Ansible with GitHub Actions: Automating Playbook Runs
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Summary: Playbooks run from laptops have the same problems as Terraform applied from laptops: no history, no review, no consistency. Trigger playbooks from pull requests and merges and the git history becomes your change log. Put SSH keys and vault passwords in encrypted secrets, plan runner network reach early, and gate with syntax checks and dry runs before the pipeline touches production hosts.
Who should read it: Ansible users on GitHub who still run playbooks by hand, and platform folks standardizing how config changes ship.