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. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 85
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0.0
- age_days: 5293
- days_rel: 23
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 69
Adoption not part of the score
70474 stars · 24324 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Ansible is an agentless IT automation platform written in Python that handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, and multi-node orchestration over SSH. It uses human-readable YAML playbooks to describe infrastructure and tasks, requiring no agents or extra open ports on managed machines.
Use cases
- automate server configuration management across a fleet of machines
- deploy applications with zero-downtime rolling updates
- provision cloud infrastructure from YAML playbooks
- run ad-hoc commands on many hosts in parallel
- automate network device configuration
- orchestrate multi-node deployment workflows without installing agents
When to choose
- you want agentless automation that only needs SSH access to managed hosts
- you prefer declarative, human-readable YAML playbooks over custom scripts
- you need configuration management, provisioning, and deployment in one tool
- you want a large community ecosystem of modules and collections
- you manage heterogeneous Linux, Windows, and network environments
When to avoid
- you need real-time streaming or event-driven pipelines better served by a message queue
- you require a web UI and REST API out of the box (consider AWX or Ansible Automation Platform)
- you only manage a single machine where shell scripts suffice
- you need extremely low-latency per-second configuration enforcement
Facets
cli-tool · maturity stable
configuration-management deployment infrastructure-as-code cli workflow-automation cloud infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing self-hosted developer-tools windows python cli cross-platform agentless ssh playbooks provisioning orchestration yaml red-hat devops automation linux macos
8 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ansible/ansible · fetched 2026-08-28 · 3ba52224ac30
- homepage: https://www.ansible.com/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · babbdf82d493
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/company · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2fd0240dbbec
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/privacy-policy · fetched 2026-08-28 · d47ffc278b96
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/terms-use · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9f73131f923e
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/all-policies-guidelines · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1acce78b7e3d
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/digital-accessibility · fetched 2026-08-28 · 480d61865362
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/ansible-collaborative/faq · fetched 2026-08-28 · 7a35cc09f8da
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ansible/ansible | main | 94 |
| ansible/ansible-examples | examples | 10 |
| ansible/ansible-modules-core | plugin | 10 |
For agents
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