Communicating with the Ansible community

Code of Conduct 

All communication and interactions in the Ansible Community are governed by our Community Code of Conduct. Please read and understand it!

The Ansible Forum is a single starting point and our default communication platform for questions and help, development discussions, events, and much more. Register to join the community. Search by categories and tags to find interesting topics or start a new one; subscribe only to topics you need!

Take a look at the forum groups and join ones that match your interests. In most cases, joining a forum group automatically subscribes you to related posts.

The Bullhorn 

The Bullhorn is our newsletter for the Ansible contributor community published in the Forum:

To subscribe, click the bell button under the Bullhorn category description and then Watching.
To publish your news item, see the About the Newsletter category post.
Questions about the newsletter? Ask us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix.

Regional and Language-specific channels 

If you feel more comfortable communicating in another language other than English, see the International Communities forum category. Currently there are subcategories for Español (Spanish), Português (Portuguese), and Norsk (Norwegian).

For more information including how to request a subcategory for a language, see the About the International Communities category post.

Real-time chat 

For real-time interactions, conversations in the Ansible community happen over the Matrix protocol.

Note

The Forum is our default communication platform. Join the forum and get in touch with the community there before considering other options like Matrix.

Join a channel any time to chat with fellow enthusiasts, participate in a Working Group meeting, or just say hello. To chat on Matrix, you need:

a Matrix account (from Matrix.org or any other Matrix homeserver)
a Matrix client (we recommend Element Webchat)

The room links in the General channels or the Working groups list will take you directly to the relevant rooms.

For more information, see the community-hosted Matrix FAQ.

You can add Matrix shields to your repository’s README.md using the shield in the community-topics repository as a template.

Note

IRC channels are no longer considered official communication channels. Please use the Forum and Matrix instead.

General channels 

The clickable links will take you directly to the relevant Matrix room in your browser; room/channel information is also given for use in other clients:

Working group-specific channels 

Many of the working groups have dedicated chat channels. See the Working groups for more information.

Meetings on Matrix 

The Ansible community holds regular meetings on various topics on Matrix, and anyone who is interested is invited to participate. For more information about Ansible meetings, consult the meeting schedule and agenda page.

Working groups 

Working Groups are a way for Ansible community members to self-organize around particular topics of interest.

Our community working groups are represented in Forum groups. See those links for a complete list of communications channels.

Requesting a forum group 

To request a new working group:

Check if there is no appropriate Forum group you can join instead of starting a new one.
See the things you can ask for with respect to working groups.
Request a group in the forum topic.
If you also need a Matrix chat channel, see the Ansible Community Matrix FAQ.

Requesting a community collection repository 

Working groups are often built around Ansible community collections. You can use a repository under your organization or request one under ansible-collections on the forum by creating a topic in the Project Discussions category and the coll-repo-request tag.

Ansible Community Topics 

The Ansible Community Steering Committee uses the Forum to asynchronously discuss with the Community and vote on Community topics.

For more information, see:

Ansible Automation Platform support questions 

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a subscription that contains support, certified content, and tooling for Ansible including content management, a controller, UI and REST API.

If you have a question about Ansible Automation Platform, visit Red Hat support rather than using community communication platforms.