This repository collects resources for learning how to write good Ansible playbooks. Please bring yours! 😊

• Getting Started
  • YAML Syntax
• Articles and Books
  • Event-Driven
• Talks
  • 2022
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
• Selected Roles
• Cheatsheets
• Reference Documentation
  • Automation Platform
  • Jinja2
• License

Getting Started

• User Guide » Getting Started — Documentation section about how to initially get Ansible running

• Ansible-Boilerplate — Basic template for new Ansible projects

• How Ansible Works

• How to automate your system administration tasks with Ansible

• Getting Started: Writing Your First Playbook

• Install Ansible on Windows Using Cygwin

• Ansible Tutorial

• Quick start guide to Ansible for Linux sysadmins

• Ansible Resources » Videos

YAML Syntax

• User Guide » YAML Syntax — Basic overview of correct YAML syntax

• YAML — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• YAML for beginners

• Understanding YAML for Ansible

• In YAML, how do I break a string over multiple lines?

• YAML Specification

Articles and Books

• Ansible Best Practices: The Essentials

• User Guide » Tips and tricks

• Use Ansible's YAML callback plugin for a better CLI experience

• Reboot Plugin for Linux in Ansible 2.7

• Dealing with Unreliable Connections and Services

• Ansible Configuration Management Database — Generate host overview from ansible fact gathering output

• Ansible recipes and gotchas

• Hands on with Ansible collections

• Ansible Linting with GitHub Actions

• Tolerable Ansible

• Deploying a static website with Ansible

• How to encrypt a single Linux filesystem

• Handling secrets in your Ansible playbooks

• 8 steps to developing an Ansible role in Linux

• 6 troubleshooting skills for Ansible playbooks

• Writing Ansible Modules in Bash

• Tuning Ansible For Maximum Performance

• How to customize your Ansible logs

• Automate container management on Fedora Linux with the Podman Linux System Role

• How to cache Ansible facts with Redis

• Good Practices for Ansible - GPA

• How to work with a list of dictionaries in Ansible

• Ansible for DevOps — by Jeff Geerling

• Ansible for Kubernetes — by Jeff Geerling

• Ansible data manipulation with a Filter

• Using Ansible for Automation with IBM Power Systems

• Peeling back the layers and understanding automation mesh

• Pushing Kickstarts with Ansible

• Create an efficient Ansible development environment in VS Code IDE

• ansible-content-actions — Combine GitHub Actions to create a streamlined workflow for testing Ansible collection repositories on GitHub

• Making the double hop on Windows with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• Azure Automation with Ansible

• Ansible Forms — Lightweight node.js webapplication to generate userfriendly and pretty forms to kickoff Ansible playbooks or AWX/Tower templates

Event-Driven

• Introducing the Event-Driven Ansible developer preview

• Ansible Rulebook documentation

• Event-driven remediation with systemd and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• OpenShift application monitoring with Event-Driven Ansible & Alertmanager

Talks

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Workshops

• 1. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 2. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 3. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 4. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 5. Ansible Anwendertreffen

2022

• Validierung und Integration Testing für Ansible Roles und Playbooks - by Daniel Schier

2018

• Ansible 202: Best Practices from the field by Juan Manuel Parrilla — DevConf Brno

• Ansible best current practices by Lee Garrett — MiniDebConf Hamburg

2017

• Best Practices for Ansible Roles Development by Jiri Tyr — Ansible London

2016

• Ansible From Zero to Best Practices by Will Thames — DevOpsDays Singapore

Selected Roles

• IBM Spectrum Scale — Highly-customizable role for installing and configuring IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

• Ansible Role: mmmodules — Ansible modules for IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) file systems

• NetApp ONTAP volume-nfs-share — Role to configure NFS exports (volume, qtree, policy)

• IBM Spectrum Virtualize IP-Quorum — Role that installs and configures IP-Quorum service for IBM Spectrum Virtualize

• IBM Power Systems AIX Collection — Ansible Content for IBM Power Systems - AIX provides a collection of modules used to manage and deploy Power Systems AIX

• IBM Cloud Ansible Collections — Ansible modules collection for IBM cloud

• Linux System Roles

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) System Roles

• Regex Test — Role for comparing command output with reference file

Cheatsheets

• Awesome Ansible (archived!)

• Awesome Ansible

• Ansible Cheat Sheet from Jon Warbrick

• Devhints.io cheatcheets

Reference Documentation

• User Guide

• Index of all Modules

  • Ansible.Builtin
  • Community.General

• Developer Guide

• Ansible Roadmap

• Porting Guides

• Community Guide

• Ansible ecosystem documentation

• The Ansible Community forum

• Ansible Collections Checklist

• Ansible Automation Platform Certified Content

• ansible-core support matrix

Automation Platform

• Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• Introducing Ansible Automation Platform 2

• Ansible Automation Platform 2.0

• Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1

• Ansible Automation Platform - A video tour

• What's new in Ansible Automation Platform 2.2

• What's new in Ansible Automation Platform 2.3

• What's new in Ansible Automation Platform 2.4

Jinja2

• Template Designer Documentation

• User Guide » Templating Jinja2

License