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Jul 21 - Jul 27, 2025

Blog posts and opinions

• 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.

Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2025

Tools

• Ansible Template Playground - Online playground for running, testing and sharing Ansible templates.

Blog posts and opinions

• Enhancing Ansible Development with SOLID Principles (⭐3) - 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.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Ansible Lockdown - Ansible content to assist in both auditing and remediating against CIS or STIG baseline compliance for OS's and Applications.

Feb 03 - Feb 09, 2025

Books

• 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.

Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2024

Tools

• Ansible Inventory Grapher (⭐453) - Displays inventory inheritance hierarchies and the level at which variables are defined in an inventory.

Editor and IDE Integrations / French

• Vim - An open-source, free command-line text editor. Useful Vim plugins include:
  • Ansible vim (⭐806) - 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.

• Emacs - A free, open-source text editor and IDE that supports auto-indentation, syntax highlighting and a built in terminal shell (among other things):
  • lsp-mode - Ansible Language Server Protocol support for Emacs: provides syntax highlighting, auto-completion and diagnostics.
  • yaml-mode (⭐505) - YAML highlighting and syntax checking.
  • jinja2-mode (⭐69) - Jinja2 highlighting and syntax checking.
  • magit-mode (⭐6.8k) - Git porcelain within Emacs.
  • flymake-ansible-lint (⭐7) - Ansible Lint integration with automatic/continuous annotation of errors, warnings, and info while editing.

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

Dec 09 - Dec 15, 2024

Tools

• ansibledb (⭐20) - 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.

Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2024

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.

Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2024

Tools

• aar-doc - Automated Ansible Role Documentation (⭐40) - Generate documentation automatically from an Ansible role's metadata.

Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2024

Tutorials

• Ansible For DevOps (⭐9.1k) - 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.

Tools

• antsichaut (⭐5) - Automate the filling of a changelog.yaml used by antsibull-changelog.

Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2023

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• redhat-cop - Repositories with ansible topic of the Red Hat Communities of Practice project.

May 22 - May 28, 2023

Tools

• 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.

Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2023

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.

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

Dec 05 - Dec 11, 2022

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorials for Beginners and Advanced - Workshop on multiple topics with different levels of difficulty.

Tools

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

Blog posts and opinions / French

• Apprendre et Maitriser Ansible l'outil de gestion de configuration - A large of courses on Ansible in French.

Editor and IDE Integrations / French

• Ansible Language Server (⭐251) - 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.

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2022

Tools

• Ansible Semaphore (⭐12k) - Ansible Semaphore is a modern UI for Ansible.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Robert de Bock - A extensive collection of Ansible roles.

May 30 - Jun 05, 2022

Blog posts and opinions / German

• Ansible – Was ich am Ad-hoc-Modus schätze - Opinion what the author likes about the Ansible Ad-Hoc mode.

May 23 - May 29, 2022

Tools

• ansible-doc-extractor (⭐16) - A tool that extracts documentation from Ansible modules in the HTML form.

Blog posts and opinions

• 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.

May 02 - May 08, 2022

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

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

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2022

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorial for Beginners: Playbook & Examples - Introduction to Ansible for beginners.

Tools

• php-ansible Library (⭐211) - OOP-Wrapper for Ansible, making Ansible available in PHP.

• TD4A (⭐216) - Design aid for building and testing jinja2 templates, combines data in yaml format with a jinja2 template and render the output.

• Ansible Playbook Grapher (⭐697) - Command line tool to create a graph representing your Ansible playbook plays, tasks and roles.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• BlueBanquise (⭐138) - An ansible coherent roles collection to deploy clusters.

Feb 14 - Feb 20, 2022

Videos

• Getting started with Ansible - YouTube tutorial series by LearnLinuxTV.

Dec 20 - Dec 26, 2021

Tools

• kics (⭐2.4k) - SAST Tool that scans your ansible infrastructure as code playbooks for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues and misconfigurations.

Nov 29 - Dec 05, 2021

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorial by BlueBanquise team - Basic Ansible tutorial.

