ansible

ansible-core — the agentless, push-based, SSH automation engine that runs idempotent tasks from declarative YAML playbooks. Use when writing or running Ansible playbooks, issuing ad-hoc commands (ansible -m), managing INI/YAML inventory, authoring roles, installing collections with ansible-galaxy, encrypting secrets with Ansible Vault, tuning ansible.cfg, looking up module docs with ansible-doc, or provisioning/configuring hosts idempotently over SSH. Covers the ten ansible* CLIs, FQCN (ansible.builtin.*), become/privilege escalation, inventory patterns, variable precedence, check/diff mode, and strategies. Triggers on mentions of ansible, ansible-playbook, ansible-galaxy, ansible-vault, ansible-inventory, ansible.cfg, playbooks, roles, collections, or Ansible Vault. This is ansible-core (the engine + ansible.builtin), NOT generic configuration-management theory and NOT the bundled community ansible package's collection modules.