Execution Environments

Why use EEs?

• Portable Ansible environments
  • includes Ansible core version
  • All desired collections
  • Python dependencies
  • Bindep dependencies
  • Anything you need to run a playbook

A container that has a specific version of Ansible. Can test execution in a specific Ansible environment to make sure it will work with that version.

EEs are built leveraging ansible-bulder They can be pushed to a private automation hub or any container registry Run EEs from the cli using ansible-navigator Or run in your production environment using automation controller as part of the Ansible Automation Platform If you want them to automatically occur, schedule them as a job inside AAP