Jeff Geerling | You did WHAT with Ansible?! @JeffGeerling | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 23 seconds ago.
You can automate almost anything with Ansible. But should you?

I'll talk about a few of the stranger things I've automated with Ansible, from setting up my Mac, to generating HTML for a website!

Just because you _can_ automate something with Ansible doesn't mean you _should_. But sometimes it's okay.

Mentioned in the video:

- My book: ansiblefordevops.com
- Internet Pi: github.com/geerlingguy/internet-pi
- Drupal Pi: github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-pi
- Ansible Requirements Updater: github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-requirements-updater
- Mac Dev Playbook: github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook
- My Ansible Website (HTML): ansible.jeffgeerling.com

Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/geerlingguy
Sponsor me on GitHub: github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy
Merch: redshirtjeff.com

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Contents:

00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Session start
01:57 - Jeff's rule of golden hammers
03:27 - Automating my homelab
04:55 - Internet Pi
08:51 - HTML Templating
12:21 - Ansible requirements updater
16:37 - Mac setup playbook
20:26 - Takeaways