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<div>Open-Ended Response</div>

<div>deploy</div>

<div>A simple and enough documented system for automagically setup hosts and applications. Nothing which could not be replaced  by R(?)ex and/or ad hoc scripts, but with a large enough community to trust its future.</div>

<div>A way to automate package installation and configuration.</div>

<div>100 percent Open Source automation platform that the dev-ops community can trust!</div>

<div>Reliable work-horse doing things in the background</div>

<div>Simple to use, reliable, but flexible enough for more complicated use cases.</div>

<div>Ansible provides a low barrier of entry into the world of infrastructure automation and remote execution.</div>

<div>pain, long deployment times, waiting until nixos becomes mainstream</div>

<div>everything</div>

<div>Ansible is a critical tool I use to run commands ad-hoc on the fleet of hosts I manage. Without it, my job would be much harder. If the open source version of Ansible ever went away, I don't think I would ever be able to trust RedHat again.</div>

<div>Simple to manage Linux hosts, absurdly confusing for third party OS vendors (example: storage) and documentation examples are lacking.</div>

<div>create tasks that can be tested (-D) and are idempotent so that I can run them as often as I like. I can always test that systems are up to date before any new change.</div>

<div>Power Standout for Holistic DevOps Practitioners</div>

<div>centralized vm management without headache</div>

<div>Automation, consistency, simplicity, complexity</div>

<div>Absurdly flexible and fun way to control everything and fuck up at the same time!</div>

<div>enjoyable</div>

<div>helper</div>

<div>Ansible is difficult but it means our organization can feel secure that server configuration is preserved and self documented.</div>

<div>A quick way to share and reuse automation script.</div>

<div>Very useful provisioning tool.</div>

<div>Automating server configuration.      That's it... it's simple, don't over complicate it.</div>

<div>simple and predictable.</div>

<div>Ansible is a powerful open-source administration eco-system  enabling automated and repeatable configuration and orchestration for computers and devices.</div>

<div>automation, infrastructure as code, consistency, idempotency</div>

<div>Ansible gives me time for the difficult topics.</div>

<div>easy to use, multi purpose automation tool</div>

<div>I am just a fresh starter, but from what I hear from other users, it solves my problems I always had with "runner" Admin behavior.</div>

<div>Simple and repeatable configuration management.</div>

<div>Ansible is a configuration management tool. We can install and uninstall any service using Ansible on a number of machines.</div>

<div>Wikimedia Endowment</div>

<div>A no BS way if configuring and documenting my servers/ systems.</div>

<div>overly complicated not so goiod documented gitops provisioning</div>

<div>provisioning tool</div>

<div>automation tool for complex tasks as well as for every day tasks</div>

<div>freedom and convenience</div>

<div>a useful configuration tool.</div>

<div>Great automation tool to manage and orchestrate my services across multiple nodes in transparent and maintainable way opposite to Kubernetes</div>

<div>deploy IAS in Azure</div>

<div>Automation</div>

<div>configuration managment</div>

<div>Operations Excellence</div>

<div>Dont close source it like RHEL.</div>

<div>Automation</div>

<div>consistency, predictability, easy, repeatability, flexibility</div>

<div>Ansible is the true opensource core project.</div>

<div>Automation, CI/CD, end-to-end automation</div>

<div>Its a tool for automation that allows to great granularity</div>

<div>Infrastructure control that is easy verbose and open source.</div>

<div>Mission critical automation to manage hundreds of servers (vm and hardware) - simple, safe and powerful.</div>

<div>an automation tool that can be used to setup and/or configure several resources</div>

<div>Maximum automation</div>

<div>Ansible is (currently) the best tool to configure any system.</div>

<div>frustrating but indispensable</div>

<div>It helps us automate the manual tasks required for deploying or maintaining a product, making the tasks easier.</div>

<div>great tool with lack of support things for infra that terraform supports so it's meaning will be decreasing over the time (which is fucking sad)</div>

<div>Idempotent, consistent, extensible, open-source</div>

<div>Infrastructuremanagement  Infrastructuredeployment  Homelabmanagement</div>

<div>An epitome of innovation and efficiency. Ansible is what happens when you combine really smart brains with hands that hate doing unnecessary hard work.</div>