Nov 08 - Nov 14, 2021

Tools

• ansible-bender - Tool which bends containers using Ansible playbooks and turns them into container images.

• ansible-runner (⭐1k) - 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.

Sep 27 - Oct 03, 2021

Tools

• squest - Self-service portal for Automation Controller job templates.

Sep 20 - Sep 26, 2021

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• ansible-ssm (⭐8) - An ansible role to provision physical and virtual hosts with the AWS SSM agent.

Aug 02 - Aug 08, 2021

Tools

• ARA (⭐1.9k) - ARA Records Ansible playbooks and makes them easier to understand and troubleshoot with a reporting API, UI and CLI.

Jun 07 - Jun 13, 2021

Tools

• ansible-navigator (⭐456) - A text-based user interface (TUI) for Ansible.

Mar 29 - Apr 04, 2021

Videos

• Complete Ansible Course 2020 by DevOps Journey - Free Video Course on Ansible including labs to follow along.

Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2021

Tutorials

• How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible - This Tutorial goes over how to use Ansible to manage remote servers.

• Ansible Tutorials on DigitalOcean - Basic tutorials on DigitalOcean.com.

Books

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

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2021

Tutorials

• Official Ansible labs by Red Hat - Training Course for Ansible Automation Platform.

Videos

• Ansible Essentials - Course - Free Video Classroom on Ansible essentials by Red Hat.

Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020

Official resources

• Ansible Galaxy Website - Official repository and community site for Ansible Roles.

• Ansible Blog - Official Ansible blog.

Videos

• Ansible 101 by Jeff Geerling - Great video series on Ansible, by Jeff Geerling.

• Ansible TopTechSkills.com Tutorial Series on YouTube - Video tutorials on Ansible.

Tools

• terraform.py (⭐452) - Ansible dynamic inventory script for parsing Terraform state files.

Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2020

Tools

• Ansible Doctor (⭐141) - Simple annotation like documentation generator for Ansible roles based on Jinja2 templates.

Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2020

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.

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

Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2020

Official resources

• Latest Ansible Documentation - Latest user guide and documentation for Ansible.

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorial by leucos (⭐2.3k) - 12 Step Tutorial for Ansible.

• Ansible TopTechSkills.com Tutorial Series on Ansible - Tutorials on how to Install and use Ansible.

Videos

• Ansible YouTube Channel - Official Ansible YouTube channel.

• Introduction to Ansible - Introduction to Ansible by Cloud Academy.

Tools

• Mitogen for Ansible - Speed up Ansible substantially with Mitogen.

• Molecule - Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible roles.

• Excel Ansible Inventory (⭐100) - Turn any Excel Spreadsheet into an Ansible Inventory.

Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2020

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Ansible playbook for Linux machine setup (⭐97) - Ansible playbook for setting up a self-updating, hardened Debian/Ubuntu machine with Docker daemon.

Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2019

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• T.A.D.S. boilerplate (⭐779) - Provision and deploy a Docker Swarm cluster to development environment and to production. Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best practices.

Sep 02 - Sep 08, 2019

Tools

• Ansible Lint (⭐3.7k) - Checks Playbooks for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.

Oct 08 - Oct 14, 2018

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Openstack Ansible (⭐1.5k) - Ansible Playbooks for deploying OpenStack.

• DebOps - A extensive collection of Debian based Ansible Playbooks.

Jun 18 - Jun 24, 2018

Tutorials

• Programming Community Curated Resources for learning Ansible - A list of recommended resources.

Apr 09 - Apr 15, 2018

Blog posts and opinions

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

Jan 29 - Feb 04, 2018

Blog posts and opinions

• Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen - Using Test-Kitchen with Ansible to apply playbooks to Windows machines and test them with Pester (⭐3.2k).

Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2017

Tools

• AWX (⭐15k) - 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 cmdb (⭐2.4k) - Takes the output of Ansible's fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML page.

Blog posts and opinions

• Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices - Best practice guidelines.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Ansible Vagrant Examples by geerlingguy (⭐2.1k) - Ansible examples using Vagrant to deploy to local VMs.