r/ansible is a subreddit with 79k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses ansible, automation, looking, awx, and struggling.
Automation for the People! A Subreddit dedicated to fostering communication in the Ansible Community, includes Ansible, AWX, Ansible Galaxy, ansible-lint, Molecule, etc.
Popular Themes in r/ansible
#1
Solution Requests
: "Minimalistic Ansible collection to deploy 70+ tools"
15 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "I built a free interactive Ansible learning platform - feedback welcome!"
15 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Is AWX basically dead as a release project now? No release since July 2024…"
4 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Built a Dockerized Ansible lab with a browser-based IDE"
3 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "I built a free, browser-based Ansible visual debugger and Jinja2 sandbox"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/ansible
#1
Ansible
: "Is the book "Ansible for DevOps" by Jeff Geerling still relevant for learning?"
168 posts
#2
Automation
: "How to setup IBM Bob to work with MCP server for Ansible Automation Platform"
53 posts
#3
Looking
29 posts
#4
Awx
: "Awx Resurrection + 281 upstream commits backported"
22 posts
#5
Struggling
13 posts
#6
Inventory
11 posts
#7
Playbook
: "Best practice Playbook/roles/collection organization"
11 posts
#8
Windows
: "Automated Windows Server Patching with MECM & Ansible"
10 posts
#9
Configuration
: "How do you prevent server Configuration drift?"
9 posts
#10
Devops
: "Is the book "Ansible for Devops" by Jeff Geerling still relevant for learning?"
7 posts
Flair Used in r/ansible
#1
playbooks, roles and collections
: "I made a simple MOTD Ansible role"
21 posts
#2
linux
: "Is using Ansible on home systems reasonable/justified?"
12 posts
#3
developer tools
: "I built a free, browser-based Ansible visual debugger and Jinja2 sandbox"
7 posts
#4
network
: "Ansible for network stuff [2025]"
3 posts
#5
windows
: "Red Hat Ansible Automation Workshop for Windows"
3 posts
Member Growth in r/ansible
Yearly
+9k members(12.0%)
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Last updated: July 2, 2026