u/meanmail_dev

I’ve been using Ansible for a while, and I feel the editing experience in JetBrains IDEs is still missing a lot compared to what I’d expect from a modern IDE.

Some things that regularly slow me down:
- jumping between inventories, roles, and playbooks
- understanding where a variable actually comes from
- working with Ansible Vault files
- navigating large infrastructure repositories
- YAML completion that isn’t really Ansible-aware

I’m curious what annoys other people the most.

If you could add one feature to your IDE for Ansible development, what would it be?

I’d especially love to hear from people managing medium or large infrastructures.

I've been wondering whether this is just me or a common experience.

Do you find PyCharm's Python environment management good enough these days, or do you still run into frustrating situations?

Things like:
- wrong interpreter being selected
- multiple virtual environments in one project
- uv / Poetry / pipenv / Conda confusion
- terminal using one environment while tests or debugging use another
- opening an existing project and figuring out which environment it expects
- remote/Docker environments

What annoys you the most?

Or do you think PyCharm has basically solved this problem?