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So friends, now that we have access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as our

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virtualization

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software, what we want to do is to create three different virtual machines.

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Now in the case here, we're going to have one particular virtual machine which

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is going

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to act as our Ansible Control node.

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Pretty much this is going to be the machine that is responsible for managing

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all other

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machines.

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Don't worry about the terminology too much, we'll talk about an in an upcoming

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video.

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So this is going to be the machine that is responsible for doing all the
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So this is going to be the machine that is responsible for doing all the

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automation.

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And quite simply Ansible is just software that we're going to install on a Red

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Hat Enterprise

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Linux machine.

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So once again, the first VM is going to be a Rail based and quite honestly, the

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next

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two machines, machines two and three are also going to be Rail based.

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Now just a point of note with respect to using Ansible, the machines that Ans

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ible manage

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do not all have to be Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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They could for example be Ubuntu, they could be Rocky Linux, whatever it may be

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.

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The reason why we're using two more additions of Rail has quite simply on the
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The reason why we're using two more additions of Rail has quite simply on the

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examination,

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you can expect to be managing and dealing with Rail systems.

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So it just makes sense to have an entire lab environment all working with Rail.

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So like I say, we'll have three different Rail machines, the fourth Rail

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machine we

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will install Ansible.

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In this case here, I'm going to recommend that you install a graphical user

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interface

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based Rail machine.

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This makes things easier to operate.

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Now with respect to the machines that are going to be managed by Ansible, if

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you happen

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to be struggling for resources, then you could get away with just using a
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to be struggling for resources, then you could get away with just using a

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minimal install.

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This pretty much means that you're just going to get a basic command line

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interface, no

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nice graphics, no web browser, that type of thing.

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But honestly, it's going to be more than enough to practice working with Ans

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ible.

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Now in my case, the two other additional machines right here, I am also going

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to install them

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with a graphical user interface.

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The reason why I'm doing that is because I have plenty of resources on my

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personal computer

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and for the purposes of recording, visually for you at home watching, it just

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makes it

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nice that if you happen to be looking at a graphical user interface.
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nice that if you happen to be looking at a graphical user interface.

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But like I say, if you're struggling for resources by all means you can do that

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minimal

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install for those two.

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So let's first walk through the creation of our first machine here, which is

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going to

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have Ansible installed on it.

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So I will pull up my VMware.

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Depending if you happen to have a Windows based installation, the interface

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might look

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a little bit different, but ultimately the configurations are going to be the

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same.

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The first thing we want to do is to create a new virtual machine.

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So I will go to file here and then choose new.

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In the case here, I'm going to install from a disk or image.
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In the case here, I'm going to install from a disk or image.

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This is going to be the real image that we just downloaded in the previous

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video.

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Let's click continue.

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So in my case here, I will just choose the real image and then select continue.

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So right now we have some default settings as it transpires by default, I'm

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using 2Gig

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of RAM and 20Gig of hardware space that is going to be plenty fine for me.

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So if you so wish you can just choose finish.

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But if for example, if you happen to have more resource to despair, no harm in

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choosing

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customized settings, let's just give the device a name, which is called this
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customized settings, let's just give the device a name, which is called this

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rail control

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click save and then you can go into process as a memory.

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If you so wish you can crank the memory up to whatever you need.

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Allocate more processes that type of thing if you so wish but the default

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should suffice.

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So with that now done, I will just click play and then I'm just going to arrow

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up to actually

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install red hat enterprise Linux and just hit enter.

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Now just give it some time to boot up and load.

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Now the very first time we're going to have to do is to choose your own

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language.

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In my case here, I'm going to be selecting English and English United Kingdom,
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In my case here, I'm going to be selecting English and English United Kingdom,

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choose

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whatever is appropriate for you and then choose continue.

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Now the first thing I'm going to do is to choose the installation destination.

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Let's click this link here and then I'm going to select this 20 gig hard drive

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that I have

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cut out for this particular virtual machine.

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Once I have that highlighted, I'm going to click again to make sure I see a

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tick.

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There we go.

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And in the case here, I'm not going to worry about data encryption or storage

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configuration.

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I will leave that automatic and leave the others unchecked.

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Let me now just select done.

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So with that now done, it says automatic partition and selected.
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So with that now done, it says automatic partition and selected.

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That's a good sign.

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The next one I'm going to go to is network and host name.

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So all I want to do is to make sure this ethernet connection is toggled on

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right now.

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It's on.

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If it was off, it would be gray.

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In this case here, I want to make sure it is blue.

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Once that is done, I will now select done.

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Then I'm going to go to software selection.

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In the case here, this is going to be my Ansible control mode.

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I'm going to recommend you select server with GUI to get that graphical user

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interface.

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With respect to the other installations, when you're making machine two and
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With respect to the other installations, when you're making machine two and

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three, if you

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so wish, feel free to choose minimal install.

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I would select the graphical installation.

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So let's choose done.

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The next thing I'm going to do is to go down to root passwords.

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Let me just give a very bad password or password one, which is absolutely not

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secure.

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But nevertheless, just for lab and environments, let's just keep it simple.

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So again, I will say password one and then I will select done.

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Okay.

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So now we see the root password is set and then I will go down to user creation

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.

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Let's click this here and let's just give this a name.

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I'll just call this nugget user and I will also make this user and
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I'll just call this nugget user and I will also make this user and

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administrative.

