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Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2024

Tools

• Ansible Inventory Grapher (⭐441) - Displays inventory inheritance hierarchies and the level at which variables are defined in an inventory.

Editor and IDE Integrations / French

• Vim - An open-source, free command-line text editor. Useful Vim plugins include:
  • Ansible vim (⭐800) - 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 (⭐492) - YAML highlighting and syntax checking.
  • jinja2-mode (⭐68) - Jinja2 highlighting and syntax checking.
  • magit-mode (⭐6.6k) - Git porcelain within Emacs.
  • flymake-ansible-lint (⭐7) - 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.

Dec 09 - Dec 15, 2024

Tools

• ansibledb (⭐20) - 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.

Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2024

Community

• Get Help - Get help or help others. Please add appropriate tags if you start new discussions.

• Bullhorn newsletter - Used to announce releases and important changes.

• Social Spaces - Gather and interact with fellow enthusiasts.

• News & Announcements - Track project-wide announcements including social events.

Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2024

Tools

• aar-doc - Automated Ansible Role Documentation (⭐25) - Generate documentation automatically from an Ansible role's metadata.

Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2024

Tutorials

• Ansible For DevOps (⭐8.6k) - 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.

Tools

• antsichaut (⭐5) - Automate the filling of a changelog.yaml used by antsibull-changelog.

Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2023

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• redhat-cop - Repositories with ansible topic of the Red Hat Communities of Practice project.

May 22 - May 28, 2023

Tools

• 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.

Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2023

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.

• Packer Ansible Provisioner - This Provisioner can be used to automate VM Image creation via Packer with Ansible.

Dec 05 - Dec 11, 2022

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorials for Beginners and Advanced - Workshop on multiple topics with different levels of difficulty.

Tools

• Steampunk Spotter - Provides an Assisted Automation Writing tool that analyzes and offers recommendations for your Ansible Playbooks.

Blog posts and opinions / French

• Apprendre et Maitriser Ansible l'outil de gestion de configuration - A large of courses on Ansible in French.

Editor and IDE Integrations / French

• Ansible Language Server (⭐249) - Language Server that adds support for Ansible, to compatible Editors.

• VS Code - official Ansible Extension - Adds language support for Ansible to Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX compatible editors by leveraging ansible-language-server.

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2022

Tools

• Ansible Semaphore (⭐11k) - Ansible Semaphore is a modern UI for Ansible.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Robert de Bock - A extensive collection of Ansible roles.

May 30 - Jun 05, 2022

Blog posts and opinions / German

• Ansible – Was ich am Ad-hoc-Modus schätze - Opinion what the author likes about the Ansible Ad-Hoc mode.

May 23 - May 29, 2022

Tools

• ansible-doc-extractor (⭐16) - A tool that extracts documentation from Ansible modules in the HTML form.

Blog posts and opinions

• 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.

May 02 - May 08, 2022

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.

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2022

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorial for Beginners: Playbook & Examples - Introduction to Ansible for beginners.

Tools

• php-ansible Library (⭐204) - OOP-Wrapper for Ansible, making Ansible available in PHP.

• TD4A (⭐212) - Design aid for building and testing jinja2 templates, combines data in yaml format with a jinja2 template and render the output.

• Ansible Playbook Grapher (⭐646) - Command line tool to create a graph representing your Ansible playbook plays, tasks and roles.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• BlueBanquise (⭐117) - An ansible coherent roles collection to deploy clusters.

Feb 14 - Feb 20, 2022

Videos

• Getting started with Ansible - YouTube tutorial series by LearnLinuxTV.

Dec 20 - Dec 26, 2021

Tools

• kics (⭐2.1k) - SAST Tool that scans your ansible infrastructure as code playbooks for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues and misconfigurations.

Nov 29 - Dec 05, 2021

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorial by BlueBanquise team - Basic Ansible tutorial.

Nov 08 - Nov 14, 2021

Tools

• ansible-bender - Tool which bends containers using Ansible playbooks and turns them into container images.

• ansible-runner (⭐977) - 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 - 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.

Sep 27 - Oct 03, 2021

Tools

• squest - Self-service portal for Automation Controller job templates.

