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Provides Ansible playbook and role structures plus best practices for idempotent tasks, handlers, FQCN, and inventory management. Use when writing playbooks, roles, or automating infrastructure.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/devops-data:ansibleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
This skill provides Ansible automation patterns and best practices.
This skill provides Ansible automation patterns and best practices.
---
- name: Configure web servers
hosts: webservers
become: true
vars:
http_port: 80
tasks:
- name: Install nginx
ansible.builtin.apt:
name: nginx
state: present
notify: Restart nginx
handlers:
- name: Restart nginx
ansible.builtin.service:
name: nginx
state: restarted
roles/
└── webserver/
├── defaults/main.yml # Default variables
├── handlers/main.yml # Handler definitions
├── tasks/main.yml # Task list
├── templates/ # Jinja2 templates
├── files/ # Static files
└── vars/main.yml # Role variables
# ✅ Good
- ansible.builtin.apt:
name: nginx
# ❌ Bad (ambiguous)
- apt:
name: nginx
# Tasks should be safe to run multiple times
- name: Ensure config exists
ansible.builtin.template:
src: config.j2
dest: /etc/app/config.yml
# Only changes if content differs
tasks:
- name: Update config
template:
src: nginx.conf.j2
dest: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
notify: Restart nginx
handlers:
- name: Restart nginx
service:
name: nginx
state: restarted
[webservers]
web1.example.com
web2.example.com
[dbservers]
db1.example.com
[production:children]
webservers
dbservers
npx claudepluginhub jpoutrin/product-forge --plugin devops-dataProvides examples and best practices for writing Ansible playbooks to automate configuration management, server setup, and infrastructure orchestration.
Guides Ansible playbook creation, roles, inventories, project structure, modules, handlers, error handling, and debugging YAML syntax, module failures, variable precedence.
Guides writing Ansible playbooks, tasks, handlers, variables, conditionals, and loops. Covers project structure and development workflows for automation.