awesome-ansible/README.md

# Awesome Ansible [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)
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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 and Roles](#playbooks-and-roles)

## 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).
- [IRC](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#irc-channels) - #ansible, #ansible-devel and #ansible-community amongst others on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat/).
- [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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Blog posts and opinions

> Best practices and other ppinions 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).

## Playbooks and Roles

> Awesome production ready Playbooks and Roles 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.
- [System Hardening Framework/Roles](https://galaxy.ansible.com/dev-sec/) - These Roles help 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/).
- [DebOps](https://docs.debops.org/en/master/) - A extensive collection of Debian based Ansible Playbooks.