[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":370},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-21106202":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":9,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":33,"aspects":34,"strip":38,"post_text":41,"what":42,"said":66,"maker_in_thread":189,"shape":200,"grid":205,"attempts":331,"same_week":332,"maker_shows":191,"maker_hidden":361,"reader_version":362,"card":363},"21106202","Ansible Crash Course","Hi Everyone.","post","Show HN: Ansible Crash Course",null,"movedx",1569751969,2019,160,53,252,2195,12,"notable","learning_science","online course","web_app",[23,24,25,26],"ansible","configuration management","ansible tutorial","devops","mixed",0.139,{"positive":30,"neutral":30,"mixed":31,"critical":32},6,0,3,15,{"docs":35,"design":36,"privacy":37},{"positive":30,"critical":32},{"positive":31,"critical":31},{"positive":31,"critical":31},[31,31,31,32,31,31,39,31,31,31,39,31,31,40,40,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,40,32,32,31,32,32,32,39,31,31,40,31,40,40],1,5,"Hi Everyone.\n\nMy name is Mike. I've created a free Ansible Crash Course. It's a course aimed at people who are new to Ansible and want to get up and running quickly. It goes into a fair amount of detail on most topics, but should something be missing just let me know and I'll add it in.\n\nAny and all help would be greatly appreciated! Just note an email address is required to register for the course - this is a limitation of the platform I'm using to host the course. Sorry about that!\n\nThe course can be found over here: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thecloud.coach\u002Fansible-crash-course\n\nAny and all feedback is gr",{"problem":43,"audience":48,"pricing":52,"motivation":9,"time_to_build":56,"stack":62,"openness":63,"stage":64,"team_size":65},{"value":44,"source":45,"evidence":46},"Getting new users up and running with Ansible quickly","maker",[47],{"id":7},{"value":49,"source":45,"evidence":50},"People new to Ansible",[51],{"id":7},{"value":53,"source":45,"evidence":54},"Free",[55],{"id":7},{"value":57,"source":45,"evidence":58},"About a week of work",[59],{"id":60,"by":10,"text":61},"21111426","About a week of work :-)",[],"free","launched","solo",{"praise":67,"objections":83,"requests":118,"questions":145,"alternatives":167},[68,76],{"value":69,"source":70,"evidence":71},"Well constructed, comprehensive course","commenter",[72],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"21111148","coderinsg","well constructed course! Comprehensive. Thanks for the effort, I bet you spent lots of time into it.",{"value":77,"source":70,"evidence":78},"Videos are short and focused",[79],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"21110651","commandercheng","I agree, you have done a very good job keeping the videos short and focused. We use Ansible my job, and it's always been a bit of a dark art to me. Very much appreciate these…",[84,103,111],{"value":85,"source":70,"evidence":86},"Videos are hard to use as reference; no copyable code or transcript",[87,91,95,99],{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"21108012","kstenerud","This won't be really helpful to you since you've already built it, but I'm the kind of person who doesn't like videos. I AM interested in Ansible, but I don't want to sit through…",{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"21108450","h1d","Absolutely no to videos. Can't easily tell what's where when I want to jump to a certain section, no result from web search for the contents and can't even copy paste any…",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"21108467","scaryclam","If it's a video, I'm very likely to just hit the back button. I skim read far faster than a video is capable of giving me the information and I can't copy and edit example code…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"21109151","mattlondon","I hate videos for technical learning. I will avoid them as much as possible, especially if I cannot play at 2x speed (or more!) and\u002For if they don't have a thumbnail-preview when…",{"value":104,"source":70,"evidence":105},"Email registration required",[106,107],{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"21107406","slenk","What will me email address be used for?",{"value":112,"source":70,"evidence":113},"Examples are hello-world style rather than real server configs",[114],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"21109995","webwanderings","This is very nice and effective. I just wish you had spent time in using the real world examples related to the server configs, instead of using the examples of hello-world, list…",[119,127,134,138],{"value":120,"source":70,"evidence":121},"Provide text or transcripts alongside videos",[122,123],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"21111058","nitemice","I think you've hit on a good compromise: videos with a transcript (including code examples). That way, people who want a video have a video (with the bonus of something to…",{"value":128,"source":70,"evidence":129},"Use HTML instead of PDF for written material",[130],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"21121061","tatersolid","Please use (simple) HTML instead of PDF. Everything is read on-screen these days. PDF basically has no use case that HTML doesn’t cover better in 2018.",{"value":135,"source":70,"evidence":136},"Add real-world examples",[137],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},{"value":139,"source":70,"evidence":140},"Auto-play the next video",[141],{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"21107858","tpayne84","One suggestion: Once one video ends, it would be nice if we would be re-directed or if the following video would load automatically. 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