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    geerlingguy/ansible-for-devops

    Ansible for DevOps examples.

    devops
    cloud
    kubernetes
    amazon
    ansible
    aws
    book
    docker
    Python
    MIT
    9.9K stars
    3.8K forks
    375 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 9, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 29 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a collection of Ansible playbook examples illustrating various DevOps automation tasks and infrastructure setups.
    • Offers practical, instructive examples aligned with a well-known Ansible book, facilitating learning through real-world scenarios.
    • Use for learning Ansible basics and orchestration by running simple playbooks on local VMs with Vagrant and VirtualBox.
    • Use for automating multi-server deployments and infrastructure setups like LAMP stacks, Kubernetes clusters, and ELK stacks.
    • Use for implementing CI/CD pipelines, security hardening, and container management with Docker and Jenkins automation.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present

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    From the README

    This repository contains Ansible examples developed to support different sections of Ansible for DevOps, a book on Ansible by Jeff Geerling.

    Many examples use Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Ansible to boot and configure VMs on your local workstation.

    Not all playbooks follow all of Ansible's best practices, as they illustrate particular Ansible features in an instructive manner.

    The book's manuscript is released under the CC BY-SA license, and is publicly available in a separate repository: Ansible for DevOps - Manuscript.

    Excerpt from the geerlingguy/ansible-for-devops README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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