Ansible AWX — Open Source Tower
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Learn Ansible the way I did: by example.
A free, growing library of Ansible tutorials — 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 AWX — Open Source Tower
7•intermediate
What is FQCN in Ansible? Fully Qualified Collection Names
5•beginner
Ansible selectattr Filter — Filter Lists of Dictionaries by Attribute
6•intermediate
Ansible Playbook: Enterprise Windows Backup via win_robocopy
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Ansible regex_escape — Escape Regex
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Error Fixes
Fix Ansible SSH & Task Timeout
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Fix Ansible \"Could Not Resolve Hostname\" — DNS & Inventory Troubleshooting
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Fix Ansible Galaxy — Timeout Errors
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Fix Ansible "Gathering Facts" Timeout & Slow Playbooks — Speed Up by 10x
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Fix Ansible Handlers Not Running — notify, flush_handlers & Common Pitfalls
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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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19 categories, from playbooks and modules to the error pages people actually google.
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.
Red Hat Certified
RHCE & RHCSA
8 Books
Published author
Conference Speaker
Red Hat Summit, KubeCon
1653+ Tutorials
Written and tested by me