Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

You can use the ansible-navigator doc --mode stdout command to access the module documentation provided by Ansible Content Collections that are available to your automation execution environment.

You can use the ansible-navigator images command to inspect automation execution environments and to list the collections and other resources and collection dependencies provided by an automation execution environment's container image.

Ansible Playbooks should use fully qualified collection names (FQCNs) to refer to modules, roles, and plug-ins provided by Ansible Content Collections.

The ansible-galaxy collection install command installs Ansible Content Collections on the local system. The --collections-path (or -p) option specifies the installation directory.

You can use the collections/requirements.yml file to list the Ansible Content Collections that are required for the project.

Automation execution environments can access the Ansible Content Collections that are installed in the collections/ subdirectory in the directory that contains the playbook.

The ee-supported-rhel8 automation execution environment is used by default by automation content navigator and automation controller, and includes selected Red Hat Certified Ansible Content Collections in addition to the ansible.builtin collection.

The ee-minimal-rhel8 automation execution environment only provides the ansible.builtin Ansible Content Collection, but you can also use Ansible Content Collections from your project's collections/ directory.

You can use the ee-29-rhel8 automation execution environment for playbooks that require Ansible 2.9.