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Ansible Resources

User contributed playbooks, modules, and articles. This is a small curated list, but growing. Everyone is encouraged to add to this document, just send in a pull request!

Ansible Modules

Ansible modules are a way of adding new client-side logic to ansible. They can be written in any language.

Official "core" ansible modules - various
mercurial - bradobro
zypper (bash module example) - jp_mens
homebrew - swehack

Python modules using 0.6 and later can use the common "AnsibleModule" class to dramatically reduce the amount of boilerplate code required. Not all modules above yet take advantage of this feature. See the official documentation for more details.

Selected Playbooks

Playbooks are Ansible's configuration management language. It should be easy to write your own from scratch for most applications, but it's always helpful to look at what others have done for reference.

Hadoop - jkleint
LAMP - Four Kitchens
Ganglia (demo) - mpdehaan
Nginx - cocoy
OpenStack - lorin
Systems Configuration - cegeddin

Callbacks and Plugins

The Ansible project has a whole repo devoted to extending ansible with new connection types, logging/event callbacks, and inventory data storage. Talk to Cobbler and EC2, tweak the way things are logged, or even add sound effects.

Ansible-Plugins

Scripts And Misc

Ansible isn't just a program, it's also an API. Here's some examples of some clever integrations with the "Runner" and also Playbook APIs, and integrations with other interesting pieces of software.

Ansible Vagrant plugin - dsander
Ansible+Vagrant Tutorial - mattupstate -
virt-install - skvidal
rebooting hosts - skvidal
uptime (API demo) - mpdehaan

Blogs & Articles

HighScalability.com - mpdehaan
ColoAndCloud.com interview - mpdehaan
dzone - Mitch Pronschinske
Configuration Management With Ansible - jp_mens
Shell Scripts As Ansible Modules - jp_mens
Ansible Facts - jp_mens
Infrastructure as Data - cocoy
Ansible Pull Mode - cocoy
Exploring Configuration Management With Ansible - Palamino DB
You Should Consider Using SSH Based Configuration Management - LShift Ltd
Deploying Flask/uWSGI, Nginx, and Supervisorctl - mattupstate

Disclaimer

Modules and playbooks here may not be using the latest in Ansible features. When in doubt to the features of a particular version of Ansbile, always consult ansible.cc and in particular see Best Practices for some tips and tricks that may be useful.