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This is a collaborative community curated list of awesome Ansible resources, tools, Roles, tutorials and other related stuff.

Ansible is an open source toolkit, written in Python, it is used for configuration management, application deployment, continuous delivery, IT infrastructure automation and automation in general.

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Official resources

Latest Ansible Documentation

Latest user guide and documentation for Ansible.

Ansible Galaxy Website

Official repository and community site for Ansible Roles.

Ansible Blog

Official Ansible blog.

Official resources by and for Ansible.

Community

Get Help

Forum for asking and answering questions. Please add appropriate tags if you start new discussions.

Bullhorn newsletter

Used to announce releases and important changes.

Social Spaces

Gather and interact with fellow enthusiasts.

News & Announcements

Track project-wide announcements including social events.

Join the Ansible forum:

For more information about communication, see the Ansible communication guide.

Tutorials

How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible

This Tutorial goes over how to use Ansible to manage remote servers.

Ansible Tutorial by leucos

12 Step Tutorial for Ansible.

Programming Community Curated Resources for learning Ansible

A list of recommended resources.

Ansible TopTechSkills.com Tutorial Series on Ansible

Tutorials on how to Install and use Ansible.

Official Ansible labs by Red Hat

Training Course for Ansible Automation Platform.

Ansible Tutorials on DigitalOcean

Basic tutorials on DigitalOcean.com.

Ansible Tutorial by BlueBanquise team

Basic Ansible tutorial.

Ansible Tutorial for Beginners: Playbook & Examples

Introduction to Ansible for beginners.

Ansible Tutorials for Beginners and Advanced

Workshop on multiple topics with different levels of difficulty.

Ansible For DevOps

This repository contains Ansible examples developed to support different sections of `Ansible for DevOps` by Jeff Geerling, which is listed in the following section of books about Ansible.

Tutorials and courses to learn Ansible.

Books

Ansible for DevOps

This book helps to start using Ansible to provision and manage anywhere from one to thousands of servers. Free sample can be read [here](https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/read_sample).

Ansible for Kubernetes

Deploy and maintain real-world massively-scalable and high-available applications with Ansible.

How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible eBook

This book is based on the "How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible" tutorial series.

The Tao of Ansible: Mastering Automation with Simplicity and Grace

A guide to Ansible that emphasizes simplicity, elegance, and the philosophy of automation without complexity.

Books about Ansible.

Videos

Ansible YouTube Channel

Official Ansible YouTube channel.

Introduction to Ansible

A beginner-friendly overview by Cloud Academy.

Ansible 101 by Jeff Geerling

Great video series on Ansible, by Jeff Geerling.

Ansible TopTechSkills.com Tutorial Series on YouTube

Video tutorials on Ansible.

Ansible Essentials - Course

Free Video Classroom on Ansible essentials by Red Hat.

Complete Ansible Course 2020 by DevOps Journey

Free Video Course on Ansible including labs to follow along.

Getting started with Ansible

YouTube tutorial series by LearnLinuxTV.

Video tutorials and Ansible training.

Tools

Automation Controller

Formerly Ansible Tower, this Red Hat product helps you scale IT automation, manage complex deployments and speed productivity. Extend the power of Ansible to your entire team.

AWX

Web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is the upstream project for Automation Controller.

Ansible Lint

Checks Playbooks for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.

Ansible Doctor

Simple annotation like documentation generator for Ansible roles based on Jinja2 templates.

Ansible DocSmith

Generates Ansible role documentation from argument_specs.yml for READMEs and default variable files.

Ansible cmdb

Takes the output of Ansible's fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML page.

ARA

Records Ansible playbooks and makes them easier to understand and troubleshoot with a reporting API, UI and CLI.

Ansible Inventory Grapher

Displays inventory inheritance hierarchies and the level at which variables are defined in an inventory.

Mitogen for Ansible

Speed up Ansible substantially with Mitogen.

Molecule

Framework for developing and testing Ansible roles.

Packer Ansible Provisioner

This Provisioner can be used to automate VM Image creation via Packer with Ansible.

Excel Ansible Inventory

Turn any Excel Spreadsheet into an Ansible Inventory.

terraform.py

Ansible dynamic inventory script for parsing Terraform state files.

Ansible101

An interactive, zero-setup sandbox for architecting and debugging playbooks with real-time visual execution flow.

ansible-navigator

A text-based user interface (TUI) for Ansible.

squest

Self-service portal for Automation Controller job templates.

ansible-bender

Tool which bends containers using Ansible playbooks and turns them into container images.

ansible-runner

A tool and Python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python module that can be imported.

ansible-builder

Using Ansible content that depends on non-default dependencies can be tricky. Packages must be installed on each node, play nicely with other software installed on the host system, and be kept in sync.

kics

SAST Tool that scans your Ansible infrastructure as code playbooks for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues and misconfigurations.

ansible-security-scanner

Static analyzer for playbooks, roles and collections covering hardcoded credentials, RCE, and supply-chain risks. Outputs SARIF, CycloneDX SBOM and GitLab SAST.

php-ansible Library

OOP-Wrapper for Ansible, making Ansible available in PHP.

TD4A

Design aid for building and testing jinja2 templates, combines data in yaml format with a jinja2 template and render the output.

Ansible Playbook Grapher

Command line tool to create a graph representing your Ansible playbook plays, tasks and roles.

ansible-doc-extractor

A tool that extracts documentation from Ansible modules in the HTML form.

Ansible Semaphore

Modern UI for managing and running Ansible playbooks.

