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User Guide

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Making Open Source More Inclusive

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Welcome to the Ansible User Guide! This guide is now deprecated to improve navigation and organization. You can find all the user guide content in the following sections:

• Building Ansible inventories

• Using Ansible command line tools

• Using Ansible playbooks

• Protecting sensitive data with Ansible vault

• Using Ansible modules and plugins

• Using Ansible collections

• Using Ansible on Windows and BSD

• Ansible tips and tricks