# Ansible Playbooks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ansible-playbooks/  
**APIs profiled:** 18

A curated collection of APIs, tools, and platforms for managing and executing Ansible playbooks for IT automation, configuration management, and orchestration. Covers the Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, Galaxy, Automation Hub, Runner, and Semaphore APIs that power modern infrastructure automation workflows.

## Kin Score — 42.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.2 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 31.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (18)

- **Ansible Automation Platform API** — REST API for Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower/AWX) to manage playbooks, inventories, credentials, job templates, and job execution at enterprise scale. Suppor...
- **AWX API** — AWX is the open-source upstream project for Ansible Automation Platform, providing a web-based UI, REST API, and task engine for Ansible. The AWX API offers programmatic access ...
- **Ansible Runner API** — Ansible Runner is a Python library and CLI tool that provides a stable and consistent interface for executing Ansible playbooks programmatically from within other applications a...
- **Ansible Galaxy API** — Ansible Galaxy is the community hub for sharing Ansible roles and collections. The Galaxy REST API enables searching, downloading, and publishing Ansible content. Supports v1 (r...
- **Ansible Automation Hub API** — Red Hat Ansible Automation Hub is the enterprise content hub for certified Ansible collections, roles, and execution environments. The API provides access to Red Hat certified a...
- **Ansible Semaphore API** — Ansible Semaphore is an open-source modern web UI and REST API for running Ansible playbooks. It provides project management, task scheduling, access control, and a clean interf...
- **Ansible Playbooks Auth API** — OAuth2 token management.
- **Ansible Playbooks Credentials API** — The Credentials API from Ansible Playbooks — 1 operation(s) for credentials.
- **Ansible Playbooks Hosts API** — The Hosts API from Ansible Playbooks — 1 operation(s) for hosts.
- **Ansible Playbooks Inventories API** — The Inventories API from Ansible Playbooks — 2 operation(s) for inventories.
- **Ansible Playbooks Job Templates API** — The Job Templates API from Ansible Playbooks — 3 operation(s) for job templates.
- **Ansible Playbooks Jobs API** — The Jobs API from Ansible Playbooks — 4 operation(s) for jobs.
- **Ansible Playbooks Organizations API** — The Organizations API from Ansible Playbooks — 2 operation(s) for organizations.
- **Ansible Playbooks Projects API** — The Projects API from Ansible Playbooks — 3 operation(s) for projects.
- **Ansible Playbooks Schedules API** — The Schedules API from Ansible Playbooks — 1 operation(s) for schedules.
- **Ansible Playbooks Users API** — The Users API from Ansible Playbooks — 1 operation(s) for users.
- **Ansible Playbooks Workflow Job Templates API** — The Workflow Job Templates API from Ansible Playbooks — 2 operation(s) for workflow job templates.
- **Ansible Playbooks Workflow Jobs API** — The Workflow Jobs API from Ansible Playbooks — 1 operation(s) for workflow jobs.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ansible Playbooks Agentic Access** — 33 operations · 15 acting

## Security (2)

- **Ansible Playbooks Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **Ansible Playbooks Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Ansible Playbooks Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Infrastructure Provisioning** — Automate the provisioning of cloud resources, VMs, and bare-metal servers using Ansible playbooks triggered via API.
- **Configuration Management** — Enforce consistent configuration state across server fleets by scheduling and executing configuration playbooks via API.
- **CI/CD Pipeline Integration** — Trigger Ansible playbook runs as deployment steps within Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and other CI/CD platforms.
- **Compliance and Remediation** — Run compliance playbooks on demand or on schedule to detect and remediate drift from desired security baseline states.
- **Network Automation** — Automate network device configuration, firmware upgrades, and compliance checks using Ansible network collections via the API.

## Tags

Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Orchestration, Playbooks

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ansible-playbooks/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.