<div>Peace of mind</div>

<div>automation</div>

<div>Keeping things less complicated.</div>

<div>Automation => More time to enjoy Life & Sunshine!</div>

<div>(aspirational of what I want it to mean) A kind, inclusive, community-based software package for automating system maintenance tasks.</div>

<div>Human readable semi-declarative infrastructure configuration documentation</div>

<div>Automation and innovation through open sourve</div>

<div>I started as a system administrator, doing alot of tasks manually, which was sometimes pretty time consuming. With ansible those mundane tasks are out of my mind and I am super into DevOps now. Thank you Ansible Community!</div>

<div>Freedom to automate</div>

<div>We use it as it is agent-less!</div>

<div>A more well-structured/maintained, but less powerful alternative to Salt.</div>

<div>Ansible is the way one automate and write scripts for IT industry.</div>

<div>Simple procedural configuration of systems using a clear language.</div>

<div>A single place to control all my machines.</div>

<div>Ansible is a service that we use to manage remote systems and it keeps the state of the remote systems, ansible has three main components , the control node where ansible is installed , we have the manage nodes and we have the inventory</div>

<div>Ansible simplifies Linux and makes it more fun to setup.</div>

<div>Low-level host management.</div>

<div>Free and open source. Community Driven.</div>

<div>Ansible is the easiest and most versatile configuration management tool available, and allows me to automate small personal projects as well as large enterprise applications</div>

<div>I use it very often to automate Software installation and configuration on both Windows and Linux. It has become invaluable. Absolutely great tool. Love it.</div>

<div>Open Source, Community Driven, Agentless, Automation</div>

<div>A way for RedHat to try to strongarm customers into using proprietary software.</div>

<div>Automation tools to manage resources</div>

<div>Automate Systems Configuration Management</div>

<div>Ansible means I have the freedom to leverage Infrastructure-as-Code to automate the configuration of any device in my fleet without limits.</div>

<div>Blissful maintenance of a Docker Swarm</div>

<div>agent-less, good documentation, good choice of galaxy collections</div>

<div>Reliable, powerful, helpful debug output, crazy confusing versioning, strong community, excellent documentation, open source, well supported</div>

<div>Self documented human readable deployment recipes.</div>

<div>Hi!  Just started using Ansible. Thanks for the documentation, almost all questions are closed by the documentation.  Nikolay.</div>

<div>It means the ability to administer my self-hosted servers with configuration-as-code—without having to rely on cloud services.</div>

<div>Personally, for me Ansible is an incredibly useful tool!  It's relatively simple to get started with, and it's open source, which means that there's a large community behind it using it, helping to build and maintain it; this is where a lot of Ansible's power comes from (backed by a large company, and used by many).  Also very importantly, it's free to use by anyone!</div>

<div>a perfect tool for infrastructure reproductibility, and collaborative work on devops</div>

<div>Best script system, flexible, universal</div>

<div>what a complcated POS</div>

<div>Automation</div>

<div>Powerful tool to assist in remote state management. Not limited to configuration but more of a template execution engine to perform repetitive remote tasks and ensure accuracy</div>

<div>Automating the Process of monitoring  servers and tasks</div>

<div>saltstack is not available, frustration, poor documentation</div>

<div>i mag des net</div>

<div>The one tool for all my configuration needs!</div>

<div>A tool to streamline machine installation</div>

<div>A tool to make infrastructure as a code</div>

<div>NA</div>

<div>Powerful, flexible and easy to use open source system deployment toolkit.</div>

<div>Low Level infrastructure Management</div>

<div>Ansible is an open source project, that allows to treat infrastructure and configuration as code (with code reviews and configuration kept in code repositories), and that allows the automation of tasks on that infrastructure</div>

<div>Structure, automation, IaC</div>

<div>Free as in freedom, universal and simple system of configuration management&deployment. Preferred openstack installation method.</div>

