ansible-builder

Used for creating an ansible execution environment

Execution environment

Components

• The environment consists of the following components
  1. Ansible Core
  2. Ansible Runner
  3. Ansible Collections

How is it created

• First we start by downloading ansible-builder via pip3 install ansible-builder
• Next we create the execution-environment.yml which specifies the aforementioned components
• Invoking the command ansible-builder create --verbosity 3 results in generating both the Dockerfile and the build Context directory

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CI Setup

• Github Actions is being used for building the Container image relying on the Containerfile generated by ansible-builder
• The image is stored in Github Container registry and can be pulled via podman pull ghcr.io/thejaxon/ansible:0.1

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Useful resources

1. V3 Format
2. How to create execution environments using ansible-builder