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So we can use the pseudo commands and again, just to keep things all simple, I

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will just

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choose the password or password one.

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Like I say, never ever do this in a real live environment.

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That's just because it's a lab and any virtual machine.

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In the case here, though, I will click done.

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It gives me the warning.

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Let's click done again to accept it.

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And now what I want to do is I want to choose begin installation.

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So just give this some time to begin installing all the necessary information.

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And most it does that.

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I will just temporarily pause the video.

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Perfect. Everything has now installed.
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Perfect. Everything has now installed.

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What I will now select is reboot system and give it a moment to just reboots.

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Okay.

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So now we are presented with a login page.

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Let's click on our nugget user and I'll type in password one.

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Now the first thing it's going to say is do we want to take the tour in this

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case here.

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I'm just going to select no thanks.

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Now notice up the very top here, it says please register your system to receive

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software

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updates.

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If you want to download external packages, easiest way to simply get this done

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is to well

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register the system.

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So let's do that.
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So let's do that.

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So the first thing I will do here is just click X and I'm going to go to my

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terminal.

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Now you can probably tell that the text is very, very small.

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What I want to do is to customize things.

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So I'll go to this option here and then go down to preferences.

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I will then go to unnamed and then I'll click custom fonts.

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And then all I'm going to do is to bump up the font size.

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Then I will just choose colors.

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I will uncheck this box and then I can select my own color theme.

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So in this case here, I will just make the background black and I'll make the

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text.
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text.

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Let's say a red color since it is red at now.

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This is certainly not necessary, but just to make things a little bit easier to

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follow.

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I'm just going to rename the actual computer itself.

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So I will just say siddle hostname cTL set hyphen hostname and I will just call

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the device

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red box.

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Now I'll type in my admin password, which is going to be password one.

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Now right now the name has not changed.

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But if I happen to close the terminal, go back up to activities, open up a

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brand new

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one.

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Notice the name has now changed now with respect to registration.
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Notice the name has now changed now with respect to registration.

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We're only going to concern ourselves with registering the device that is going

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to be

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running Ansible, which in my case here is this particular machine.

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So what I'm going to do is say sudo subscription manager and then the word

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register.

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Now I'll have to type in my admin password, which is password one.

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And now what I'm going to have to do is to provide my red hat enterprise Linux

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details.

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Remember we created our accounts.

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So all I will do is type in my email associated with my red hat account, which

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in my case

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here is IPV zero.

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If I enter, what I'm now going to have to do is to provide the password that is
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If I enter, what I'm now going to have to do is to provide the password that is

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associated

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with my red hat account.

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So this is not the password one that I created on this machine.

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It's the actual password that we created when we signed up with red hat.

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So I'll type it in and to enter give it a moment to register.

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And now it says the system has been registered.

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What I now want to do is to say sudo subscription manager, attach and to enter

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and we can see

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the registration has been successful.

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Perfect.

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So if I just say sudo dnf repo list, we now have access to these particular
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So if I just say sudo dnf repo list, we now have access to these particular

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repositories.

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And now what I want to do is I want to install Ansible core.

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So let me just clear the screen and I will now say it's sudo dnf install and

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let me just

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access out to clear the screen.

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And I will just say Ansible hyphen core.

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If I hit enter, give it a moment to pull in the information, I will just say

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why and to

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enter and there we go.

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So with that now done, what I should be able to do is to say Ansible dash dash

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version.

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And we actually see the Ansible version information right here.

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Now you'll notice for the purposes of recording, just to make things a little
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Now you'll notice for the purposes of recording, just to make things a little

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bit easier on

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the eye, I changed the color of the prompt.

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But that is certainly not anything you have to worry about yourself.

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What I'm now going to do is simply shut down the machine right now.

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So if I say shut down dash H now and to enter, we have now created our control

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machine.

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Let's now quickly spin up a device that is going to be managed by Ansible.

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So let's go to fail and new once again, follow the same procedure, install

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image and just

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walk through the same type of process.

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Choose a disk.

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If you want to use a minimal install, you can reduce these resources greatly.
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If you want to use a minimal install, you can reduce these resources greatly.

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But for me, I'm just going to leave them at the defaults.

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And I will just call this rail blue box.

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The name itself doesn't actually matter, but just choose anything you so wish.

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So I'll pull this up, choose install and I'm just going to follow the same type

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of options

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and continue.

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So like I said with software selection, feel free to choose minimal install if

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you so wish.

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Same again when it comes to the root passwords.

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I'm just going to keep things really simple, choosing password one and I will

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select done

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and done again for the user creation.
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and done again for the user creation.

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I'm again going to select nugget user and again, keeping it simple, just use

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password

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one again, making this user the administrator.

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Once that's done, begin installation.

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So once again, reboot the system.

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So on this particular box, we do not have to worry about registering the system

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we have to worry about actually installing Ansible.

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And all I did on this particular device was change the host name to blue box to

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make it

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easier to follow.

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Now what I'm going to do is stop the video and in the meantime, I will create

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one more

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managed device in the exact same way that I created the blue box.
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managed device in the exact same way that I created the blue box.

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The only difference being is that it's going to have a different host name

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known as yellow

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box.

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From now, I will stop the video, continue the task and I will see you in the

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very next video

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where we talk about SSH authentication.