Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. If you already have a set of Ansible playbooks, but just need somewhere to run them, our first template for Ansible and AWS CodeDeploy will demonstrate how a couple of simple deployment hooks will ensure Ansible is available on the local deployment instance and run the given playbooks. Alternatively, if you already have a process for building and maintaining your inventory, we've also built an Ansible module that you can use to install and run the AWS CodeDeploy host agent.