Ansible Automation

This handles Ansible playbooks, roles, and inventory management for configuration and deployment across multiple servers. You'd reach for it when provisioning cloud instances, doing rolling application deployments, or keeping server configurations in sync. The quick start shows a basic three-role deployment with health checks and serial execution for zero-downtime updates. Reference guides cover playbook structure, inventory organization, and variable management. The best practices are solid reminders: use roles for modularity, leverage handlers for idempotency, always run check mode first, and keep secrets in vault. It's opinionated about avoiding shell commands when simpler modules exist, which is the right nudge for maintainable infrastructure code.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill ansible-automation --agent claude-code

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Overview

Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment across multiple servers using Ansible playbooks, roles, and dynamic inventory management.

When to Use

Configuration management
Application deployment
Infrastructure patching and updates
Multi-server orchestration
Cloud instance provisioning
Container management
Database administration
Security compliance automation

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# site.yml - Main playbook
---
- name: Deploy application stack
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: yes
  serial: 1  # Rolling deployment

  pre_tasks:
    - name: Display host information
      debug:
        var: inventory_hostname
      tags: [always]

  roles:
    - common
    - docker
    - application

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