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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, network automation, and multi-node
orchestration. Ansible makes complex changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers
easy. More information on the Ansible website <https://ansible.com/>_.
This is the ansible community package.
The ansible python package contains a set of
independent Ansible collections that are curated by the community,
and it pulls in ansible-core <https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core/>_.
The ansible-core python package contains the core runtime and CLI tools,
such as ansible and ansible-playbook,
while the ansible package contains extra modules, plugins, and roles.
ansible follows semantic versioning <https://semver.org/>_.
Each major version of ansible depends on a specific major version of
ansible-core and contains specific major versions of the collections it
includes.
You can install a released version of Ansible with pip or a package manager. See our
Installation guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/index.html>_ for details on installing Ansible
on a variety of platforms.
Issues with plugins and modules in the Ansible package should be reported
on the individual collection's issue tracker.
Issues with ansible-core should be reported on
the ansible-core issue tracker <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/>.
Issues with the ansible package build process or serious bugs or
vulnerabilities in a collection that are not addressed after opening an issue
in the collection's issue tracker should be reported on
ansible-build-data's issue tracker <https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data#issue-tracker>.
Refer to the Communication page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html>_ for a
list of support channels if you need assistance from the community or are
unsure where to report your issue.
Community Information <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community>_ for ways to contribute to
and interact with the project, including mailing list information and how
to submit bug reports and code to Ansible or Ansible collections.Working Group <https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki>_, an organized community
devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.Communication page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html>_We document our Coding Guidelines in the Developer Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/>_. We also suggest you review:
Developing modules checklist <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html>_Collection contributor guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/contributions_collections.html>_ansible-core and a curated set of collections. Ansible uses semantic versioning <https://semver.org/>_ (for example, Ansible 5.6.0).Ansible release and maintenance <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html>_ for information about active branches and their corresponding ansible-core versions.ansible-build-data <https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/>_
repository for the exact versions of ansible-core and collections that
are included in each ansible release.Based on team and community feedback, an initial roadmap will be published for a major
version (example: 5, 6). The Ansible Roadmap <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible_roadmap_index.html>_ details what is planned and how to influence the
roadmap.
Ansible was created by Michael DeHaan <https://github.com/mpdehaan>_
and has contributions from over 4700 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
Ansible <https://www.ansible.com>_ is sponsored by Red Hat, Inc. <https://www.redhat.com>_
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
See COPYING <https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull/blob/main/src/antsibull/data/gplv3.txt>_
for the full license text.
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Radically simple IT automation
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