# ansible-collections/community.general

Ansible Community General Collection

Repository: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/communitygeneral
Homepage: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/general/
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ansible-collection, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-09-02T19:48:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 85, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2403, "days_push": 0, "days_rel": 23, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 76}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1067, forks 1829 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:09.087596+00:00)

## What it is
The community.general Ansible Collection, a bundle of community-maintained Ansible modules and plugins that are not part of more specialized collections. It ships as part of the Ansible package and provides broad automation functionality for Linux and Unix targets.

## Use cases
- automate server configuration with ansible
- find community modules for ansible playbooks
- manage infrastructure as code with ansible
- extend ansible with extra plugins
- provision and configure linux servers
- automate repetitive sysadmin tasks

## When to choose
- you use Ansible and need modules or plugins not found in specialized collections
- you want community-supported automation content bundled with the Ansible package
- you manage Linux/Unix hosts and need a wide variety of general-purpose modules

## When to avoid
- you need to manage Windows target hosts, which this collection does not support
- you need a specialized collection dedicated to a specific vendor or technology
- you are not using Ansible for automation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: configuration-management, deployment, developer-tools, cli
- domain: infrastructure-as-code, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: ansible, ansible-collection, it-automation, provisioning, modules, plugins, devops, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ansible-collections/community.general (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:09.087596+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:55:48.323325+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:09.087596+00:00, sha 7a311d8de5c0)
  - homepage: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/general/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:57:57.740905+00:00, sha d611c676f7a6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.