Configuration management tools for the R admin

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Shows how an analytic admin uses Ansible playbooks to provision cloud VMs, install the R toolchain and RStudio Connect, and call the RStudio Connect content management APIs to push content via existing scripts from a GitHub data science lab repo. Demonstrates a working project that creates reproducible sandboxes (provision → deploy → tear down), recommends matching the org’s config tool, and proves programmatic deployment can enable dev/test/prod workflows and IT buy‑in.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:27What is the R admin
3. 1:40R admin goals
4. 4:21Data Science Lab
5. 5:22Firehose
6. 7:21Configuration management tools
7. 7:54Ansible
8. 9:28Playbooks
9. 10:14Playbook Roles
10. 11:25Content Management API
11. 16:26Resources
12. 17:00Interoperability
13. 18:05Summary

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