# Configuration Management. Ansible

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## Automation

### API Integration

#### Ansible HTTP

  - **(2021)** [ansible.com: Automating your business application's REST API with Ansible](https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/ansible/application-delivery)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — This guide demonstrates orchestrating custom application workflows and RESTful APIs using Ansible's `uri` module. It details credential authentication, payload handling, and status code verification within a continuous integration or system-provisioning pipeline, eliminating the need for ad-hoc scripting.
## Automation and Orchestration

### Configuration Management

#### Ansible AWX

  - **(2026)** [==AWX==](https://github.com/ansible/awx) <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>⭐ 15453</span> <svg class="v2-sparkline" width="50" height="15" viewBox="0 0 50 15" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; margin-left: 6px;" title="Activity Trend"><defs><linearGradient id="spark-grad-83cb96df" x1="0" y1="0" x2="1" y2="0"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="rgba(34, 211, 238, 0.2)" /><stop offset="100%" stop-color="var(--md-accent-fg-color)" /></linearGradient></defs><path class="v2-sparkline-path" d="M 0 9 L 10 13 L 20 8 L 30 4 L 40 9 L 50 2" fill="none" stroke="url(#spark-grad-83cb96df)" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /><circle cx="50" cy="2" r="2" fill="var(--md-accent-fg-color)" /></svg> <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[PYTHON CONTENT]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[ADVANCED LEVEL]</span> 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 <span class='md-tag md-tag--success'>[DE FACTO STANDARD]</span> — AWX serves as the open-source upstream project for Ansible Automation Platform/Tower. Written in Django and React, it provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine to centrally manage Ansible inventories, credentials, playbooks, and scheduling in containerized environments.
## Container Orchestration

### Kubernetes

#### Ansible Integration

  - **(2025)** [ansibleforkubernetes.com 🌟](https://www.ansibleforkubernetes.com) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[N/A CONTENT]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[ADVANCED LEVEL]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Reference site for Jeff Geerling's "Ansible for Kubernetes" book. It showcases advanced architectural patterns using Ansible to orchestrate cloud-native Kubernetes systems, write custom operators, and manage application lifecycles inside pods.
#### Deployments

  - **(2022)** [linuxsysadmins.com: Install Ansible AWX on Kubernetes in 5 minutes](https://www.linuxsysadmins.com/install-ansible-awx-on-kubernetes) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[YAML CONTENT]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — A rapid deployment guide demonstrating how to bootstrap an instance of Ansible AWX on a Kubernetes cluster using the AWX Operator. It covers namespace preparation, applying the custom resource manifest, and verifying initial service exposures.
#### Helm

  - **(2024)** [artifacthub.io: Helm Charts - AWX](https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?ts_query_web=awx&sort=relevance&page=1) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[YAML CONTENT]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[LEGACY]</span> — Helm Charts indexing service for AWX deployments on Kubernetes. While the AWX Operator is the official, Red Hat-endorsed packaging system, third-party and legacy Helm Charts exist to satisfy custom, manifest-driven deployment architectures.
#### Helm Integration

  - **(2024)** [docs.ansible.com: kubernetes.core.helm module – Manages Kubernetes packages with the Helm package manager](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/kubernetes/core/helm_module.html) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[PYTHON CONTENT]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--primary'>[DOCUMENTATION]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Official reference for the `kubernetes.core.helm` Ansible module. This enables declarative state management of Helm packages inside Kubernetes clusters directly from playbooks, bridging traditional automation with modern GitOps pipelines.
  - **(2024)** [docs.ansible.com: kubernetes.core.helm_plugin module – Manage Helm plugins](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/kubernetes/core/helm_plugin_module.html) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[PYTHON CONTENT]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--primary'>[DOCUMENTATION]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Official documentation detailing Ansible's `kubernetes.core.helm_plugin` module. This module automates the installation, update, and removal of core Helm plugins, streamlining toolchain dependencies directly on administrative cluster environments.
#### Object Management

