Communicating¶

Code of Conduct
Mailing list information
IRC channels
Ansible Tower support questions

Code of Conduct ¶

Please read and understand the Community Code of Conduct.

Mailing list information ¶

Ansible has several mailing lists. Your first post to the mailing list will be moderated (to reduce spam), so please allow up to a day or so for your first post to appear.

Ansible Announce list is a read-only list that shares information about new releases of Ansible, and also rare infrequent event information, such as announcements about an upcoming AnsibleFest, which is our official conference series. Worth subscribing to!
Ansible AWX List is for Ansible AWX the upstream version of Red Hat Ansible Tower
Ansible Container List is for users and developers of the Ansible Container project.
Ansible Development List is for learning how to develop on Ansible, asking about prospective feature design, or discussions about extending ansible or features in progress.
Ansible Lockdown List is for all things related to Ansible Lockdown projects, including DISA STIG automation and CIS Benchmarks.
Ansible Outreach List help with promoting Ansible and Ansible Meetups
Ansible Project List is for sharing Ansible tips, answering questions, and general user discussion.
Molecule Discussions is designed to aid with the development and testing of Ansible roles with Molecule.

To subscribe to a group from a non-Google account, you can send an email to the subscription address requesting the subscription. For example: ansible-devel+subscribe@googlegroups.com

IRC channels ¶

Ansible has several IRC channels on Freenode.

Our IRC channels may require you to register your nickname. If you receive an error when you connect, see Freenode’s Nickname Registration guide for instructions.

General channels ¶

#ansible - For general use questions and support.
#ansible-devel - For discussions on developer topics and code related to features or bugs.
#ansible-meeting - For public community meetings. We will generally announce these on one or more of the above mailing lists. See the meeting schedule and agenda page

Working groups ¶

Many of our community Working Groups meet on Freenode IRC channels. If you want to get involved in a working group, join the channel where it meets or comment on the agenda.

Amazon (AWS) Working Group - #ansible-aws
Ansible Lockdown Working Group | gh/ansible/ansible-lockdown - #ansible-lockdown- Security playbooks/roles
AWX Working Group - #ansible-awx - Upstream for Ansible Tower
Azure Working Group - #ansible-azure
Community Working Group - #ansible-community - Including Meetups
Container Working Group - #ansible-container
Contributor Experience Working Group - #ansible-community
Docker Working Group - #ansible-devel
Documentation Working Group- #ansible-docs
Galaxy Working Group - #ansible-galaxy
JBoss Working Group - #ansible-jboss
Kubernetes Working Group - #ansible-kubernetes
Lightbulb Training - #ansible-lightbulb - Ansible training
Linode Working Group - #ansible-linode
Molecule Working Group | molecule.io - #ansible-molecule - testing platform for Ansible playbooks and roles
Network Working Group - #ansible-network
Remote Management Working Group - #ansible-devel
Testing Working Group - #ansible-devel
VMware Working Group - #ansible-vmware
Windows Working Group - #ansible-windows

Want to form a new Working Group?

Regional and Language-specific channels ¶

#ansible-es - Channel for Spanish speaking Ansible community.
#ansibleu - Channel for the European Ansible Community.
#ansible-fr - Channel for French speaking Ansible community.
#ansiblezh - Channel for Zurich/Swiss Ansible community.

The Ansible community holds regular IRC meetings on various topics, and anyone who is interested is invited to participate. For more information about Ansible meetings, consult the meeting schedule and agenda page.

Ansible Tower support questions ¶

Red Hat Ansible Tower is a UI, Server, and REST endpoint for Ansible. The Red Hat Ansible Automation subscription contains support for Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation for Networking, and more.

If you have a question about Ansible Tower, visit Red Hat support rather than using the IRC channel or the general project mailing list.