Ansible Automation Starter Kit for Linux Sysadmins
12 production Ansible playbooks for Linux sysadmins — annotated, tested, ready to run.
Stop writing fragile bash scripts. The Ansible Automation Starter Kit gives you 12 annotated, production-grade Ansible playbooks for the Linux sysadmin tasks you actually do every week: patching, user management, disk monitoring, backups, Nginx deploys, firewall rules, SSH hardening, and more. Includes a full ansible.cfg, inventory, group_vars, host_vars, and a PDF-ready guide. Run your first playbook in 30 minutes.
## key-features
- ✓12 annotated production playbooks covering patching, users, monitoring, backups, Nginx, firewall, and SSH hardening
- ✓Every task has a name, every become:yes has a comment, every playbook has a ROLLBACK section
- ✓Idempotent by design — safe to run twice, safe to schedule via cron
- ✓Full infrastructure: ansible.cfg, inventory, group_vars, host_vars templates
- ✓Tested on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Rocky Linux 9, and CentOS Stream 9
- ✓PDF-ready reference guide walks through every playbook
- ▸12 production Ansible playbooks (patch, users, disk, services, cron, backups, nginx, firewall, ssh, reports, logs, ntp)
- ▸Annotated ansible.cfg with production defaults
- ▸Multi-group YAML inventory with examples
- ▸group_vars/all.yml, group_vars/webservers.yml, host_vars template
- ▸Ansible for Linux Sysadmins reference guide (20+ pages)
- ▸Free standalone sample playbook
- ▸Complete bundle delivered as a single zip
## goes-well-with
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## not-ready-to-buy
Take the field notes instead
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