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How Ansible trended on Hacker News

Ansible was mentioned 17,933 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2020 with 251 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Ansible appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about Ansible

1. 1.Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud 556 points · 140 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough 362 points · 203 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier 346 points · 94 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? 345 points · 279 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Red Hat is buying Ansible 336 points · 182 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
6. 6.We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible 300 points · 194 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible 276 points · 208 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX 276 points · 111 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table 268 points · 69 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ansible 2.0 released 265 points · 82 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services 235 points · 78 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: Baby's first international landline 222 points · 57 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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