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Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
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About ansible/ansible
Ansible is an open-source IT automation platform written in Python that simplifies infrastructure management and deployment across systems. It handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, network automation, and multi-node orchestration through a declarative language that reads like plain English. The system operates agentlessly over SSH, requiring no additional software installation on remote machines, and can execute complex operations like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers.
The project emphasizes simplicity and security as core design principles, aiming to be the easiest IT automation system to use while maintaining auditability and allowing non-root operation. Ansible modules can be developed in any dynamic language, not just Python, and the platform supports ad-hoc task execution alongside playbook-based orchestration. The codebase has grown through contributions from over 5,000 users and is sponsored by Red Hat, with an active community maintaining stable branches alongside a regularly updated development branch.
The project welcomes contributions from developers of all levels through its well-documented contributor guidelines and community forums. Ansible uses a roadmap process to plan major and minor releases based on team and community feedback, and maintains multiple stable branches alongside the active development branch to support users across different release versions.