awesome-ansible/README.md

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> 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.
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## 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.

## 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.

- [Ansible Tower](https://www.ansible.com/products/tower) - 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 Tower, 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://packer.io/docs/provisioners/ansible-local.html ) - 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 Ansible Tower 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.

## 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.

## 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.