# New to Open Source - DevOps Learner Looking to Start Contributing 🙌

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-open-source-devops-learner-looking-to-start-contributing/44683>\
**Category:** Social Space\
**Tags:** kubernetes, windows, ansible-project, ubuntu, aws, awx, collections, galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [October 14, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-open-source-devops-learner-looking-to-start-contributing/44683 "2025-10-14T20:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Srchitiki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/srchitiki/32/8836_2.png) [@Srchitiki](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Srchitiki)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-open-source-devops-learner-looking-to-start-contributing/44683/1 "2025-10-14T20:06:05Z")

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HI everyone 👋

I’m Siddhartha Reddy, learning & exploring DevOps tools like Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes and many others etc, …

I’m new to open source, but I want to learn and contribute open-source projects. can someone help me in contributing open-source projects. let’s collaborate to work & fix bugs together 💪

Thanks in advance 🙏

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**Author:** ![loudwalrus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/loudwalrus/32/7656_2.png) [@loudwalrus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/loudwalrus)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-open-source-devops-learner-looking-to-start-contributing/44683/2 "2025-10-15T04:09:41Z")

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You’ve tagged awx. There is a contributing guide for AWX.

> <https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/CONTRIBUTING.md>

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**Author:** ![Srchitiki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/srchitiki/32/8836_2.png) [@Srchitiki](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Srchitiki)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-open-source-devops-learner-looking-to-start-contributing/44683/3 "2025-10-15T16:33:22Z")

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Thanks a lot for sharing the guide ! I’ll go through the `CONTRIBUTING.md` and try something contributing. Really appreciate your help.

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**Author:** ![markstos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/markstos/32/9706_2.png) [@markstos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/markstos)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-open-source-devops-learner-looking-to-start-contributing/44683/4 "2025-11-05T15:10:37Z")

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On a play server or virtual machine, try setting it upby defining the server fully using Ansible. Search on Ansible Galaxy to find roles to install your software: [https://galaxy.ansible.com](https://galaxy.ansible.com)

Make a playbook for the server that pulls in all the Ansible roles needed to define it. For example, a role for Nginx, one for Node.js and one for MySQL.

In the process you are likely to find some ways that the roles could be improved in the code or docs.

Make some changes, test them in your play environment, and then submit a PR.

Or, for each role you find, look at their bug tracker and see if there are already some open issues you could tackle.

Good luck!