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 (https://www.ansible.com/)

▐ A collaborative curated list of awesome Ansible resources, tools, Roles, tutorials and other related stuff.

Ansible (https://www.ansible.com/) 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.

Contents

- Official resources (#official-resources)
- Community (#community)
- Tutorials (#tutorials)
- Books (#books)
- Videos (#videos)
- Tools (#tools)
- Blog posts and opinions (#blog-posts-and-opinions)
- Playbooks, Roles and Collections (#playbooks-roles-and-collections)
- Editor and IDE Integrations (#editor-and-ide-integrations)

Official resources

▐ Official resources by and for Ansible.

- Latest Ansible Documentation (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/index.html) - Latest user guide and documentation for Ansible.
- Ansible Galaxy Website (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) - Official repository and community site for Ansible Roles.
- Ansible Blog (https://www.ansible.com/blog) - Official Ansible blog.

Community

▐ Places where to chat with the Ansible community

- About code - GitHub.com/ansible (https://github.com/ansible), GitHub.com/ansible-collections (https://github.com/ansible-collections) and GitHub.com/ansible-community (https://github.com/ansible-community).
- reddit.com/r/ansible (https://old.reddit.com/r/ansible/) - The Ansible subreddit.
- Discord (https://old.reddit.com/r/ansible/comments/jv5shj/ansible_discord_server_come_get_ansible_help_in/) - The Ansible discord.
- ansible.com/community (https://ansible.com/community) - Twitter, mailing lists, meetups and more.

There are also many Ansible IRC channels on libera.chat (https://libera.chat/) that are bridged to Matrix (https://matrix.org/).
You can find the full list and how to connect in the official documentation documentation (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html) but here's a few:

│       IRC        │        Matrix        │                                     Topic                                      │
├──────────────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│#ansible          │#users:ansible.com    │General Ansible user support and discussion                                     │
│#ansible-devel    │#devel:ansible.com    │Developer discussions around code, bugs and features                            │
│#ansible-community│#community:ansible.com│Community working group, wide range of topics including weekly meetings         │
│#ansible-docs     │#docs:ansible.com     │Documentation working group, discuss docs and participate in weekly meetings    │
│#ansible-devtools │#devtools:ansible.com │For devtools such as ansible-lint, molecule and the vscode plugin               │
│#ansible-awx      │#awx:ansible.com      │For the AWX open source project, upstream of Ansible Tower/Automation controller│
│#ansible-network  │#network:ansible.com  │For general support and discussion around network automation with Ansible       │
│#ansible-fr       │#francais:ansible.com │For discussion about Ansible in french                                          │

Tutorials

▐ Tutorials and courses to learn Ansible.

- How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/how-to-manage-remote-servers-with-ansible) - This Tutorial goes over how to use Ansible to manage remote 
servers.
- Ansible Tutorial by leucos (https://github.com/leucos/ansible-tuto) - 12 Step Tutorial for Ansible.
- Programming Community Curated Resources for learning Ansible (https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-ansible) - A list of recommended resources.
- Ansible TopTechSkills.com Tutorial Series on Ansible (https://www.toptechskills.com/ansible-tutorials-courses/) - Tutorials on how to Install and use Ansible.
- Official Ansible labs by Red Hat (https://ansible.github.io/workshops/exercises/ansible_rhel/) - Training Course for Ansible Automation Platform.
- Ansible Tutorials on DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/ansible?subtype=tutorial) - Basic tutorials on DigitalOcean.com.
- Ansible Tutorial by BlueBanquise team (http://bluebanquise.com/documentation/releases/1.5.0/training_ansible.html) - Basic Ansible tutorial.
- Ansible Tutorial for Beginners: Playbook & Examples (https://spacelift.io/blog/ansible-tutorial) - Introduction to Ansible for beginners.
- Ansible Tutorials for Beginners and Advanced (https://ansible.puzzle.ch/) - Workshop on multiple topics with different levels of difficulty.
- Ansible For DevOps (https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-for-devops) - This repository contains Ansible examples developed to support different sections of Ansible for DevOps 
(https://www.ansiblefordevops.com), a book on Ansible by Jeff Geerling.