<div>Automating repetitive manual steps, making sure systems are identical</div>

<div>Infrastructure as code</div>

<div>Ansible is essential for us to automate our Cisco ACI fabric.</div>

<div>We can automate systems and software so that updates become easier</div>

<div>Please replace jinja2</div>

<div>it is a configuration management tool</div>

<div>quick easy powerful IaC platform</div>

<div>to me Ansible means a new automation platform which I start conquering right now :)</div>

<div>Unified control of my infrastructure and tasks with the freedom to automate almost anything and everything I want or need.</div>

<div>Consistency, reliability, reproducibility, infrastructure as code</div>

<div>Configuration management!  Simple.  Yaml</div>

<div>Configuration management with some limitations and sometimes very complex, but it gets the job done.</div>

<div>A young IBM Build Forge automation application.</div>

<div>Ansible is that tool, that is this good is hard to believe it exists.   Please let us Ansible and dont make the same considerations as with centos and companions</div>

<div>Keeping things simple and extendible</div>

<div>useful, solves management challenges</div>

<div>A tool to implement infrastructure as code to orchestrate and build modular cloud infrastructure.</div>

<div>The best tool for IaC</div>

<div>automation, streamlining</div>

<div>Managing virtual machines and their servers with ease.</div>

<div>Free (as in speech and beer) community driven tool to do awesome things without being bogged down by corporate garbage and licensing tiers.</div>

<div>A good tool to set up multiple servers.</div>

<div>Cross platform automation in a simple way.</div>

<div>a tool to normalize and setup server configurations</div>

<div>heterogenous utility</div>

<div>Meowowoowowowow!</div>

<div>Because Ansible is free(!) i was able to learn q lot about the tool it self, general automation, Linux and more. It provided a solid ground to expand my knowledge for hosting/Linux/CICD. Without it's open source way, all that wouldn't be for more.</div>

<div>do more with less;  everything is as intended.  just works.</div>

<div>The best way to speed up tedious repeating task that can fail because of human mistakes.</div>

<div>It works greatly (99% of the time lol) and is incredibly easy to read a playbook, even if you dont understand Ansible at all.</div>

<div>An easy way out</div>

<div>Ansible is easy to learn but difficult to practice it.</div>

<div>Open source, automation</div>

<div>It allows me to be more efficient in my work. Ansible gave me the opportunity to get to my current position. The impact I've been able to bring to the team has been huge. I appreciate the availability for it to be used with any Linux environment or OS and I hope that continues.</div>

<div>Configuration as code and automation</div>

<div>I am not fan at cosplaying homeless :)</div>

<div>Resilient, Powerful Automation</div>

<div>Pain. It's annoying and tedious to use. Debugging is almost impossible, and most professionals using it usually revert to testing by trial and error. It feels like years of debt owed to bad design. The user experience is abysmal.    But it's the only sane choice when you can't host with one of the popular cloud providers or you're doing some bespoke deployments.</div>

<div>Firstly, im writing from Turkey and sometimes i can do mistakes. I am using Ansible yet and nearly being 1-2 mounths. When i research some modules and commands, i can see many alternatives and ansible is meaning a huge software to manage and create something. But i want a developed Ansible like to one general modules for same alternative modules. Example, apt, dnf or yum uses own module, but the packages module usible if want to use them so if can being, ansible modules can develop like i given example.</div>

<div>Before any automation tool I was configuring servers manually, which was annoying and you never knew, which config was applied or for whatever reason.    Then automation tools came in and it was easier and, since version-controlled, kind of reproducible, what was done.    But it was always a lot of work required to get things done, either it was puppet or later terraform. It was hard to get results quickly and if something gone wrong, it was a hell of debugging it.    And finally there was Ansible, it's easy to setup, you quickly have results, and - as it's doing the things you told it to do in that particular order - it's reproducible and therefore easier to debug.  I'll never look back :-D</div>

<div>We use it at work but its turns out to be a bunch of bullshit which just boils down to writing shell commands in (several) yaml files in a "role" package (what the f does "role" mean here anyway?)    This could just be accomplished with a simple shell script, executed directly locally or with pssh/cssh/mussh with a hosts files if executed on one or more remote hosts (equivalent to a inventory.yml file)</div>

