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Ansible

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
configuration-management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
ad-hoc task-execution, and multinode orchestration -- including
trivializing things like zero-downtime rolling updates with load
balancers.

Read the documentation and more at https://ansible.com/

You can find installation instructions
here <https://docs.ansible.com/intro_getting_started.html>_ for a
variety of platforms.

Most users should probably install a released version of Ansible from pip, a package manager or
our release repository <https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/>. Officially supported <https://www.ansible.com/ansible-engine> builds of Ansible are also available. Some power users
run directly from the development branch - while significant efforts are made to ensure that
devel is reasonably stable, you're more likely to encounter breaking changes when running
Ansible this way.

Design Principles

• Have a dead simple setup process and a minimal learning curve
• Manage machines very quickly and in parallel
• Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
  leveraging the existing SSH daemon
• Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
  friendly
• Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content
• Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
  software
• Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python
• Be usable as non-root
• Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.

Get Involved

• Read Community Information <https://docs.ansible.com/community.html>_ for all
  kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
  including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
  code to Ansible.
• All code submissions are done through pull requests. Take care to
  make sure no merge commits are in the submission, and use
  git rebase vs git merge for this reason. If submitting a
  large code change (other than modules), it's probably a good idea to
  join ansible-devel and talk about what you would like to do or add
  first to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
  know what's going on, it also helps save time and effort if we decide
  some changes are needed.
• Users list:
  ansible-project <https://groups.google.com/group/ansible-project>_
• Development list:
  ansible-devel <https://groups.google.com/group/ansible-devel>_
• Announcement list:
  ansible-announce <https://groups.google.com/group/ansible-announce>_
  -- read only
• irc.freenode.net: #ansible

Branch Info

• Releases are named after Led Zeppelin songs. (Releases prior to 2.0
  were named after Van Halen songs.)
• The devel branch corresponds to the release actively under
  development.
• Various release-X.Y branches exist for previous releases.
• We'd love to have your contributions, read Community Information <https://docs.ansible.com/community.html>_ for notes on
  how to get started.

Authors

Ansible was created by Michael DeHaan <https://github.com/mpdehaan>_
(michael.dehaan/gmail/com) and has contributions from over 1000 users
(and growing). Thanks everyone!

Ansible is sponsored by Ansible, Inc <https://ansible.com>_

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

See COPYING <COPYING>_ to see the full text.

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