Ansible Execution-Environment for all Dell Ansible Collections

Follow the below steps to build an Ansible Execution-Environment with all Dell Server and Storage ansible collections and associated dependencies such as for e.g. python SDKs and system packages.

• Install Ansible-Builder. See here for more details.

  pip3 install ansible-builder
  

• Clone the repo

  git clone https://github.com/anupamaloke/dell-ansible-ee.git
  cd dell-ansible-ee
  

• Build the execution environment

  ansible-builder build -v3 -t dell-ansible-ee
  podman images list
  

• Install Ansible Navigator. See here for more details.

  pip3 install ansible-navigator
  

• Run an ansible playbook

  ansible-navigator run playbook.yml -i hosts --execution-environment-image dell-ansible-ee --pull-policy missing --mode stdout