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Ansible user journey maps
This document extends Ansible personas by identifying and describing their major steps on user automation journeys.
Ansible community personas: https://hackmd.io/pZb5w5JFRQW3RJ73n23tlw?both#/
Novice
- Learn the basics. Understand the fundamentals of Ansible automation in less than 5 minutes.
- Get started. Install the Ansible package and run a hello world playbook.
- Create a virtual environment and install additional Ansible dev tools.
User
Beginner tasks
- Installs and/or updates ansible or ansible-core
- Installs or updates individual collections
- Creates and tests playbooks
- Creates inventories
- Tests, publishes, and maintains all of these
Intermediate tasks
- Creates roles
- Creates job templates (for AWX users)
- Uses event-driven automation (ansible-rulebook - new)
- Contributes to collections (bugfixes, modules etc)
- Tests, publishes, and maintains all of these
Advanced tasks
- Creates collections (reusable plugins, roles, and playbooks)
- Creates execution environments (collections, libraries, and ansible-core version)
- Tests, publishes, and maintains all of these
