Best Practices

This document aims to gather good and best practices from Ansible practitioners and experience from multiple Ansible projects. It strives to give all Ansible users a guideline from which to start their automation journey in good conditions.

Ansible is simple, flexible, and powerful. Like any powerful tool, there are many ways to use it, some better than others.

Those are opinionated guidelines based on the experience of many projects. They are not meant to be followed blindly if they don’t fit the reader’s specific use case or needs. Take them as an inspiration and adjust them to your needs, still let us know your good and best practices, we all can learn.

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Versioning

This guide is updated constantly, last update on September 21, 2024.