DevOps engineer Gerard van Engelen provides a detailed guide on deploying Grafana Mimir using Ansible, highlighting the integration of Grafana with Ansible to manage and configure Mimir across Linux hosts. The guide explains how to set up the necessary environment, including the installation of the Grafana Ansible collection and the configuration of an Ansible inventory file. It further instructs users on creating and utilizing an Ansible playbook to deploy Mimir, leveraging the Mimir role from the grafana.grafana Ansible collection to facilitate configuration and communication among hosts. High availability configurations and object storage backend usage are addressed, and the guide concludes with steps to verify metric availability in Mimir through Grafana's interface, as well as troubleshooting tips for potential service issues.