as always, ever so informative and aspiring for us, homelab admins... Thanks, Chris. Keep up the great work 👍

Excellent video. As you mentioned, it would be nice to have a video about GIT and the differences between github and gitlab, also selfhosted options like gitea. So far your content is rock solid and already a source of knowledge that i use for reference on my homelab adventures.

Deine Videos und deine Arbeit liefern so viel Mehrwert. DANKE CHRISTIAN !

Awesomeness! Thanks for the very useful presentation Christian. Ansible is so powerful and useful.

This is something that’s been on my “to look into” list for about a year now , thanks for the video

Great vid. Thank you. Exactly what I was searching for! A github tutorial vid would be very helpful for homelab networkers, engineers and hobby it-fans!

Great video as always! And YES. I would LOVE a GIT tutorial. I still have not fully wrapped my head around that!

I have been putting off Anisble. Until now. Thanks Christian!

Thanks for this. I stumbled upon this the other week and was something I wanted to setup, and hoped would be easier to use ansible with. Also a big yes please to a nice git tutorial, that would be fantastic.

This is exactly what I have been looking for... Now my week is booked for Ansible.

Seems almost like an AWX/Ansible Tower light version. Nice video as always. Thanks for all you do for us!

Awesome video as usual. Thank you Chris🍻

Great video Christian, I’m installing this tomorrow!

Thank you Christian your work is really appreciated.

Thank you, this was useful. I don't use too much UIs but this is really cool.

i used this about 6 years ago in its very early beta-alpha version :D nice to see it matured so much..

Thanks for the demo/review of Semaphore. Have heard of it, but not used it. Will have to give it a look for home use. It does appear to be something of AWX-lite.

thanks for the demo and update, have a great day

Wonderful, this video is just as I got into Ansible. I would really love a video on Git with specifics for the Ops guys, how does it improve the usual processes

Thank you for sharing this! For awhile, I was using AWX and then switched to Rundeck when AWX moved to requiring k8s. But while Rundeck is great and I love it, it's a little overkill. This fits the bill perfectly!

@Bver69

6 ай бұрын

I have been running semaphore for over a year and it’s been rock solid in terms of executing scheduled tasks and it’s very light weight. However it has a few annoying bugs that haven’t been fixed that impact me so I’m actually evaluating rundeck. I also like that rundeck can do more than just ansible but hate that it uses Java and takes 2 GB of memory out of the box with no tasks running. That’s like 4x the memory of my next most memory hungry container. It feels bulky to run in docker which is a shame.

Thank U master…. I appreciate your videos 🎉🎉🎉

I’m using it from the last year. Great tool for sysadmins and devops teams 👍

That's a good idea the Git Video! Thanks for this tutorial, I'm gonna use this at my job ahah!

As always you post great videos.. excellent app.. I will start to use it

your channel is gold

Great video Chris, a Git video would also be great. Thanks

Thank you for this video. I am currently running ubuntu on my servers and managing updates with canonical landscape. This is exactly what i searched for because i am moving my servers from ubuntu to debian and needed an easy tool to automate my updates and some other tasks. As always a verry good and informative video. Vielen Dank

@christianlempa

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed watching it :)

Appreciate the info as always 🙏

This was very useful. Thanks so much for sharing!

@christianlempa

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great video. I have used AWX (Ansible Tower open source) and also Rundeck as Ansible controllers before. All are great and have good features, but this looks very cool! Thanks for sharing Christian, I will try out for my home setup.

@KristianKirilov

9 ай бұрын

Sorry just wondering why you need both of them? AWX is not able to act as a controller?

@alakhniranjan716

Ай бұрын

Sir, I am novice here what is your experience with AWX vs RunDeck vs this tool Semaphore?

@chrisgrigor1234

5 күн бұрын

@@KristianKirilov Why do you need both? Because Rundeck is more than just a workflow tool, I use it to build AMI's, create infrastructure with Terraform, docker builds and anything that an admin can do I automate it, that's why.

Amazing! As always!

@christianlempa

7 ай бұрын

Thanks again!

Very nice. This could be a great way to help a team of sysadmins not having to worry too much about routine tasks. And yes, I would like to see a video on git. 😅

Hi Chris... YES absolutely... We all would LOVE you do a tutorial on GIT... Please !!!

awesome, will check it out soon.

What a great video, I love it. Not sure if someone covered it already, but the demo at the end referred to UPDATING the apt packages, but it actually UPGRADED them. Big difference in the apt world. One is checking for available updates while the other is applying them. I was surprised when you checked on one of the servers and found that no upgrades were pending.

