Ansible

Guide for Ansible automation and configuration management. Use when writing playbooks, tasks, handlers, variables, conditionals, loops, or needing an overview of Ansible project structure and development workflows.

Guide for Ansible roles and Galaxy. Use when creating or consuming roles, structuring role directories, defining role dependencies, using meta/main.yml, working with Jinja2 templates, or installing collections and roles from Ansible Galaxy.

Guide for Ansible Vault secrets management and security practices. Use when encrypting variables or files with ansible-vault, configuring vault passwords, using vault IDs, or applying security hardening to playbooks.

Guide for testing Ansible roles and playbooks with Molecule. Use when writing Molecule test scenarios, configuring drivers (Docker, Podman, delegated), writing Testinfra or Ansible Verify tests, or integrating Molecule into CI pipelines.

Guide for Ansible inventory management. Use when configuring static or dynamic inventory files, defining host patterns, setting host and group variables, using group_vars and host_vars directories, or working with inventory plugins.