Ansible Tutorial for Beginners | AWS DevOps Automation with Playbooks & Roles

🚀 Complete Ansible Tutorial for DevOps & AWS Engineers — from ZERO to a Real-Time Java App Deployment Project on AWS EC2! In this video, you will learn Ansible step-by-step with hands-on labs on AWS. Whether you are a DevOps beginner, AWS Cloud Engineer, or preparing for DevOps interviews, this one video covers everything — installation, inventory, playbooks, roles, variables, loops, handlers, Ansible Vault, and a real CI/CD deployment pipeline. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro – Why Ansible? (The Problem it Solves) 03:00 What is Ansible? Architecture (Control Node, Managed Nodes, Inventory, Playbook, Modules) 08:00 Push vs Pull | Ansible vs Chef vs Puppet vs Terraform 12:00 Install Ansible on AWS EC2 (Amazon Linux 2) 18:00 SSH Key Setup (passwordless authentication) 24:00 Inventory File – Groups, IPs, Variables 30:00 Ad-Hoc Commands (ping, shell, df, free) 35:00 YAML Basics + First Ansible Playbook 42:00 Install & Configure Nginx using Playbook 50:00 Common Modules – yum, apt, service, copy, template, user, file, get_url, lineinfile, debug, uri, wait_for 1:02:00 Variables, Conditionals (when), and Loops 1:12:00 Handlers – Run on Notify 1:18:00 Ansible Roles – Directory Structure & Best Practices 1:28:00 🔥 REAL PROJECT – Deploy Java Spring Boot App to AWS (Zero Downtime) 1:45:00 Ansible Vault – Encrypt Secrets for Production 1:52:00 CI/CD Pipeline Flow – Jenkins + Ansible + S3 + Slack 2:00:00 Ansible Cheat Sheet & Interview Q&A 📘 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ✅ How Ansible works (agentless, SSH, YAML) ✅ Setting up 1 Control Node + 2 Managed Nodes on AWS EC2 ✅ Writing clean, idempotent Playbooks ✅ Using Roles for production-grade project structure ✅ Real-world zero-downtime deployment with serial + load balancer hooks ✅ Securing passwords & AWS keys with Ansible Vault ✅ Ansible vs Terraform vs Chef vs Puppet – when to use which 🎯 WHO THIS VIDEO IS FOR DevOps Engineers (Fresher to Mid-level) AWS Cloud Engineers and SREs System Admins moving to automation Students preparing for DevOps interviews Anyone managing multiple Linux servers 📂 RESOURCES 📄 Full Written Guide (PDF + Word): [Attach your link] 💻 GitHub Playbooks: [Attach your link] ☁️ AWS Free Tier Setup: https://aws.amazon.com/free 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more AWS & DevOps tutorials 👍 LIKE if this helped you 💬 COMMENT your doubts – I reply to every comment! #Ansible #DevOps #AWS #AnsibleTutorial #CloudComputing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 DISCLAIMER: This tutorial is for educational purposes. Use AWS Free Tier to avoid charges. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Ansible #AnsibleTutorial #DevOps #AWS #AWSDevOps #ConfigurationManagement #Playbook #AnsibleRoles #InfrastructureAsCode #CloudAutomation #DevOpsTutorial #EC2 #Linux #YAML #AnsibleVault #CICD #Jenkins #CloudEngineer #SRE #AutomationTools #RedHat #DevOps2026 #ITAutomation #ServerAutomation #AnsibleForBeginners #AWSCloud #DevOpsEngineer #LearnDevOps #TechTutorial #ITTraining