I've used Semaphore for almost a year now, it lack some docs and some functions but other than that it is a nice GUI for Ansible playbooks. Note that i use it at work in small scale (for now). The server is easy to install and maintain, friendly GUI, nice to have the Ansible code in a repository (otherwise people just hack in the terminal/manual work).

Great video, I would also love to see a "Git for Sys Admins" type video!

Yes pleasee, I would really like a video on gitops explaining basic concepts (maybe with demos). Also Nomad, there aren't many videos about it

Great vid as always and informative. I have dabbled with ansible a few times and keep navigating back to command line. This is enough to roll one out again and see. Question - are your playbooks available on your GitHub anywhere? I love a good set of playbooks to beg, steal, borrow :)

well done. great vid. go forward with automation ;-)

This project has come a long way in the last couple years

Thanks Christian!

I like to understand better how git works!! Great video BTW!

That T-Shirt is awesome

@christianlempa

3 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, thanks :D It's indeed amazing

Thanks alot Christian 🤞

Now we need Web UI for Terraform

Legend! Thanks for the video.

@christianlempa

Жыл бұрын

Thanks :D

Hi Christian, vielen Dank für diese geile Software. Meinen heutigen Arbeitstag habe ich damit verbracht, alle scripte umzubauen und Semaphore zu pflegen. Jetzt darf meine Endlosliste in RoyalTSX verschwinden

@christianlempa

Жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank für deinen Support! Freut mich sehr dass dir das Video auch auf der Arbeit weitergeholfen hat 😊🙏

A GIT tutorial would be very helpful. Had problems to integrate it with Ansible.

Nice video, I started use semaphone.

Great video, Christian! I have already automated most of my machines in my homelab with ansible. Mostly using ansible-pull in order to avoid the need of a central server that controls all the ansible playbooks. Because that's what puzzles me the most when thinking of tools like Semaphore: you need a machine to install it on, preferably using Docker, and you also mentioned that it is recommended to have it behind Traefik or Nginx. I fully agree. But that raises the chicken and egg question. I want every machine in my network to be controlled and configured by Ansible playbooks, including my reverse proxy, and even the Semaphore server itself 🤪

@christianlempa

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a problem :D I think you should have the rev proxy already in place.

@autohmae

Жыл бұрын

Well, you put the files on your laptop and deploy the server ones to install some git server, webserver, docker, ansible, etc. After that log into this and connect it to the same server and put the files in a repo and delete the old files from laptop.

Great video! TY!

Hi, Christian Unfortunately, since Red Hat has been taken over by IBM, it is no longer possible to use Red Hat products. Especially Ansible Tower, but this semaphore looks very good and has good features You also showed this in the best possible way Thank you very much🙏👌🙏👌💪

Thanks for sharing, great stuff 👍👍. A github vid would be highly appreciated. As you mentioned it's not very intuitive learning all the different tasks and steps, at least for me.

This is so cool!

New subscriber here absolutely love the content. Also I concur I work in IT and Dark mode is everywhere for me 😂

It's basically Jenkins/Gitlab Pipeline focused only on Ansible. Change my mind!!!

@cuneiformemx3563

7 ай бұрын

Yes but with Maintained software and no legacy and vulnerable code…

8:04 "real IT guys should never work without Dark Mode" this is actually true 💯, i enjoy your videos more coz even the background behind you is dark 🌙

@christianlempa

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Hi, thank for the video! A video on how to deploy a self-hosted sentry would be great

loveeeeddd itttt❤

While I like Semaphore I'm much more into AWX, I like it's Operator and its Kubernetes integration. It will spin up a new container for any playbook run. You can create custom runners with custom ansible galaxy roles and stuff, too. It's pretty slick.

Hey Christian, thanks for finding this... very interesting. Given this is sponsored by teleport, how would you use this with teleport providing the access? I'm very interested in how that would work.

Great Video!!! Please do the Git video you mentioned. That would be a huge help!

+1 for Git video

That is really cool. TY

Protip: make ansible-lint a habit. It will improve your playbooks and catch bugs early

You are a GOLD !!!

Very informative

@christianlempa

10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Great video as always ! In a homelab setup, this is really great but in a professional context, the constraint of having the ansible binary on the semaphone server is so unfortunate. The flexibility to have a remote ansible runner is so much more powerfull and unlocks the ability to use different ansible versions. This is particularly useful when u have large teams that each maintain a bunch of playbooks and don't have the time or resources to all conform to a specific ansible version. Remote ansible runners also allows u to manage client infrastructure so much more easily.

