Ansible automation
that thinks with you.
Run playbooks, review them with AI, stream live logs —
without the complexity of AWX or the price of Ansible Tower.
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Why teams switch
Tired of the alternatives?
Every existing tool makes you choose between power and simplicity. Kirmaphore doesn't.
AWX / TOWER
Requires Kubernetes to run a cron job
Full-stack deployment just to schedule an Ansible playbook. Overkill for 90% of teams.
ANSIBLE TOWER
$13,000/year before you write a line
Enterprise pricing locks out every team under 500 engineers. Pay to see if it works.
SEMAPHORE UI
2019 UI, zero AI, zero insight
Runs your playbooks. That's it. When a task fails at 2am you're on your own.
RUNDECK
Acquired, rebranded, forgotten
Absorbed into PagerDuty. No roadmap, no momentum, support routes to a webinar.
Features
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Built for engineers who automate infrastructure daily — not for a procurement deck.
Forge AI — built into every run
Reviews playbooks before execution, explains failures in plain English, generates tasks from natural language.
Live log streaming
WebSocket-powered real-time output. Every task, as it runs — no refresh.
Git webhooks
Push to branch → playbook runs automatically. CI/CD for infrastructure.
Enterprise RBAC
Roles, permissions, project isolation. Every action auditable.
Visual DAG designer
Drag & drop playbook pipelines. Parallel tasks, dependencies, conditions.
Secrets vault
Encrypted per project. Injected at runtime — never logged.
Cron scheduler
Schedule any playbook. Visual editor, timezone-aware.
One-command deploy
docker compose up — running in 60 seconds.
How it works
From zero to automated
in three steps.
Connect your inventory
Add servers, point to your Git repo. SSH keys stored encrypted.
Run — AI reviews first
Forge AI scans your playbook before a single task executes.
Watch it live
Logs stream in real-time. If it fails, AI explains why and suggests the fix.
Forge AI
Your playbooks, reviewed
before they run.
Three capabilities, built into every project. No setup, no plugin, no extra cost.
Pre-run review
Catches security issues, deprecated modules, and logic errors before execution. Like a linter, but it understands your playbook intent.
no_log missing on credential task → flagged with fix suggestion.
Failure explanation
When a task fails, AI reads the error, the task context, and your inventory — and tells you exactly what went wrong.
Health check timeout → root cause + YAML fix in plain English.
Natural language generation
Describe what you want in plain English. Forge AI writes the Ansible task — correct module, right options, ready to run.
"add nginx rate limiting to port 80" → task YAML in 1.2s.
Compare
See how we stack up.
| Feature | Kirmaphore | Semaphore UI | AWX | Ansible Tower |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI playbook review | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI failure explanation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI task generation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Live WebSocket logs | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Passkey / WebAuthn | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Visual DAG designer | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Self-hostable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Docker Compose deploy | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Price (team of 10) | Free | Free | Free | ~$13K/yr |
Open source
Self-host for free.
Scale with cloud.
Start on your own server today. Cloud hosting coming soon.
Community
Free forever · MIT license
- ✓All core automation features
- ✓Unlimited projects
- ✓Docker Compose deploy
- ✓Community support
- ✓MIT license — own your data
Pro
Cloud-hosted · coming soon
- ✓Everything in Community
- ✓Managed cloud hosting
- ✓Forge AI (unlimited)
- ✓Priority support
- ✓SSO / SAML
Automate everything.
Understand everything.
Your infrastructure, finally thinking with you.
No credit card. No Kubernetes. Just docker compose up.