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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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Ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
configuration management,
application deployment, cloud provisioning,
ad-hoc task execution, network automation,
and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
changes like zero-downtime rolling
updates with load balancers easy. More information on the Ansible website.

Design Principles
Have an extremely simple setup process with a minimal learning curve.
Manage machines quickly and in parallel.
Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
leveraging the
existing SSH daemon.
Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
friendly.
Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content.
Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
software.
Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
Be usable as non-root.
Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.

Use Ansible

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You can install a released version of Ansible with pip or a package manager. See our
installation guide for details on installing Ansible
on a variety of platforms.

Red Hat offers supported builds of Ansible Engine.

Power users and developers can run the devel branch, which has the latest
features and
fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
breaking
changes when running the devel branch. We recommend getting involved
in the Ansible
community if you want to run the devel branch.

Get Involved
Read Community
Information for all
kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with
the project,
including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
code to Ansible.
Join a Working Group, an organized community devoted to a specific technology
domain or platform.
Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the devel branch.
Talk to us before making larger changes
to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps
everyone
know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
some changes are needed.
For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
Communication
page

Coding Guidelines
We document our Coding Guidelines in the Developer Guide. We particularly suggest you
review:

Contributing your module to Ansible

Conventions, tips, and pitfalls

Branch Info
The devel branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
The stable-2.X branches correspond to stable releases.
Create a branch based on devel and set up a dev environment if you want to open a
PR.
See the Ansible release and maintenance page for information about active branches.

Roadmap
Based on team and community feedback, an initial roadmap will be published for a major
or minor version (ex: 2.7, 2.8).
The Ansible Roadmap page details what is planned and how
to influence the roadmap.

Authors
Ansible was created by Michael DeHaan
and has contributions from over 5000 users (and
growing). Thanks everyone!

Ansible is sponsored by Red Hat, Inc.

License
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