Ansible Playbook Builder

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Visual generator for Ansible YAML playbooks with apt, systemd, git, and docker tasks

DevOps Automation Presets

Play Target & Privileges

Playbook Tasks (4)

1
Parameters for `apt`
Packages (comma separated)
State
2
Parameters for `apt`
Packages (comma separated)
State
3
Parameters for `ufw`
Rule
Port / Name
4
Parameters for `service`
Service Name
State
Generated playbook.yml
---
# Ansible Playbook
# Generated by MiniToolDesk (https://minitooldesk.com/tools/ansible-playbook-builder/)
- name: Setup and Configure Production Nginx Web Server
  hosts: webservers
  become: true
  gather_facts: true
  vars:
    http_port: 80
    server_name: example.com
  tasks:
    - name: Update APT package index cache
      apt:
        update_cache: true
        cache_valid_time: 3600
    - name: Install Nginx web server and dependencies
      apt:
        name:
          - nginx
          - curl
          - ufw
        state: present
    - name: Allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic in UFW firewall
      ufw:
        rule: allow
        name: Nginx Full
    - name: Ensure Nginx systemd service is active and enabled on boot
      service:
        name: nginx
        state: started
        enabled: true

Ready to Execute

Run ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml directly on your control machine.

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How to create Ansible playbooks visually

  1. 1Set your play name, target host inventory group, and privilege escalation (become: true).
  2. 2Select a DevOps automation preset or build custom tasks sequentially.
  3. 3Configure module parameters for package management, services, firewall, or Git.
  4. 4Copy or download the generated playbook.yml to run with ansible-playbook.

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Follows official Ansible community best practices for clean, reusable, and idempotent server provisioning.

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