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Chapter 4. Tools and components

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Learn more about the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform tools and components you will use in creating automation execution environments.

4.1. About Ansible Builder

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 or by the user.

Before Ansible Builder was developed, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform users could run into dependency issues and errors when creating custom virtual environments or containers that included all of the required dependencies installed.

Now, with Ansible Builder, you can easily create a customizable automation execution environments definition file that specifies the content you want to be included in your automation execution environments such as collections, third-party Python requirements, and system-level packages. This allows you to fulfill all of the necessary requirements and dependencies to get jobs running.

Note

Red Hat currently does not support users who choose to provide their own container images when building automation automation execution environments.

4.2. Uses for automation content navigator

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

  • Launch and watch jobs and playbooks.
  • Share stored, completed playbook and job run artifacts in JSON format.
  • Browse and introspect automation execution environments.
  • Browse your file-based inventory.
  • Render Ansible module documentation and extract examples you can use in your playbooks.
  • View a detailed command output on the user interface.

4.3. About automation hub

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.

4.4. About the Ansible command line interface

Using Ansible on the command line is a useful way to run tasks that you do not repeat very often. The recommended way to handle repeated tasks is to write a playbook.

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

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

4.5. Additional resources

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