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Luca Berton is an Ansible automation expert, author of 8 Ansible books published by Apress and Leanpub including "Ansible for VMware by Examples" and "Ansible for Kubernetes by Example", and creator of the Ansible Pilot YouTube channel. He shares practical automation knowledge through tutorials, books, and video courses to help IT professionals and DevOps engineers master infrastructure automation.
Ansible Resources & Tools
A curated list of 12 essential Ansible resources — official Red Hat documentation, the Galaxy ecosystem, quality tooling (Molecule, ansible-lint), execution environments via ansible-navigator, AWX/Ansible Automation Platform, IDE integrations, and community channels. Hand-picked by Luca Berton.
Official Documentation
Ansible Documentation — Official Red Hat Ansible documentation — installation, getting started, modules, plugins, and developer guide.
Ansible Galaxy — Community hub for sharing Ansible roles and collections. Browse, install, and publish reusable automation content.
Ansible Builtin Modules Index — Reference for the ansible.builtin collection — every core module shipped with ansible-core.
Quality & Testing
ansible-lint — Linter that checks Ansible playbooks for practices that could be improved. CI-friendly and configurable.
Molecule — Testing framework for Ansible roles. Supports Docker, Podman, Vagrant, and cloud drivers for verification.
Tooling
ansible-navigator — Text-based UI for running and inspecting Ansible automation, including execution environments and inventory.
AWX — Open-source upstream of Ansible Automation Platform — web UI, REST API, and task engine for at-scale automation.
Ansible Automation Platform — Red Hat's enterprise Ansible offering with hardened content collections, certified support, and policy controls.
IDE & Editors
VS Code Ansible Extension — Official Red Hat VS Code extension with YAML validation, syntax highlighting, ansible-lint integration, and Ansible Lightspeed.
Ansible Lightspeed — AI-powered code generation and recommendations for Ansible playbooks, integrated with the VS Code Ansible extension.
Community
Ansible Community Forum — Official Ansible community forum — Q&A, project announcements, working group discussions, and events.
Ansible Bullhorn Newsletter — Weekly community newsletter covering releases, contributor highlights, events, and ecosystem updates.