Atmos Ansible Orchestration

Atmos wraps the Ansible CLI to provide stack-aware orchestration of configuration management operations. Instead of manually managing variables, inventory, and playbook paths for each Ansible component, Atmos resolves the full configuration from stack manifests and handles all of these concerns automatically.

Note: atmos ansible playbook is designed for interactive operator sessions where a human is present to monitor output, respond to prompts, and approve changes. It is not suitable for headless CI/CD automation where no interactive terminal is available. For automated pipelines, use a dedicated Ansible CI runner or invoke ansible-playbook directly from a CI step with pre-exported credentials.

How Atmos Orchestrates Ansible

When you run atmos ansible playbook, Atmos performs the following sequence:

1. Resolves stack configuration -- Reads and deep-merges all stack manifests to produce the fully resolved configuration for the target component in the target stack.
2. Generates a variables file -- Writes a YAML file containing all vars defined for the component in the stack, following the naming convention <context>-<component>.ansible.vars.yaml.