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Ansible Playbooks

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.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Ansible Playbooks the way a machine reads it — 62 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Ansible Playbooks scores 47.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-10 · rubric v0.20.0
Ansible Playbooks Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Ansible Playbooks

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Ansible Playbooks. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 18

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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.

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Open Collections 14

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Scroll within the panel for all 14 ·

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ansible Playbooks Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 6

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Playbook Execution via API

Launch, monitor, and cancel Ansible playbook runs programmatically via REST API with support for extra vars, limits, and tags.

Inventory Management

Create and manage dynamic and static inventories with groups, hosts, and host variables through the API.

Credential Storage

Securely store SSH keys, cloud credentials, and vault passwords in encrypted credential objects accessible to jobs.

Workflow Templates

Chain multiple job templates into orchestrated workflows with conditional success/failure branching.

Scheduling

Schedule playbook runs on recurring schedules using rrule-based calendar expressions.

Collections and Role Management

Discover, download, and manage Ansible collections and roles from Galaxy, Automation Hub, or private repositories.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ansible Playbooks Context

4 classes · 20 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Ansible Playbooks API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Inventory

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlaybookJob

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Ansible Playbooks Inventory Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Ansible Playbooks Playbook Job Structure

17 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ansible Playbooks Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Ansible Playbooks Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Ansible Playbooks Agentic Access

33 operations · 15 acting

33 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

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.

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Red Hat OpenShift

Deploy and configure OpenShift clusters and workloads using Ansible Automation Platform integrated with OpenShift pipelines.

ServiceNow

Trigger Ansible job templates from ServiceNow ITSM workflows for automated ticket remediation and change management.

GitHub Actions

Use the Ansible Automation Platform GitHub Action to trigger playbook runs as part of GitHub CI/CD workflows.

Terraform

Combine Terraform for infrastructure provisioning with Ansible for post-provisioning configuration management.

Splunk

Use Ansible collections to configure Splunk deployments and automate security alert remediation workflows.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Ansible Playbooks — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Ansible Playbooks, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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