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 · 2026-10-07
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 5341
- days_rel: 15
- days_push: 14
- n_releases_24m: 70
Adoption not part of the score
70871 stars · 24345 forks observed · 2026-10-07
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-09-21, confidence 0.97
Ansible is an open‑source IT automation engine that uses simple, human‑readable YAML playbooks to configure systems, deploy applications, and orchestrate complex workflows. It operates over SSH without requiring agents on target machines.
Use cases
- automate configuration management across hundreds of servers
- deploy applications consistently in development, staging, and production environments
- provision cloud infrastructure and network devices using code
- run ad‑hoc commands on remote hosts for quick troubleshooting
- orchestrate zero‑downtime rolling updates with load balancers
When to choose
- you need a lightweight, agentless automation tool that works over SSH
- your team prefers declarative YAML playbooks that are easy to read and version control
- you want a single solution for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration
- you require broad platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows) and a large ecosystem of modules
When to avoid
- you need fine‑grained, real‑time monitoring or built‑in GUI dashboards (use AWX/Tower instead)
- your automation heavily depends on Windows PowerShell DSC or other Windows‑only technologies
- you require a compiled, high‑performance runtime for massive parallelism
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli configuration-management workflow-automation infrastructure-as-code deployment infrastructure-as-code windows cross-platform python agentless ssh yaml-playbooks ansible-galaxy ansible-collections infrastructure-as-code devops automation linux macos
8 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ansible/ansible · fetched 2026-10-07 · 3ba52224ac30
- homepage: https://www.ansible.com/ · fetched 2026-09-07 · babbdf82d493
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/company · fetched 2026-09-07 · 2fd0240dbbec
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/privacy-policy · fetched 2026-09-07 · d47ffc278b96
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/terms-use · fetched 2026-09-07 · 9f73131f923e
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/all-policies-guidelines · fetched 2026-09-07 · 1acce78b7e3d
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/digital-accessibility · fetched 2026-09-07 · 8e2eb5b369f7
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/ansible-collaborative/faq · fetched 2026-09-07 · 7a35cc09f8da
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ansible/ansible | main | 94 |
| ansible/ansible-examples | examples | 10 |
| ansible/ansible-modules-core | plugin | 10 |
| ansible/ansible-documentation | docs | 74 |
For agents
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