Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) dives deeper into Ansible, exploring the basic unit of automation, Ansible Playbooks. This episode will follow material from chapters 3 and 4 in the bestselling Ansible book, Ansible for DevOps. Buy Ansible for DevOps:  Sponsor Jeff on GitHub:  Support Jeff on Patreon:  Contents: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:25 - Questions from last episode 00:08:20 - Multi-host ad-hoc orchestration 00:19:02 - Using different modules ad-hoc 00:24:38 - Intro to Playbooks 00:28:18 - Comparing to shell scripts 00:32:35 - Moving commands into YAML playbooks 00:39:28 - Making playbooks more Ansible-ish 00:53:02 - Running the Apache playbook 00:56:24 - Limiting playbook runs to specific servers 01:00:14 - Outtro