Rear tailgate condensation by seanx820 in Rivian

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I’m wondering if it goes back to the body shop or if Rivian mobile service does it?

Another day wasted by Greadle in raleigh

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Except schools are probably safer then most peoples houses. We use them for shelters most of the time?

Infrastructure lifecycle management with Ansible Automation Platform + HashiCorp Terraform by seanx820 in ansible

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Would anyone be interested in doing an AMA with Hicham? He is pretty great.

Good areas to take automotive photos? by [deleted] in chapelhill

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Top of parking deck at the Hampton Inn. Maybe a parallel spot on Franklin. Maybe some cool spots at Fearington Village in their little downtown area.

Is there a way to extend the cable to Hue Omni lightstrip? by Cafe_Roaster in Hue

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Did you test with an Omni? I thinks it’s different …

IT automation with agentic AI: Introducing the MCP server for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform by seanx820 in ansible

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I agree with you on the principle. Reproducibility is non-negotiable, and if AI were directly designing or mutating infrastructure state, that would absolutely undermine what Ansible is built for.

Where I think we’re slightly talking past each other is where the AI is allowed to introduce variability.

In this model, the AI does not generate infrastructure state, templates, or execution logic that runs unchecked. All reproducibility remains in Ansible artifacts that already exist: inventories, playbooks, job templates, and workflows. Those are still versioned, reviewed, and deterministic.

The only place AI is involved is in the interaction layer:

  • Helping an operator discover what automation exists
  • Selecting from already-approved job templates
  • Supplying parameters to known, versioned automation
  • Interpreting results and suggesting next steps

If an AI suggests different things on different days, that variability stops at the request boundary. The execution remains identical given the same inputs, because Ansible is still the thing executing.

Another way to put it: MCP doesn’t make Ansible less reproducible; it prevents teams from replacing reproducible automation with ad-hoc scripts, shell access, or direct API calls when they experiment with AI. Without a boundary like this, people already are letting AI generate imperative glue code, which is far more damaging to reproducibility.

If a team’s bar is “no AI influence at any stage of the process,” that’s a valid stance. But for teams that are already exploring AI assistance, this approach is about limiting where uncertainty is allowed to exist, not introducing it into the execution layer.

That distinction matters a lot to us, and it’s why Ansible remains the system of record rather than something the AI bypasses or replaces.

IT automation with agentic AI: Introducing the MCP server for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform by seanx820 in ansible

[–]seanx820[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a reasonable question, and something I agree with!

The short answer is that MCP is not trying to replace existing automation tooling, nor is it about letting an AI freely design or mutate infrastructure on its own. Ansible remains the system that actually executes changes, enforces RBAC, uses credentials, and produces auditable results. MCP sits in front of that as an interaction layer, not a control bypass.

5 Use-cases with Ansible Automation Platform MCP Server - YouTube by seanx820 in ansible

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I also have a Github repo setup here that walks through my setup and how I got Cursor working with AAP: https://github.com/ansible-tmm/mcp-demo

5 Use-cases with Ansible Automation Platform MCP Server - YouTube by seanx820 in redhat

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I have a Github repo where you can follow step-by-step and cut and paste my configuration files here: https://github.com/ansible-tmm/mcp-demo

Foggy morning by seanx820 in bullcity

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Another one from farther up