The DebOps Project is a collaborative effort to create and manage a data center based on the Debian GNU/Linux universal operating system. To achieve that goal, the project uses Ansible as a base Configuration Management platform with additional software such as custom Bash/Python scripts as necessary.

Some of the goals the project aims for include:

• agnostic operation across multiple platforms, including physical hardware hosts, virtual machines and containers, as well as the ability to deploy hosts to as many service providers as possible;

• management of production-ready environments, with focus on security, reliability and stability;

• support for complete deployment process, starting with a bare-metal Debian base install and ending with application deployments with all the steps in between;

• focus on multi-server and multi-host, clustered environments, with secure communication channels setup between the hosts in the cluster;

• Maciej Delmanowski - founder, started the project in October 2013

• Nick Janetakis - joined the project in July 2014, wrote rolespec and ansigenome to aid with the management of the growing codebase, as well as the first version of the project homepage.

• Robin `ypid` Schneider - joined the project in February 2015. Author and maintainer of a few roles in DebOps and more in DebOps contrib. Reviewing and contributing to most of the core roles in DebOps. Focused on security, QA and documentation.