Ansible
Radically simple IT automation and configuration management tool.
Dev workflow and config PyPI GPL-3.0-or-later
How Ansible is used
Ansible joined the catalog on its public numbers (3,787,438 downloads a week on PyPI and 71,029 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 6 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use aiohttp (66.7%), AnyIO (66.7%), attrs (66.7%).
Ansible popularity over time
Gid Score 59: downloads 76, use in agent projects 10, GitHub stars 83, downloads trend 60 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Ansible
| aiohttp | 66.7% of Ansible projects · 32.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| AnyIO | 66.7% of Ansible projects · 45.0× more than average |
| attrs | 66.7% of Ansible projects · 96.2× more than average |
| CFFI | 66.7% of Ansible projects · 103.5× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 66.7% of Ansible projects · 61.8× more than average |
| Click | 66.7% of Ansible projects · 26.7× more than average |
| Colorama | 66.7% of Ansible projects · 72.6× more than average |
Install
| Package | pip install ansible-core |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (6) |
| Example projects | digitranslab/allama |
Alternatives to Ansible
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Dev workflow and config does the same job as Ansible: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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