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Chapter 5. Setting up your development environment

You can follow the procedures in this section to set up your development environment to create automation execution environments.

5.1. Installing Ansible Builder
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You can install Ansible Builder using Red Hat Subscription Management to register and attach to your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform subscription. In your terminal, run the following command: 

$ dnf install ansible-builder

You can also install Ansible Builder from the Python Package Index (PyPI). To install with this setup, run: 

$ pip install ansible-builder

You can install Automation content navigator on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) from an RPM.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed RHEL 8 or later.
  • You registered your system with Red Hat Subscription Manager.

Procedure

  1. Attach the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform SKU. 

    $ subscription-manager attach --pool=<sku-pool-id>

  2. Enable the repository for RHEL 8. 

    $ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable ansible-automation-platform-2.0-early-access-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

  3. Install Automation content navigator. 

    $ dnf install ansible-navigator

Verification

  • Verify your Automation content navigator installation: 

    $ ansible-navigator --help

The following example demostrates a successful installation:

navigator stdout

Base images that ship with AAP 2.0 are hosted on the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog (registry.redhat.io).

Prerequisites

  • You have a valid Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform subscription.

Procedure

  1. Log in to registry.redhat.io 

    $ podman login registry.redhat.com

  2. Pull the base images from the registry 

    $ podman pull registry.redhat.io/aap/<image name>
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