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Awesome Ansible
A collaborative curated list of awesome Ansible resources, tools, Roles, tutorials and other related stuff.
Ansible 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
- Tutorials
- Books
- Videos
- Tools
- Blogposts and opinions
- Cheat sheets
- Playbooks and Roles
- Uncategorized
Official resources
Official Resources by and for Ansible.
- Ansible Site - Ansible Company Site
- Latest Ansible Documentation - Official latest Documentation for Ansible
- Ansible Galaxy Website - Official Repository and community site for Ansible Roles.
- Ansible Blog - Official Ansible Blog
Tutorials
Tutorials and Courses to learn Ansible.
- Ansible Tutorials on DigitalOcean - Some basic tutorials on DigitalOcean.com
- Ansible Tutorial by leucos - 12 Step Tutorial for Ansible
- Programming Community Curated Resources for learning Ansible - A list of recommended resources.
Books
Books about Ansible.
- Ansible for DevOps - Great Ansible Book, Free sample can be read here
Videos
Ansible YouTube Channel - Official Ansible YouTube channel Introduction to Ansible - Introduction to Ansible
Tools
Tools for and using Ansible.
- Ansible 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 - 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.
- semaphore - Open Source alternative to Ansible Tower.
- Ansible Lint - Checks Playbooks for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.
- Ansible cmdb - Takes the output of Ansible's fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML page.
- ARA, Ansible Run Analysis - ARA records Ansible Playbook runs and makes the recorded data available and intuitive for users and systems.
- Molecule - Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible roles.
- Packer Ansible Provisioner - This Provisioner can be used to automate VM Image Creation via Packer with Ansible.
- Excel Ansible Inventory - Turn any Excel Spreadsheet into an Ansible Inventory
Blogposts and opinions
Best Practices and other Opinions on Ansible.
- Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices - Best practice guidelines.
- Ansible Best Practices by enginyoyen - Some Best Practices for Ansible.
- Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen - Using Test-Kitchen with Ansible to apply playbooks to Windows machines and test them with Pester.
- Ansible Best Practices by AndiDog - Practices covering many aspects of an Ansible setup, including hints to support different environments (testing, staging, production).
Cheat sheets
Structured Documents for fast and easy reference.
Playbooks and Roles
Awesome Production ready Playbooks and Roles to get you up and running.
- Ansible Vagrant Examples by geerlingguy - Ansible examples using Vagrant to deploy to local VMs.
- System Hardening Framework/Roles - These Roles help you harden your Linux Based OS as well as MySQl, NginX and SSH Server/Services.
- Openstack Ansible - Ansible Playbooks for deploying OpenStack.
- DebOps - A extensive collection of Debian based Ansible Playbooks.
Uncategorized
Ansible related Stuff that does not fit one of the other Categories.
- Ansible at Wikipedia - Ansible at Wikipedia.org
- terraform.py - Ansible dynamic inventory script for parsing Terraform state files
License / Disclaimer
This list in itself is released into Public Domain, this does not necessarily apply to the Sites linked to!
Please respect the individual Copyright and Licenses of the Items in this List.