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Learn Ansible the way I did: by example.
A free how-to library for core Ansible and AWX — playbooks, module recipes, and the error fixes I wish I'd had earlier in my career. Every example has been run on real machines.
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Playbooks
Ansible Environment Variables Guide
4•Beginner
Ansible add_host — Create Hosts Dynamically During Play
4•Beginner
Ansible any_errors_fatal and max_fail_percentage — Playbook Failure Control
5•Beginner
Ansible fail Module — Abort Playbooks with Custom Messages
5•Advanced
Ansible failed_when — Custom Failure
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Error Fixes
Ansible Async Task Failure — Fix and Solutions
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Ansible Authentication Failure — Fix and Solutions
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Ansible Cannot Find Role Error — Fix and Solutions
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Ansible Collection Version Conflict — Fix and Solutions
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Ansible Failed to Connect to Host — Fix and Solutions
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Learning Paths
90 hands-on lessons. 5 production-focused learning paths.
Beyond the free tutorial library, five structured paths take you from your first playbook to AWS automation, team-scale AAP/AWX operations, and security compliance — each with real capstone projects and a hands-on lab in every lesson.
Explore Learning Paths15 lessons
Foundations
Deploy and harden a production web server
20 lessons
Production Playbooks
Tested multi-environment deployment
25 lessons
AWS Automation
Provision and configure a multi-tier AWS application environment
14 lessons
AAP and AWX
Production workflow with approval and rollback
16 lessons
Security & Compliance
An automated pipeline that scans, remediates and reports on compliance continuously
What you'll find here
Tutorials, playbooks, and the answers I wish search had given me.
Real, working examples
Every tutorial ships with the actual YAML I ran. Paste it into your project, change the hosts, and go.
---
- name: Configure web servers
hosts: webservers
become: true
tasks:
- name: Install nginx
ansible.builtin.apt:
name: nginx
state: present
- name: Start nginx service
ansible.builtin.service:
name: nginx
state: started
A playground for questions
A companion site where you can ask Ansible questions and sketch out playbooks in your browser.
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Books I've written
Eight titles on Ansible, Kubernetes, and RHEL. Same voice, longer form.
Hi, I'm Luca. I've been writing Ansible since 2014 — nine books, a few thousand playbooks, and more error messages than I'd like to admit.
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