@christianlempa

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I think the target group for Ansible Semaphore is really the small lightweight environment, where this might not be a big deal. But sure, that type of feature would be awesome.

@Roflmane

6 ай бұрын

as of today you can use runners

Hi Chris, great video! Quick question, for some of our devices that are on LTE we can't ssh, is there any way around that? maybe using another connection plugin that's not ssh?

Hi Chris, great video. Would you be able to cover Ansible AWX? I think it would be beneficial for the community since that project is used more in enterprise setups than this. Anything else keep up the great work love the vids.

@BenjaminArntzen

Жыл бұрын

AWX is also a total pain to host and use :)

@ThePswiegers

Жыл бұрын

@@BenjaminArntzen 2% less pain on rancher .... lol

@crackpippi

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePswiegers s/less/more/ 😞

@Gilgwathir

Жыл бұрын

Not sure whether AWX/Tower is worth the trouble in a homelab. It's intended for environments where auditing, enforcement, privilege seperation etc. are a concern. In a homelab you are usually the only one making changes, you know who screwed up, if something is wrong. You are provisioning the hardware, the VMs and containers, you write the configs etc. Although I sometimes whish for it, but no tool can protect me from my own stupidity. There's no one arround who knows better and AWX doesn't change that. It does solve one problem though: in a sufficiently hardned environment you don't want to do all the admin work from your workstation. You'll want to do that from a jump host. AWX/Tower can be that jump host, but just SSHing into a small VM, pulling the latest versions of your playbooks and running them by hand is way simpler.

@elrus0o

Жыл бұрын

@@BenjaminArntzen if you use the latest version of tower you can run with only one docker run command....AWX in latest version is another story

I worked out "git for sysadmins" the hard way by trial and error and pestering some of our developers when I got stuck but video resource to point new team members to would be amazing. You should do it :)

+1 for a git video!

Hi Chris, This is very helpful for beginners like me. Thanks. I could not find the sample file under the boilerplates/ansible/installation repo. Have they move to a diff folder?

Yes, I want this video about git

Would have been nice to see something about dynamic inventory. Use cases: terraform -> ansible, or maas -> ansible.

Would love a Git video

I would like to see a Git tutorial :) , great video.

What dashboard are you using in 4:47 ? Nice video !

Thank you for the great explanation. 😊 Could you advise how to run playbooks through the JUMP server? Is it possible in the Semaphore?

Hi Christian, I'm not sure if you did this on purpose, but the playbooks you mentioned are only in the ansiblesemaphore branch, not the main(default) one. Looks like some folks are looking for them, based on the comments below.

Hi Chris, I would find it very useful to have a github tutorial, especially I noticed during this video how you created your apt update script in your git video's repository from your vscode, the linking here would be really helpful to me. Thx Andrew

Thanks Noho Hank!

Was just wondering what you matrix looking background is for your mac?

I would love to see you make a video on Git!

Hi Chris , do you have any playbook examples on only upgrading security patches for ubuntu servers specifically ?

bro... I was searching for this

@christianlempa

3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped :)

what kind of storagetechnology do you use for your kubernetes environment in your homelab? local, nfs or ceph/rbd???

Hey Chris, great video. Can you please shed some light on using CLI arguments in ansible-semahpore? I have a requirement wherin I have to use overriding CLI arguments. It would be very helpfull if you give me more info on this or if you could point me to a video. Thanks in advance.

Yes please Git Videos!

AWX while maybe a bit more complex has more features and is backed by Red Hat so development is going to keep expanding and improving it

A GIT tutorial would be very helpful.

A good alternative I use is Rundeck 👍

Hi Chris, I really enjoy always your videos. I was just thinking how this is different to AWX or Jenkins ?

@denguk

Жыл бұрын

It much easier

We can do all the things Ansible semaphore can do and a bit more with Jenkins tbh :) The semaphore UI definitely looks cooler, I'll give it that. :)

nice shirt sir!!

I would absolutely love a github tutorial, i'm not a developer but i would love to know how to make use of it for my linux vm's and docker containers etc

Have just installed Semaphore and tested a couple of playbooks, it's awesome! It's really friendly and quickly understandable, and convenient for running scheduled playbooks. I first watched about it on your channel, thank you! :))) p.s. you're cute :)))

@christianlempa

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊

I would like to know how you set Ansible to notify you when a server needs a restart after update/upgrade

Very neat! I'm just starting to learn more about Ansible as I don't really deploy new containers/VMs all that often, but it would be nice to be able to automate and synchronise my user accounts, post install, to SSSD. Thank you.