r/ansible is a subreddit with 78k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses ansible, automation, awx, looking, and windows.
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
Advice Requests
: "I built a free interactive Ansible learning platform - feedback welcome!"
20 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Minimalistic Ansible collection to deploy 70+ tools"
15 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Built a Dockerized Ansible lab with a browser-based IDE"
4 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Is AWX basically dead as a release project now? No release since July 2024…"
3 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "AD DC Promotion via Ansible"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/ansible
#1
Ansible
: "Are you using Ansible to configure?"
242 posts
#2
Automation
: "ServiceNow ITSM + Ansible Automation"
73 posts
#3
Awx
: "Awx Resurrection + 281 upstream commits backported"
35 posts
#4
Looking
29 posts
#5
Windows
: "Automated Windows Server Patching with MECM & Ansible"
16 posts
#6
Playbook
: "Best practice Playbook/roles/collection organization"
16 posts
#7
Inventory
: "Is it possible to run same template in parallel with dynamically changing Inventory"
14 posts
#8
Struggling
13 posts
#9
Devops
: "Is the book "Ansible for Devops" by Jeff Geerling still relevant for learning?"
11 posts
#10
Configuration
: "How do you prevent server Configuration drift?"
9 posts
Flair Used in r/ansible
#1
playbooks, roles and collections
: "I made a simple MOTD Ansible role"
22 posts
#2
linux
: "Is using Ansible on home systems reasonable/justified?"
12 posts
#3
developer tools
: "Open-source tool to convert Puppet manifests to Ansible (100% local, no AI APIs used for conversion)"
4 posts
#4
windows
: "Red Hat Ansible Automation Workshop for Windows"
4 posts
#5
network
: "Ansible for network stuff [2025]"
3 posts
Member Growth in r/ansible
Yearly
+8k members(12.0%)
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Last updated: June 3, 2026