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Awesome Ansible List
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A curated list of resources and tools for learning and using Ansible for automation and configuration management
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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
Community
- Get Help
Get help or help others. 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
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 by Jeff Geerling, which is listed in the following section of books about 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
- 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
Videos
- Ansible YouTube Channel
Official Ansible YouTube channel
- Introduction to Ansible
Introduction to Ansible 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
Tools
- Automation Controller
Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower) by Red Hat helps you scale IT automation, manage complex deployments and speed productivity. Extend the power of Ansible to your entire team
AWX
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is the upstream project for Automation Controller, a commercial derivative of AWX
Ansible Lint
Checks Playbooks for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved
Ansible Later
Another best practice scanner. Checks Playbooks and Roles 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 cmdb
Takes the output of Ansible's fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML page
ARA
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
Molecule aids in the development and testing of 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
- 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
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
Ansible Semaphore is a modern UI for Ansible
- 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
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
- 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
Blog posts and opinions / German
- Ansible – Was ich am Ad-hoc-Modus schätze
Opinion what the author likes about the Ansible Ad-Hoc mode
Blog posts and opinions / 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
- 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
- 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
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:
Editor and IDE Integrations / Vim
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
Editor and IDE Integrations
- Emacs
A free, open-source text editor and IDE that supports auto-indentation, syntax highlighting and a built in terminal shell (among other things):
Editor and IDE Integrations / Emacs
- 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
Editor and IDE Integrations
- PyCharm
A full IDE for Python software development. Useful plugins include:
Editor and IDE Integrations / PyCharm
- 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
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