Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Upload the container image archives in the /home/student/certified-EEs directory to your private automation hub.

1. From a terminal window, change to the /home/student/certified-EEs directory.

   [student@workstation ~]$ cd ~/certified-EEs/

2. List the container image archives in the directory.

   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ ls
   ee-29-rhel8.tgz  ee-minimal-rhel8.tgz  ee-supported-rhel8.tgz

3. Log in to private automation hub at hub.lab.example.com, using admin as the username and redhat as the password.

   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ skopeo login hub.lab.example.com
   Username: admin
   Password: redhat
   Login Succeeded!

4. Use the skopeo copy command to upload the image archives. Upload the image archives to the hub.lab.example.com server using the ansible-automation-platform-22 namespace and the latest tag.

   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ skopeo copy \
   > docker-archive:ee-29-rhel8.tgz \
   > docker://hub.lab.example.com/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-29-rhel8:latest
   Getting image source signatures
   ...output omitted...
   Writing manifest to image destination
   Storing signatures
   
   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ skopeo copy \
   > docker-archive:ee-minimal-rhel8.tgz docker://hub.lab.example.com/\
   > ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-minimal-rhel8:latest
   Getting image source signatures
   ...output omitted...
   Writing manifest to image destination
   Storing signatures
   
   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ skopeo copy \
   > docker-archive:ee-supported-rhel8.tgz docker://hub.lab.example.com/\
   > ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8:latest
   Getting image source signatures
   ...output omitted...
   Writing manifest to image destination
   Storing signatures

   Important

   The previous commands use the line continuation character, \, to split the commands across multiple lines. Do not insert a space before the line continuation character used in the docker://hub.lab.example.com/\ portion of the commands.

Using the web UI, verify that private automation hub provides at least the following three container repositories:

1. Navigate to https://hub.lab.example.com and log in as the admin user with redhat as the password.

2. Navigate to Execution Environments → Execution Environments to display the available Automation execution environments.

   • You created the three container repositories that use ansible-automation-platform-22 in their names.

   • The installer created the ee-29-rhel8, ee-minimal-rhel8, and ee-supported-rhel8 container repositories using the container image archives included in the Ansible Automation Platform setup bundle.

   Figure 12.5: Execution environments

Identify the version and release of each container image archive in the /home/student/certified-EEs directory and then use that information to add new tags to the previously created private automation hub container repositories.

1. From the terminal window, use the skopeo inspect command to identify the version and release of the container image archives.

   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ skopeo inspect \
   > docker-archive:ee-29-rhel8.tgz \
   > --format "{{ .Labels.version }}-{{ .Labels.release }}"
   1.0.0-119
   
   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ skopeo inspect \
   > docker-archive:ee-minimal-rhel8.tgz \
   > --format "{{ .Labels.version }}-{{ .Labels.release }}"
   1.0.0-128
   
   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ skopeo inspect \
   > docker-archive:ee-supported-rhel8.tgz \
   > --format "{{ .Labels.version }}-{{ .Labels.release }}"
   1.0.0-99

2. From the private automation hub web UI, navigate to Execution Environments → Execution Environments and click the link for the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-29-rhel8 container repository.

3. Click the Images tab. Click the vertical ellipsis icon ⋮ and then click Manage tags.

4. Enter 1.0.0-119 in the Add new tag field and click Add.

5. Click Save and then close the window. After a few seconds, you should see the 1.0.0-119 tag in the tag list.

6. Use the same steps to add the 1.0.0-128 tag to the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-minimal-rhel8 container repository.

7. Use the same steps to add the 1.0.0-99 tag to the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8 container repository.

Use the podman pull command to verify that you can download the following three container images from your private automation hub:

1. Download the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-29-rhel8:1.0.0-119 container image:

   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ podman pull \
   > hub.lab.example.com/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-29-rhel8:1.0.0-119
   ...output omitted...

2. Download the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-minimal-rhel8:1.0.0-128 container image:

   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ podman pull \
   > hub.lab.example.com/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-minimal-rhel8:1.0.0-128
   ...output omitted...

3. Download the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8:1.0.0-99 container image:

   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ podman pull \
   > hub.lab.example.com/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8:1.0.0-99
   ...output omitted...

4. List the downloaded container images:

   [student@workstation certified-EEs]$ podman images
   REPOSITORY                                                             TAG
   hub.lab.example.com/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8  1.0.0-99
   hub.lab.example.com/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-minimal-rhel8    1.0.0-128
   hub.lab.example.com/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-29-rhel8         1.0.0-119