Steampunk Spotter

Provides an Assisted Automation Writing tool that analyzes and offers recommendations for your Ansible Playbooks.

ansible-roster

Ansible Roster inventory plugin to generate inventory from a host oriented yaml file. Supports ranges, regex hostnames, file inclusions, and variable merging.

Monkeyble

A callback plugin that allow to execute end-to-end tests on playbooks with a Pythonic testing and CI/CD approach to detect regressions.

aar-doc - Automated Ansible Role Documentation

Generate documentation automatically from an Ansible role's metadata.

antsichaut

Automate the filling of a changelog.yaml used by antsibull-changelog.

ansibledb

Flask API Web server that uses MongoDB as database to store Ansible reports and facts; this tool can be used to query hosts and facters managed Ansible as well search Ansible logs.

Ansible Template Playground

Online playground for running, testing and sharing Ansible templates.

Tools for and using Ansible.

  • YAML Validator, (chrome extension) - Online YAML validator and formatter with Ansible JSON Schema validation. The Chrome extension also adds YAML code folding on GitHub.

Blog posts and opinions

Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices

Best practice guidelines.

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen

Using Test-Kitchen with Ansible to apply playbooks to Windows machines and test them with [Pester](https://github.com/pester/Pester/).

Ansible Best Practices by AndiDog

Practices covering many aspects of an Ansible setup, including hints to support different environments (testing, staging, production).

Getting started with Ansible

Introduces Ansible, provides installation instructions and gives an interactive walkthrough of Ansible's basic functionalities, like running Ansible playbooks and installing Ansible content.

Taking Ansible apart

Describes and shows how most commonly used Ansible components work.

Enhancing Ansible Development with SOLID Principles

Discover how the fundamental principles of SOLID—Single Responsibility, Open-Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion—can significantly elevate your Ansible role and playbook development.

Functional programming design patterns in Ansible code

Borrowing functional programming (FP) principles to improve Ansible code quality. How to adopt functional patterns like pure functions, clear separation of effects, immutability, composition, and lazy evaluation can make Ansible automation far easier to test, debug, understand, and extend.

Best practices and other opinions on Ansible.

German

Ansible – Was ich am Ad-hoc-Modus schätze

Opinion what the author likes about the Ansible Ad-Hoc mode.

French

Apprendre et Maitriser Ansible l'outil de gestion de configuration

A large of courses on Ansible in French.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections

Ansible Vagrant Examples by geerlingguy

Ansible examples using Vagrant to deploy to local VMs.

Ansible playbook for Linux machine setup

Ansible playbook for setting up a self-updating, hardened Debian/Ubuntu machine with Docker daemon.

Ansible Lockdown

Ansible content to assist in both auditing and remediating against [CIS](https://www.cisecurity.org/#/) or [STIG](https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/) baseline compliance for OS's and Applications.

DevSec Hardening Framework

The DevSec collection helps you harden your Linux Based OS as well as MySQL, NGINX and SSH Server/Services.

T.A.D.S. boilerplate

Provision and deploy a Docker Swarm cluster to development environment and to production. Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best practices.

Openstack Ansible

Ansible Playbooks for deploying [OpenStack](https://www.openstack.org/).

Robert de Bock

A extensive collection of Ansible roles.

DebOps

A extensive collection of Debian based Ansible Playbooks.

ansible-ssm

An Ansible role to provision physical and virtual hosts with the AWS SSM agent.

BlueBanquise

An Ansible coherent roles collection to deploy clusters.

redhat-cop

Repositories with Ansible topic of the Red Hat Communities of Practice project.

Linuxfabrik LFOps

An Ansible Collection with 145+ playbooks and 160+ roles to bootstrap and manage Linux infrastructure (RHEL 8/9/10, Debian, Ubuntu). Covers OS hardening, MariaDB, Icinga2, Nextcloud, FreeIPA, KVM and Bitwarden integration.

Awesome production ready Playbooks, Roles and Collections to get you up and running.

Editor and IDE Integrations

Ansible Language Server

Language Server that adds support for Ansible, to compatible Editors.

VS Code - official Ansible Extension

Adds language support for Ansible to Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX compatible editors by leveraging ansible-language-server.

Vim

An open-source, free command-line text editor. Useful Vim plugins include:

Emacs

A free, open-source text editor and IDE that supports auto-indentation, syntax highlighting and a built in terminal shell (among other things):

PyCharm

A full IDE for Python software development. Useful plugins include:

Awesome Integrations into Text Editors and IDE's to make development with/for Ansible easier.

  • Ansible vim - A vim syntax plugin for Ansible 2.x, it supports YAML playbooks, Jinja2 templates, and Ansible's hosts files.
  • Ansible vim and neovim plugin - A vim plugin (lsp client) for Ansible, it supports autocompletion, syntax highlighting, hover, diagnostics, and goto support.
  • lsp-mode - Ansible Language Server Protocol support for Emacs: provides syntax highlighting, auto-completion and diagnostics.
  • yaml-mode - YAML highlighting and syntax checking.
  • jinja2-mode - Jinja2 highlighting and syntax checking.
  • magit-mode - Git porcelain within Emacs.
  • flymake-ansible-lint - Ansible Lint integration with automatic/continuous annotation of errors, warnings, and info while editing.
  • Ansible Lint - Ansible Lint integration with automatic/continuous annotation of errors, warnings, and info while editing.
  • Ansible Vault Integration - Ansible vault integration for IntelliJ IDEA with context actions for vaulting and unvaulting secrets.