Risk-Aware Infrastructure Automation: A Practical Framework for Secure and Maintainable Ansible Playbooks

Author(s)	Praveen Chaitanya Jakku
Country	United States
Abstract	Infrastructure automation has become a regular part of modern IT operations. As organizations move toward cloud platforms, hybrid environments, and faster delivery cycles, tools such as Ansible help teams reduce manual work and keep systems consistent. However, automation also brings risk when playbooks are written without proper structure, validation, access control, and secrets management. This article presents a practical framework for writing risk-aware Ansible playbooks. The framework focuses on modular design, environment separation, secure variable handling, idempotency, least privilege, validation, and auditability. The goal is to help DevOps and operations teams use Ansible not only as an automation tool, but also as a controlled method for improving infrastructure reliability and security.
Keywords	Ansible, Infrastructure Automation, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, Configuration Management, Security Automation, Risk Management
Field	Engineering
Published In	Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2021
Published On	2021-02-05
DOI	https://doi.org/10.70528/IJLRP.v2.i2.2165
Short DOI	https://doi.org/hb2sh5

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