Ansible Basics 10: Ansible Galaxy

One of the key features that contributes to Ansible’s popularity is its extensive ecosystem of community-contributed content, known as Ansible Galaxy. Ansible Galaxy is a hub for discovering and sharing Ansible roles, which are reusable automation components that encapsulate tasks, variables, and other Ansible functionality. These roles are created and shared by the Ansible community, allowing users to quickly find and incorporate pre-built automation into their own projects.

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Using Ansible Galaxy for managing Ansible roles and collections

Ansible Galaxy is a hub for finding and sharing Ansible content, such as roles and collections. Roles are pre-packaged units of work that can be referenced in Ansible playbooks and immediately put to work. Collections are larger units that can contain multiple roles, modules, plugins, and other Ansible components.

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