Books

▐ Books about Ansible.

- Ansible for DevOps (https://www.ansiblefordevops.com/) - 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 (https://www.ansibleforkubernetes.com/) - Deploy and maintain real-world massively-scalable and high-available applications with Ansible.
- How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible eBook (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/books/how-to-manage-remote-servers-with-ansible-ebook) - This book is based on the "How To Manage Remote Servers with 
Ansible" tutorial series.

Videos

▐ Video tutorials and Ansible training.

- Ansible YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPJo5UY1KsP7J1BuHmiWNzQ) - Official Ansible YouTube channel.
- Introduction to Ansible (https://youtu.be/iVWmbStE1MM) - Introduction to Ansible by Cloud Academy.
- Ansible 101 by Jeff Geerling (https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/ansible-101-jeff-geerling-youtube-streaming-series) - Great video series on Ansible, by Jeff Geerling.
- Ansible TopTechSkills.com Tutorial Series on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMyOob-UkeytIleCbMlFfCzaunOh27hm6) - Video tutorials on Ansible.
- Ansible Essentials - Course (https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/do007-ansible-essentials-simplicity-automation-technical-overview) - Free Video Classroom on Ansible essentials by Red Hat.
- Complete Ansible Course 2020 by DevOps Journey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuiAiUyuDY4&list=PLnFWJCugpwfzTlIJ-JtuATD2MBBD7_m3u&index=1) - Free Video Course on Ansible including labs to follow along.
- Getting started with Ansible (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT98CRl2KxKEUHie1m24-wkyHpEsa4Y70) - YouTube tutorial series by LearnLinuxTV.

Tools

▐ Tools for and using Ansible.

- Automation Controller (https://www.ansible.com/products/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 (https://github.com/ansible/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 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint) - Checks Playbooks for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.
- Ansible Later (https://github.com/thegeeklab/ansible-later) - Another best practice scanner. Checks Playbooks and Roles for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.
- Ansible Doctor (https://github.com/thegeeklab/ansible-doctor) - Simple annotation like documentation generator for Ansible roles based on Jinja2 templates.
- Ansible cmdb (https://github.com/fboender/ansible-cmdb) - Takes the output of Ansible's fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML page.
- ARA (https://github.com/ansible-community/ara) - ARA Records Ansible playbooks and makes them easier to understand and troubleshoot with a reporting API, UI and CLI.
- Mitogen for Ansible (https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/ansible_detailed.html) - Speed up Ansible substantially with Mitogen.
- Molecule (https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible roles.
- Packer Ansible Provisioner (https://www.packer.io/plugins/provisioners/ansible/ansible-local) - This Provisioner can be used to automate VM Image creation via Packer with Ansible.
- Excel Ansible Inventory (https://github.com/KeyboardInterrupt/ansible_xlsx_inventory) - Turn any Excel Spreadsheet into an Ansible Inventory.
- terraform.py (https://github.com/mantl/terraform.py) - Ansible dynamic inventory script for parsing Terraform state files.
- ansible-navigator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-navigator) - A text-based user interface (TUI) for Ansible.
- squest (https://hewlettpackard.github.io/squest/) - Self-service portal for Automation Controller job templates.
- ansible-bender (https://ansible-community.github.io/ansible-bender/build/html/index.html) - Tool which bends containers using Ansible playbooks and turns them into container images.
- ansible-runner (https://github.com/ansible/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 (https://ansible-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - 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 (https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics) - SAST Tool that scans your ansible infrastructure as code playbooks for security vulnverables, compliance issues and misconfigurations.
- php-ansible Library (https://github.com/maschmann/php-ansible) - OOP-Wrapper for Ansible, making Ansible available in PHP.
- TD4A (https://github.com/cidrblock/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 (https://github.com/haidaraM/ansible-playbook-grapher) - Command line tool to create a graph representing your Ansible playbook plays, tasks and roles.
- ansible-doc-extractor (https://github.com/xlab-steampunk/ansible-doc-extractor) - A tool that extracts documentation from Ansible modules in the HTML form.
- Ansible Semaphore (https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore) - Ansible Semaphore is a modern UI for Ansible.
- Steampunk Spotter (https://steampunk.si/spotter/) - Provides an Assisted Automation Writing tool that analyzes and offers recommendations for your Ansible Playbooks.
- ansible-roster (https://gitlab.com/jlecomte/ansible/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 (https://hewlettpackard.github.io/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 (https://github.com/telekom-mms/Automated-Ansible-Role-Documentation) - Generate documentation automatically from an Ansible role's metadata.
- antsichaut (https://github.com/ansible-community/antsichaut) - automate the filling of a changelog.yaml used by antsibull-changelog. 