<div>It is one of my favorite and recommended DevOps tools for almost any platform there is!</div>

<div>control everything, similarly  one language to rule them all  declare</div>

<div>Configuration management</div>

<div>It means if I have some thinga running on my personal server, and 3 years later I need to move them to another server from another provider, I don't need to worry, I just run the playbook and everything just works. Which is why backwards compatibility is very important to me. Playbooks need to be zero-maintenance.</div>

<div>Automation for everybody</div>

<div>Any repetitive, time-consuming, manual activity can be automated using Ansible!</div>

<div>Automation</div>

<div>Ansible has been my opportunity to work myself into the Open Source world, forcing me to pick up everything from python and yaml over Devops and CI/CD to intimate tango's with different Linux (and Windows) OS variants and quirks.  Thank you, Ansible, and my regards to Ender when you hear 'm!</div>

<div>Constantly pushing the limits on what you can do with automation and Ansible is always there for me, pure love!</div>

<div>to live in a world that accepts to live with the terribleness of using yaml as a programming language on top of Ansible as its runtime which is terribly slow and not too bright.</div>

<div>For me, Ansible makes it possible to manage a few dozen servers with litte effort.</div>

<div>our single source of truth for all our server configs</div>

<div>First deployment VMware (ESXi, vCenter)  Deployment VM's  Configuration vSphere    In other words, everything for VMware from start to finish.</div>

<div>Ansible means automation with complexity of yaml and jinja added to it.</div>

<div>Automation of possibly everything. Deployment, Infrastructure Maintenance, annoying and repeating tasks.</div>

<div>Readable, reliable, repeatable IT from the makers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux</div>

<div>Doesn't suck, accessible to all, easy to get started.</div>

<div>Overall, Ansible is a versatile and widely adopted  automation tool that brings efficiency, consistency, and scalability to IT operations, enabling system administrators and DevOps teams to manage and orchestrate infrastructure effectively.</div>

<div>Automation</div>

<div>Dope</div>

<div>configure my nodes automation</div>

<div>Ansible is one of the most fantastically engineered tools I've ever had the pleasure of using in my DevOps/Linux career.</div>

<div>flexible and robust</div>

<div>A good workplace that allows me to develop and have fun while doing it!</div>

<div>Ansible user since 2014.    Ansible provides an accesible way to automate multiple technology stacks.  It is (was) an easy tool to understand and has a small (re) learn curve.  Keeping it accessible is key for me.  While building out the platform i feel that this is getting more difficult.     Keep investing in open source and provide open access for learning and experience.</div>

<div>Reliable and reproducable recipes for systems configuration</div>

<div>Ansible simplifies day to day jobs and automate other kind of tasks like automated patching.    The yaml language is easy to learn and can be as advanced as you would like it to be by using the jinja2 functions.    All with all, Ansible is pretty much the only configuration tool I use and suggest to use to other Linux administrators since it's easy to read and understand if you are willing to learn a new technology which can make configuration of a larger platform easier and quicker.</div>

<div>Goto tool for any automation work,</div>

<div>Sub-par commercial competitor to SaltStack, primarily enterprise-focused, and driven by RedHat. Not seen as a community project, but as an open source commercial project from RedHat.</div>

<div>CfgMgmt and InfraMgmt</div>

<div>Work</div>

<div>Cool but finicky automation</div>

<div>Automation, Future,</div>

<div>Automation and standardization</div>

<div>easy usable very useful</div>

<div>great automation tool</div>

<div>Every day Job...</div>

<div>Automation tool, making life easier</div>

<div>mise à jour serveur 16.04 vers 20.04</div>

<div>System and application configuration</div>

<div>I think the documentation is worthless. I'm sorry I company bought this, should have stayed with Puppet.</div>

<div>Ease of use, low overhead, low complexity, easy to adopt.</div>

<div>Ansible is the foundation of our small team's work, making routine jobs more reliable and letting us focus on what's important.</div>

