ansible /ansible
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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![Repository License][copying] 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 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. 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. Communication Join the Ansible forum to ask questions, get help, and interact with the community. Get Help: Find help or share your Ansible knowledge to help others. Use tags to filter and subscribe to posts, such as the following: Posts tagged with ansible Posts tagged with ansible-core Posts tagged with playbook Social Spaces: Meet and interact with fellow enthusiasts. News & Announcements: Track project-wide announcements including social events. Bullhorn newsletter: Get release announcements and important changes. For more ways to get in touch, see Communicating with the Ansible community. Contribute to Ansible Check out the Contributor's Guide. Read Community Information for all kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project, including how to submit bug reports and code to Ansible. 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. Coding Guidelines Development context for ansible-core can be found in the context directory. We also 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 stab
Top issues
#51663apt upgrade full raises a "Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend"70 comments · 2019-02-03#86122[WARNING]: Module invocation had junk after the JSON data:41 comments · 2025-11-03#16259Add MFA keyboard-interactive authentication in sshd_config, even with nullok in the authentication method's PAM options41 comments · 2016-06-13#85605Ansible 2.19.0 breaks `loop`-templates because of jinja native types.39 comments · 2025-07-31#64016ansible 2.8.6 get_url repeatedly downloads file with force==no35 comments · 2019-10-28#72776connection variables are not recursively templating under delegation31 comments · 2020-12-01#49207Ansible carries out work after forks and sometimes has threads running. 28 comments · 2018-11-27#65687get_url in check_mode reports changed status when there is nothing to change26 comments · 2019-12-10
Latest release
v2.22.0 v2.22.0 2026-11-02Changelog See the full changelog for the changes included in this release. Release Artifacts Built Distribution: ansible_core-2.22.0-py3-none-any.whl - ‌2488530 bytes 8285d4cc81c3e3eb2d954e75531724fe0ae154d228475638123451f034a74657 (SHA256) Source Distribution: ansible_core-2.22.0.tar.gz - ‌3476434 bytes bf50b4a0cfa985e30585c7ba301897ea7050d224ca49d2816cab10e33a160e1c (SHA256)