Ansible Bookmarks

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

Contents

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

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

• 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 in IBM Power Environments

• 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.

• Ansible Best Practices - Good and best practices from Ansible practitioners and experience from multiple Ansible projects.

• Strategies for eliminating Ansible hardcoded credentials

• How to manage Python dependencies in Ansible execution environments

• How to Troubleshoot and Debug Ansible Playbooks

• The Tao of Ansible - Mastering Automation with Simplicity and Grace by John Stilia (Ioannis Stylianakos).

• Automate Your Network - Introducing the Modern Approach to Enterprise Network management (John Capobianco).

• How to start configuration as code for an Ansible instance

• New Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections for HashiCorp Terraform and HashiCorp Vault

• Ansible: pure (only in its) pragmatism

• Ansible Configuration Drift Management, Detection & Fixes

• Ansible Solution Guides - Solution guides for AI-driven automation with Ansible Automation Platform.

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

• Event-Driven Ansible in the Wild (Part 1/2)

• Event-Driven Ansible in the Wild (Part 2/2)

Talks

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Workshops

• 1. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 2. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 3. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 4. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 5. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 6. Ansible Anwendertreffen

• 7. 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.

• IBM Storage Scale - Spectrum Scale Installation and Configuration.

• IBM Storage Protect - Ansible collection for IBM Storage Protect.

• HashiCorp Terraform Collection - Ansible collection for Terraform Enterprise/Cloud.

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

• The Ansible Community forum

• Ansible Collections Checklist

• Ansible Automation Platform Certified Content

• ansible-core support matrix

Automation Platform

• Automation with Ansible AWX

• Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• Ansible Automation Platform - A video tour

• Introducing Ansible Automation Platform 2

• Ansible Automation Platform 2.0

• Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1

• 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

• What's new in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5

• What’s new in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6

• What’s new in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with HashiCorp Vault OIDC integration

Jinja2

• Template Designer Documentation

• User Guide » Templating Jinja2