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# Boardwalk
<img src="src/boardwalkd/static/boardwalk_icon.jpg" style="width: 25%;" align="right" />

Boardwalk is a linear [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) workflow engine. It's
Boardwalk is an open-source linear [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) workflow engine. It's
purpose-built to help systems engineers automate low-and-slow background jobs
against large numbers of production hosts. It's ideal for rolling-maintenance
jobs like kernel and operating system upgrades.
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jobs in a defined order and maintaining a local state as it goes; this makes
stopping and resuming long-running Ansible workflows easy and efficient.

[Read the Boardwalk announcement at the Backblaze blog](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-open-sources-boardwalk-workflow-engine-for-ansible/).

💥 __Boardwalk is alpha software. Interfaces and behaviors may change between
updates.__ 💥

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own secret management system, because Ansible already has solutions to those
areas.

## Open-Source License

Boardwalk is open source, licensed under the terms of the [MIT license](LICENSE).

## Contributing

See [here](./CONTRIBUTING.md).
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