Blog posts and opinions

▐ Best practices and other opinions on Ansible.

- Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices (https://reinteractive.com/posts/167-ansible-real-life-good-practices) - Best practice guidelines.
- Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen (https://hodgkins.io/testing-ansible-roles-windows-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 (https://andidog.de/blog/2017-04-24-ansible-best-practices) - Practices covering many aspects of an Ansible setup, including hints to support different environments (testing, 
staging, production).
- Getting started with Ansible (https://steampunk.si/blog/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 (https://steampunk.si/blog/taking-ansible-apart/) - Describes and shows how most commonly used Ansible components work.

German

- Ansible – Was ich am Ad-hoc-Modus schätze (https://www.my-it-brain.de/wordpress/ansible-was-ich-am-ad-hoc-modus-schaetze/) - Opinion what the author likes about the Ansible Ad-Hoc mode.

French

- Apprendre et Maitriser Ansible l'outil de gestion de configuration (https://blog.stephane-robert.info/post/introduction-ansible/) - A large of courses on Ansible in French.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections

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

- Ansible Vagrant Examples by geerlingguy (https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-vagrant-examples) - Ansible examples using Vagrant to deploy to local VMs.
- Ansible playbook for Linux machine setup (https://github.com/olivomarco/my-ansible-linux-setup) - Ansible playbook for setting up a self-updating, hardened Debian/Ubuntu machine with Docker daemon.
- DevSec Hardening Framework (https://dev-sec.io/) - The DevSec collection helps you harden your Linux Based OS as well as MySQL, NGINX and SSH Server/Services.
- T.A.D.S. boilerplate (https://github.com/Thomvaill/tads-boilerplate) - Provision and deploy a Docker Swarm cluster to development environment and to production. Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best 
practices.
- Openstack Ansible (https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible) - Ansible Playbooks for deploying OpenStack (https://www.openstack.org/).
- Robert de Bock (https://robertdebock.nl) - A extensive collection of Ansible roles.
- DebOps (https://docs.debops.org/en/master/) - A extensive collection of Debian based Ansible Playbooks.
- ansible-ssm (https://github.com/HQarroum/ansible-ssm) - An ansible role to provision physical and virtual hosts with the AWS SSM agent.
- BlueBanquise (https://github.com/bluebanquise/bluebanquise) - An ansible coherent roles collection to deploy clusters.
- redhat-cop (https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aansible+org%3Aredhat-cop&type=Repositories&s=updated&o=desc) - Repositories with ansible topic of the Red Hat Communities of Practice project.

Editor and IDE Integrations

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

- Ansible Language Server (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-language-server) - Language Server that adds support for Ansible, to compatible Editors.
- Emacs - Ansible client for Language Server Protocol (https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/lsp-ansible/) - Emacs support for Ansible Language Server Protocol.
- VS Code - official Ansible Extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.ansible) - Adds language support for Ansible to Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX compatible editors by leveraging 
ansible-language-server.