  - **(2022)** [adamtheautomator.com: How to Use the Ansible Kubernetes Module](https://adamtheautomator.com/ansible-kubernetes) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[YAML CONTENT]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — A technical tutorial focusing on deploying applications inside Kubernetes utilizing the `k8s` Ansible module. It highlights authentication patterns, namespace orchestration, and managing deployments or services using declarative syntax.
#### Operators

  - **(2026)** [**AWX Operator**](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator) <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>⭐ 1487</span> <svg class="v2-sparkline" width="50" height="15" viewBox="0 0 50 15" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; margin-left: 6px;" title="Activity Trend"><defs><linearGradient id="spark-grad-69f7bf8d" x1="0" y1="0" x2="1" y2="0"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="rgba(34, 211, 238, 0.2)" /><stop offset="100%" stop-color="var(--md-accent-fg-color)" /></linearGradient></defs><path class="v2-sparkline-path" d="M 0 11 L 10 7 L 20 3 L 30 3 L 40 12 L 50 5" fill="none" stroke="url(#spark-grad-69f7bf8d)" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /><circle cx="50" cy="5" r="2" fill="var(--md-accent-fg-color)" /></svg> <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[GO CONTENT]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[ADVANCED LEVEL]</span> 🌟🌟🌟🌟 <span class='md-tag md-tag--success'>[ENTERPRISE-STABLE]</span> — The AWX Operator is a cloud-native Kubernetes Operator designed to automate the deployment, lifecycle management, scaling, and upgrades of AWX. By leveraging Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), it simplifies complex Postgres and web-app state management inside K8s.
## Infrastructure as Code

### Ansible

#### Application Servers

  - **(2021)** [developers.redhat.com: Automate Red Hat JBoss Web Server deployments with Ansible](https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/08/30/automate-red-hat-jboss-web-server-deployments-ansible) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[YAML CONTENT]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Automates deployment and cluster routing for enterprise Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS) environments. Illustrates how to orchestrate JBoss installations, execute configuration templating, and deploy Java war artifacts securely.
#### Comparison

  - **(2021)** [analyticsindiamag.com: Ansible vs Docker: A Detailed Comparison Of DevOps Tools](https://analyticsindiamag.com/ansible-vs-docker-a-detailed-comparison-of-devops-tools)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Decouples the architectural concepts of container runtime deployment (Docker) and multi-node system orchestration (Ansible). Highlights how combining these two paradigms enables rapid deployment of complex application stacks.
#### Containers

  - **(2021)** [fedoramagazine.org: Using Ansible to configure Podman containers 🌟](https://fedoramagazine.org/using-ansible-to-configure-podman-containers) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[YAML CONTENT]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Introduces Podman automation using native Ansible modules. Details how to coordinate rootless container deployments, configure volume mapping, publish network ports, and manage container life cycles without requiring a system-level Docker daemon.
#### NGINX Automation

  - **(2021)** [**galaxy.ansible.com/nginxinc/nginx_core**](https://galaxy.ansible.com/nginxinc/nginx_core) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[YAML CONTENT]</span> 🌟🌟🌟🌟 <span class='md-tag md-tag--success'>[ENTERPRISE-STABLE]</span> — The official Ansible NGINX Core Collection. It automates the installation, configuration, and execution of NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus instances. It provides modular, enterprise-ready playbooks to streamline load-balancing, reverse proxies, and web operations across heterogeneous environments.
### Deployment Tools

#### Application Deployment

  - **(2022)** [**Capistrano**](https://capistranorb.com) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[RUBY CONTENT]</span> 🌟🌟🌟🌟 <span class='md-tag md-tag--success'>[ENTERPRISE-STABLE]</span> — A remote server automation and deployment framework written in Ruby. It is a classic standard for multi-stage deployments, file synchronization, and atomic rollbacks. It remains highly popular for standard VM infrastructures, though cloud-native projects have largely migrated to Kubernetes-based systems.
  - **(2022)** [Ansistrano](https://github.com/ansistrano) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[YAML CONTENT]</span> 🌟🌟🌟 <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[LEGACY]</span> — An Ansible-based application deployment solution heavily inspired by Ruby's Capistrano. It targets zero-downtime scripting setups using multi-release symlink rotations. While highly valuable for legacy monorepo VMs, it is mostly archived in modern cloud-native, containerized architectures.

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