- Explain inventory file. it has all the hosts which ansible can use; ssh can be via key or password; connection can also be local; host specific or group specific vars can be added here - Do ping (bash ping) - Go through types of variables where you can put variables including ansible-vault demo - Go through the first playbook - Run it on new LXC container - Run roles-update; explain how ansible roles work (basically a set of tasks configurable by variables) that do larger tasks; usually premade by community.