Ansible Galaxy.
Ansible Galaxy is a public website that consists of I don't even know how
many prebuilt roles and collections to fit every IT need.
Now the main thrust of Ansible Galaxy is that it hosts free and open‑source
module projects for people to download and you can contribute.
You can use Ansible Galaxy in various ways privately,
but I'm going to just have to assign that to you for homework.
But just be aware.
For now, we're just concerned with Galaxy for public open source help.
So that's really the benefit of Galaxy.
You can discover ready‑made projects that can help you where
otherwise you might have thought you'd have to break out the Python
and create the code yourself to handle the case.
No, not necessarily.
You want to get good at searching Ansible Galaxy.
I use the website, but you can use the Ansible Galaxy CLI,
the Ansible CLI using the Galaxy context.
You can look and should search for Galaxy content based on categories,
keywords, popular authors, ratings just like you would at Amazon or Ebay.
Or at least what I always do is set all my search filters.
Same idea here for Ansible Galaxy content.
You're going to find that it's mostly roles, collections.
There are modules there.
But given how important and useful and versatile roles are,
you'll find a lot of roles available on Galaxy. And
collections are just a step above roles.
They allow you to aggregate multiple roles together.
Best practices are the same that you'd find for any online repository.
Read the docs,
check the reviews, and selectively trust the community selectively.