Tools

• Ansible DocSmith (⭐20) - Generates Ansible role documentation from argument_specs.yml for READMEs and default variable files.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Linuxfabrik LFOps (⭐82) - 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.

Tools

• Ansible101 - An interactive, zero-setup sandbox for architecting and debugging playbooks with real-time visual execution flow.

• 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

• 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.

Tools

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

Blog posts and opinions

• Enhancing Ansible Development with SOLID Principles (⭐6) - 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.

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.

Tools

• Ansible Inventory Grapher (⭐471) - 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 (⭐820) - 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 (⭐513) - YAML highlighting and syntax checking.
  • jinja2-mode (⭐73) - Jinja2 highlighting and syntax checking.
  • magit-mode (⭐7.1k) - Git porcelain within Emacs.
  • flymake-ansible-lint (⭐11) - 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.

Tools

• ansibledb (⭐23) - 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.

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.

Tools

• aar-doc - Automated Ansible Role Documentation (⭐53) - Generate documentation automatically from an Ansible role's metadata.

Tutorials

• Ansible For DevOps (⭐9.8k) - 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.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

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

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.

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.

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

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 (⭐250) - 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.

Tools

• Ansible Semaphore (⭐14k) - Modern UI for managing and running Ansible playbooks.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

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

Blog posts and opinions / German

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

Tools

• ansible-doc-extractor (⭐17) - 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.

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.

Tutorials

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

Tools

• php-ansible Library (⭐215) - OOP-Wrapper for Ansible, making Ansible available in PHP.

• TD4A (⭐220) - Design aid for building and testing jinja2 templates, combines data in yaml format with a jinja2 template and render the output.

• Ansible Playbook Grapher (⭐750) - Command line tool to create a graph representing your Ansible playbook plays, tasks and roles.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• BlueBanquise (⭐160) - An Ansible coherent roles collection to deploy clusters.

Videos

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

Tools

• kics (⭐2.6k) - SAST Tool that scans your Ansible infrastructure as code playbooks for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues and misconfigurations.

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorial by BlueBanquise team - Basic Ansible tutorial.

Tools

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

• ansible-runner (⭐1.1k) - 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.

Tools

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

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

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

Tools

• ARA (⭐2k) - Records Ansible playbooks and makes them easier to understand and troubleshoot with a reporting API, UI and CLI.

Tools

• ansible-navigator (⭐533) - A text-based user interface (TUI) for Ansible.

Videos

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

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.

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.

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 (⭐454) - Ansible dynamic inventory script for parsing Terraform state files.

Tools

• Ansible Doctor (⭐157) - Simple annotation like documentation generator for Ansible roles based on Jinja2 templates.

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.

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 - A beginner-friendly overview by Cloud Academy.

Tools

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

• Molecule - Framework for developing and testing Ansible roles.

• Excel Ansible Inventory (⭐102) - Turn any Excel Spreadsheet into an Ansible Inventory.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Ansible playbook for Linux machine setup (⭐111) - Ansible playbook for setting up a self-updating, hardened Debian/Ubuntu machine with Docker daemon.

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.

Tools

• Ansible Lint (⭐3.9k) - Checks Playbooks for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Openstack Ansible (⭐1.6k) - Ansible Playbooks for deploying OpenStack.

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

Tutorials

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

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).

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 (⭐3.3k).

Tools

• AWX (⭐15k) - Web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is the upstream project for Automation Controller.

• 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.