<div>Heart of our DevOps!</div>

<div>inventorier des serveurs</div>

<div>A way to automate deployments of servers/applications</div>

<div>It mainly means "easy life as a sysadmin"</div>

<div>automation</div>

<div>Ansible is the one stop go to solution for all my configuration management, automation needs. I have also benefited from it for Infra provisioning and security and compliance needs.</div>

<div>good tool for provisioning vm-s</div>

<div>A legacy that I do not want to inherit.</div>

<div>Ansible is a fucking hell. I hate it. It raised people who use it as a shell. I hope ansible will die!</div>

<div>open-source. simple. human-readable.</div>

<div>Easy server orchestration</div>

<div>Ansible is the technology that I am still to this day more excited about in the industry than anything else other than Linux itself because it would have saved me from burning out from previous jobs. It's earnestly changed my life for the better and I desire to help continue that for others.</div>

<div>Configuration Management</div>

<div>automation; provisioning</div>

<div>daily tools for the server management and task integration</div>

<div>Ansible simplifies my life, avoiding me repeating the same work over and over, while also ensuring that work is safer from mistakes. I have been saving a tremendous amount of time since I started using it and love that it doesn't lock me into any specific technology but is instead a bridge between technologies.</div>

<div>Simplicity, Reliability</div>

<div>Ansible is an integral part of my working day. From monitoring to provisioning and managing new VMs and applications</div>

<div>Ansible enables me to administer hundreds of systems on my own, fast and reproducible.</div>

<div>for me it is like automating something</div>

<div>automation</div>

<div>More with less effort, repetitive stuff is not boring anymore.</div>

<div>Simple tasks are easy.  Somewhat complicated data handling is very tricky.</div>

<div>Autometion deproy</div>

<div>Ansible is the go-to tool for configuration management. Love using Ansible, but the documentation can certainly improve.</div>

<div>Ansible means freedom from repetitive tasks and consistent infrastructure.</div>

<div>Ansible provides an easy and flexible way to manage systems across different operating systems.</div>

<div>Ansible is my workforce to automate our standard and with this give me lot's of free time to do more important stuff that just typing commands repeatingly.</div>

<div>Flexible, yet still "human" and accessable.</div>

<div>Free (as in beer and speech), Open, non-proprietary, cross platform (redhat, ubuntu, solaris, freebsd, openbsd, windows OSX  knows about these pkg managers), portable, build, configure, run, maintain.</div>

<div>Frf</div>

<div>An awesome way to get ops people to automate visibly and collaboratively using a human-readable language, regardless of their coding background.</div>

<div>automation, complex simplicity, more free time, version control, work (a job), collaboration, testing</div>

<div>Consistent automation.   Flexibility</div>

<div>less toil, repeatability, scale</div>

<div>config management that is typically poorly written by both experienced and inexperienced software developers</div>

<div>Ansible is configuration management tool to perform tasks like updating, modifying, installing software to the remote nodes through ansible master.</div>

<div>ease of use, jumping in and making something that works from scratch was less than a days effort. Expanding the architecture doesn't require huge effort and rework. I'm completely new to Ansible but fell in love at the first sight.</div>

<div>Factorio in real life</div>

<div>>It an automation software for servers, network and security appliances</div>

<div>An image management system, which can build, scan and version images.</div>

<div>Automate everything!</div>

<div>It make me happy and feel like I have super power. The book "Ansible Up & Running" helped a lot.</div>

<div>learning.</div>

<div>A tool to help manage differents type of sevrers and applications.  But also heloing in recurrent and various tasks.</div>

<div>Go-anywhere task automation.</div>

<div>To me, ansible is a quirky but stable and conveniently unencumbered DSC tool that enables low- to medium-complexity automation in an extremely wide variety of circumstances.</div>

<div>lots of saved time, ease of use</div>

<div>Ansible is important to me as it helps me automate recurring and complex tasks.</div>

<div>The simplest of tasks or most complex orchestrations across limitless platforms can be automated with the power of Ansible.</div>

<div>The de-facto standard Open Source, Community Driven tool for achieving convergent infrastructure.</div>

<div>A free tool to automate the repeating tasks. And to reduce the complexity introduced by other (complex) automation software. Easy to read playbooks and roles. Not to steep learning curve.</div>