Sep 20 - Sep 26, 2021

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• ansible-ssm (⭐6) - An ansible role to provision physical and virtual hosts with the AWS SSM agent.

Aug 02 - Aug 08, 2021

Tools

• ARA (⭐1.9k) - ARA Records Ansible playbooks and makes them easier to understand and troubleshoot with a reporting API, UI and CLI.

Jun 07 - Jun 13, 2021

Tools

• ansible-navigator (⭐398) - A text-based user interface (TUI) for Ansible.

Mar 29 - Apr 04, 2021

Videos

• Complete Ansible Course 2020 by DevOps Journey - Free Video Course on Ansible including labs to follow along.

Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2021

Tutorials

• How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible - This Tutorial goes over how to use Ansible to manage remote servers.

• Ansible Tutorials on DigitalOcean - Basic tutorials on DigitalOcean.com.

Books

• How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible eBook - This book is based on the "How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible" tutorial series.

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2021

Tutorials

• Official Ansible labs by Red Hat - Training Course for Ansible Automation Platform.

Videos

• Ansible Essentials - Course - Free Video Classroom on Ansible essentials by Red Hat.

Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020

Official resources

• Ansible Galaxy Website - Official repository and community site for Ansible Roles.

• Ansible Blog - Official Ansible blog.

Videos

• Ansible 101 by Jeff Geerling - Great video series on Ansible, by Jeff Geerling.

• Ansible TopTechSkills.com Tutorial Series on YouTube - Video tutorials on Ansible.

Tools

• terraform.py (⭐451) - Ansible dynamic inventory script for parsing Terraform state files.

Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2020

Tools

• Ansible Later (⭐111) - Another best practice scanner. Checks Playbooks and Roles for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.

• Ansible Doctor (⭐133) - Simple annotation like documentation generator for Ansible roles based on Jinja2 templates.

Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2020

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.

• Ansible for Kubernetes - Deploy and maintain real-world massively-scalable and high-available applications with Ansible.

Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2020

Official resources

• Latest Ansible Documentation - Latest user guide and documentation for Ansible.

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorial by leucos (⭐2.3k) - 12 Step Tutorial for Ansible.

• Ansible TopTechSkills.com Tutorial Series on Ansible - Tutorials on how to Install and use Ansible.

Videos

• Ansible YouTube Channel - Official Ansible YouTube channel.

• Introduction to Ansible - Introduction to Ansible by Cloud Academy.

Tools

• Mitogen for Ansible - Speed up Ansible substantially with Mitogen.

• Molecule - Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible roles.

• Excel Ansible Inventory (⭐97) - Turn any Excel Spreadsheet into an Ansible Inventory.

Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2020

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Ansible playbook for Linux machine setup (⭐86) - Ansible playbook for setting up a self-updating, hardened Debian/Ubuntu machine with Docker daemon.

Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2019

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• T.A.D.S. boilerplate (⭐760) - Provision and deploy a Docker Swarm cluster to development environment and to production. Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best practices.

Sep 02 - Sep 08, 2019

Tools

• Ansible Lint (⭐3.5k) - Checks Playbooks for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.

Oct 08 - Oct 14, 2018

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Openstack Ansible (⭐1.5k) - Ansible Playbooks for deploying OpenStack.

• DebOps - A extensive collection of Debian based Ansible Playbooks.

Jun 18 - Jun 24, 2018

Tutorials

• Programming Community Curated Resources for learning Ansible - A list of recommended resources.

Apr 09 - Apr 15, 2018

Blog posts and opinions

• Ansible Best Practices by AndiDog - Practices covering many aspects of an Ansible setup, including hints to support different environments (testing, staging, production).

Jan 29 - Feb 04, 2018

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 (⭐3.1k).

Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2017

Tools

• AWX (⭐14k) - 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 cmdb (⭐2.4k) - Takes the output of Ansible's fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML page.

Blog posts and opinions

• Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices - Best practice guidelines.

Playbooks, Roles and Collections / French

• Ansible Vagrant Examples by geerlingguy (⭐2.1k) - Ansible examples using Vagrant to deploy to local VMs.