your-first-commands/19316/1 "2015-09-21T15:29:53Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Jesus\_Alfredo\_Camber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jesus\_Alfredo\_Camber](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jesus_Alfredo_Camber)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-sample-vm-for-your-first-commands/19316/2 "2015-09-22T01:10:29Z")

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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/43-19-minutes-with-ansible-part-1-4)

- [https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/45-learning-ansible-with-vagrant-part-2-4](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/46-configuration-management-with-ansible-part-3-4)

- [https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/47-zero-downtime-deployments-with-ansible-part-4-4](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

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Sowatskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4da419/32.png) [@Nathan\_Sowatskey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nathan_Sowatskey)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-sample-vm-for-your-first-commands/19316/3 "2015-09-29T13:18:22Z")

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Gracias Alfredo, and apologies for the delayed response.

The second episode([https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/45-learning-ansible-with-vagrant-part-2-4](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsysadmincasts.com%2Fepisodes%2F45-learning-ansible-with-vagrant-part-2-4&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE2Rl97DMbEX1RpHwibLKjC7OJevw)) 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](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_getting_started.html)

Regards

Nathan