<div>Most complete automation platform</div>

<div>For me, it is best to use Ansible for configuring your system for the different components like networks, volumes, system software, etc.</div>

<div>I started using Ansible to automate my private MMO server. That experience took my career to the next level.</div>

<div>Configaration management tool</div>

<div>automation tool</div>

<div>To me it means automating repetivite tasks and making sure the setup steps are documented well at the same time.</div>

<div>Providing reliable, reproducible, secure and easy to patch/update services to our customers.</div>

<div>With Ansible I am able to automate everything I want with open source</div>

<div>IaC Automation tool with Configuration Management</div>

<div>automation powered by people</div>

<div>Great tool but debugging is deeply frustrating.</div>

<div>automation that works everywhere, on everything, and for everyone</div>

<div>Automating a vast number of devices.  Rolling out configuration standards across different operating systems and versions.</div>

<div>idempotent configuration management</div>

<div>The best automation tool, I’ve ever seen</div>

<div>Easy to pick up and start automating for people who don't have a lot of time to learn.</div>

<div>A tool for configuration management with a nicely smooth learning curve.</div>

<div>Executable documentation of IT infra and deployments - both to verify existing stuff and to easily integrate new things while staying human readable</div>

<div>Documentation that does the thing it describes.</div>

<div>Ansible has completely revolutionized the way I approach my job in IT! I use it everywhere I have the chance and encourage others on my team to take the time to learn the fundamentals.</div>

<div>Automated system deployment, configuration management and system administration</div>

<div>Time saving</div>

<div>Configure the system simple</div>

<div>Automation that is simple, flexible, powerful. Lowers the barrier to entry for newcomers in the automation space.</div>

<div>it is my livelihood.    I'm presenting ansible workshops, writing plugins, contributing to modules, collections, etc. All as part of implementig AAP or other projects for customers</div>

<div>Living Blueprints for Automation at Scale</div>

<div>Power automation/configuration  at work. No more duplicated tasks.</div>

<div>Ansible is super flexible and integrates well with many third party resources to automate IT infrastructure. Also great for managing and maintaining resources in highly scalable environments</div>

<div>speed up tasks for automation with a different mindset</div>

<div>Easy to learn, wide support, community, modularity</div>

<div>Automation of repetitive tasks. Automation of pipelines. Automation for monitoring recovery tasks.</div>

<div>Simplicity and making my life easier</div>

<div>Automation, process streamline opportunities, and corporation management.</div>

<div>Automation</div>

<div>Python for non-programmers or IT folks who aren’t as strong in it. Great for orchestration and administrating across multiple systems. Operating system agnostic.</div>

<div>An easy way to automate mundane manual tasks</div>

<div>Automation.  I haven't used it yet.</div>

<div>My personal little administrative assistant that makes my work day go much more smoothly.</div>

<div>Automation</div>

<div>Ansible helps in automating RHEL os patching.</div>

<div>Ansible is the standard choice for automation across the enterprise. The way it works consistently across environments is incredibly valuable, especially coming from the mainframe space.</div>

<div>Opportunity to simplify system management.</div>

<div>A great common framework for automation and sharing automation methods.</div>

<div>Everything</div>

<div>"Full infrastructure maintainer"    We should be more proactive in promoting Ansible.  We need to be more active in promoting Ansible as "IaaC"+"configuration management" ... Ansible can do both!!!    I've been to too many conferences where Terraform speakers literally bash Ansible... and I was the voice that combated them... we need more voices to cool off this behavior.</div>

<div>Simple to use in an active and welcoming community</div>

<div>Simple, powerful and flexible automation</div>

<div>A scalable (up/down), future-proof, pragmatic, configuration management solution.    I want something that can be used for small personal tasks, as well as production enterprise level projects, and  I'm happy with Ansible so far (90%).</div>

<div>Easy parallel automation</div>

<div>simple and flexible automation</div>

<div>Infrastructure glue  simple  agentless</div>

<div>You can automate everything with ansible.</div>

<div>Ansible is the the core piece to automation at the City of Denver.</div>