Chapter 4. Tools and components

Ansible Builder is a command line tool that automates the process of building automation execution environments by using the metadata defined in various Ansible Collections, as well as by the user.

Automation content navigator is a command line, content-creator-focused tool with a text-based user interface. You can use Automation content navigator to:

Automation Hub provides a place for Red Hat subscribers to quickly find and use content that is supported by Red Hat and our technology partners to deliver additional reassurance for the most demanding environments.

At a high level, Automation Hub provides an overview of all partners participating and providing certified, supported content.

From a central view, users can dive deeper into each partner and check out the collections.

Additionally, a searchable overview of all available collections is available.

Using Ansible on the command line is a useful way to execute tasks that you don’t repeat very frequently; for repeated tasks, writing a playbook is recommended.

An ad-hoc command for Ansible on the command line follows this structure:

ansible [pattern] -m [module] -a "[module options]"

$ ansible [pattern] -m [module] -a "[module options]"