Ansible Project Template

Overview

This is my modular Ansible Automation Project Template, built for rapid deployment, repeatability, and clean structure in production-like environments. It follows Ansible best practices, GitOps-ready principles, and is tailored for use in cloud automation, Linux hardening, user provisioning, service management, and CI/CD integrations.

This repository is not just a folder layout — it’s a battle-tested framework I use in real automation labs and will scale with future roles, playbooks, and Ansible Galaxy roles.

Features

• Modular roles/ structure • Passwordless SSH control from macOS to Linux • Role-based automation (user_provision, file_ops) • Click-by-click GitHub execution (no CLI setup required) • GitOps-compatible and CI/CD-ready • Easily extendable for: • Cloud provisioning (AWS, Azure) • Linux hardening and user management • Service deployment • Cron jobs / scheduled ops • Compliance automation

Directory Structure

ansible-project-template/
├── ansible.cfg               # Ansible configuration
├── inventories/
│   └── hosts.ini             # Inventory file
├── playbooks/
│   └── main.yml              # Main playbook (calls roles)
├── roles/
│   ├── user_provision/       # Creates the devops_user on remote machine
│   │   ├── tasks/
│   │   │   └── main.yml
│   │   └── vars/
│   │       └── main.yml
│   └── file_ops/             # Manages /opt/ops.txt with date/time stamp
│       └── tasks/
│           └── main.yml
├── .gitignore
└── README.md