awesome-ansible

Awesome Ansible List
https://github.com/ansible-community/awesome-ansible

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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
- GitHub.com/ansible - collections](https://github.com/ansible-collections) and [GitHub.com/ansible-community](https://github.com/ansible-community).
- reddit.com/r/ansible - The Ansible subreddit.
- Discord - The Ansible discord.
- libera.chat
- documentation
- ansible.com/community - Twitter, mailing lists, meetups and more.
- Get Help - Get help or help others. Please add appropriate tags if you start new discussions.
- Social Spaces - Gather and interact with fellow enthusiasts.
- News & Announcements - Track project-wide announcements including social events.
- Ansible communication guide
Tutorials
- How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible - This Tutorial goes over how to use Ansible to manage remote servers.
- 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.
- Ansible Tutorials on DigitalOcean - Basic tutorials on DigitalOcean.com.
- 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.
- How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible - This Tutorial goes over how to use Ansible to manage remote servers.
- Official Ansible labs by Red Hat - Training Course for Ansible Automation Platform.
- 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.
- Ansible Tutorial by leucos - 12 Step Tutorial for Ansible.
- Ansible Tutorials on DigitalOcean - Basic tutorials on DigitalOcean.com.
- Official Ansible labs by Red Hat - Training Course for Ansible Automation Platform.
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.
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.
- Ansible YouTube Channel - Official Ansible YouTube channel.
- Introduction to Ansible - Introduction to Ansible by Cloud Academy.
- Complete Ansible Course 2020 by DevOps Journey - Free Video Course on Ansible including labs to follow along.
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.
- Mitogen for Ansible - Speed up Ansible substantially with Mitogen.
- Packer Ansible Provisioner - This Provisioner can be used to automate VM Image creation via Packer with Ansible.
- ansible-bender - Tool which bends containers using Ansible playbooks and turns them into container images.
- 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.
- Steampunk Spotter - Provides an Assisted Automation Writing tool that analyzes and offers recommendations for your Ansible Playbooks.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ansible Template Playground - Online playground for running, testing and sharing Ansible templates.
- 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.
- Excel Ansible Inventory - Turn any Excel Spreadsheet into an Ansible Inventory.
- terraform.py - Ansible dynamic inventory script for parsing Terraform state files.
- ansible-navigator - A text-based user interface (TUI) for Ansible.
- squest - Self-service portal for Automation Controller job templates.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ansible Semaphore - Ansible Semaphore is a modern UI for Ansible.
- kics - SAST Tool that scans your ansible infrastructure as code playbooks for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues and misconfigurations.
- 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 Inventory Grapher - Displays inventory inheritance hierarchies and the level at which variables are defined in an inventory.
- 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.
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](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.
  - Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices - Best practice guidelines.
  - Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices - Best practice guidelines.
  - Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices - Best practice guidelines.
  - 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.
  - 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.
- French
  - Apprendre et Maitriser Ansible l'outil de gestion de configuration - A large of courses on Ansible in French.
- German
  - Ansible – Was ich am Ad-hoc-Modus schätze - Opinion what the author likes about the Ansible Ad-Hoc mode.
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.
  - Robert de Bock - A extensive collection of Ansible roles.
  - DebOps - A extensive collection of Debian based Ansible Playbooks.
  - redhat-cop - Repositories with ansible topic of the Red Hat Communities of Practice project.
  - Robert de Bock - A extensive collection of Ansible roles.
  - redhat-cop - Repositories with ansible topic of the Red Hat Communities of Practice project.
  - 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.
  - 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.
  - 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/).
  - 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.
Editor and IDE Integrations
- French
  - VS Code - official Ansible Extension - Adds language support for Ansible to Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX compatible editors by leveraging ansible-language-server.
  - Ansible Language Server - Language Server that adds support for Ansible, to compatible Editors.
  - Vim - An open-source, free command-line text editor. Useful Vim plugins include:
  - 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.
  - 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 - 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.
  - 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.

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