In this demo, we walked through setting up an Ansible playbook to log into AWS, create a snapshot of a given EC2 instance and create a new one based on the original one.

Setting up Ansible With the theory part out of the way, it’s time to deploy an Ansible control node on your home lab.

I'm writing some playbooks to set up an XMPP server and that requires a couple of DNS entries. I have my playbook working on Route 53, but I'd like to make this usable for people who might not be ...