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Chapter 2. Installing Red Hat Ansible Inside

You can install the following Red Hat Ansible Inside components using the Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM). Alternatively, you can download them from the Red Hat Registry.

  • Ansible Core (installed via RHSM)
  • Ansible Executor (runner) (installed via RHSM)
  • Ansible Navigator (installed via RHSM)
  • Ansible Builder (installed via RHSM)
  • Ansible SDK (installed via RHSM)
  • Ansible Execution Environment (Downloaded via Red Hat Registry)

You can install all the RHSM components as All-In-One or Individually.

2.1. Prerequisites
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Ansible Inside requires a valid subscription to an Ansible Inside SKU and enablement of the corresponding Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM) repository.

Contact Red Hat customer support or Red Hat sales for purchasing or attaching an Ansible Inside subscription.

After a valid Ansible Inside subscription has been attached to your organization within Red Hat Subscription Manager, you can enable the required repository as follows:

  • RHEL 8 
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=ansible-inside-1.2-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
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  • RHEL 9 
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=ansible-inside-1.2-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
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After the repository is enabled, you can proceed with installing the Ansible components.

2.2.1. All-In-One RHSM
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To install all the components in one go, run the following command:

RHEL 8
sudo dnf install ansible-navigator ansible-core ansible-builder ansible-runner python39-ansible-sdk
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RHEL 9
sudo dnf install ansible-navigator ansible-core ansible-builder ansible-runner python3-ansible-sdk
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2.2.2. Individual RHSM
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You can install only the required components for your needs individually using the following commands:

Ansible Core

sudo dnf install ansible-core
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Ansible Builder

sudo dnf install ansible-builder
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Ansible Runner

sudo dnf install ansible-runner
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Ansible Navigator

sudo dnf install ansible-navigator
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Ansible SDK

RHEL 8
sudo dnf install python39-ansible-sdk
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RHEL 9
sudo dnf install python3-ansible-sdk
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2.3. Download from the Red Hat Registry
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Ansible Execution Environments are used in Ansible Inside as either a baseline to execute your Ansible automation with, or can be used with Ansible Builder to provide extended automation compatibility to suit your needs.

The Red Hat supported execution environments available are:

compatibility execution environment (ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-29-rhel8)
ee-29 contains ansible 2.9, for compatibility with playbooks and content written for previous versions of Ansible Automation Platform.
minimal execution environment (ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-minimal-rhel8)
ee-minimal is an automation execution environment for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. ee-minimal contains ansible-core 2.15.
supported execution environment (ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel8)
ee-supported is an automation execution environment for use with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. ee-supported contains ansible-core 2.15 and automation content collections supported by Red Hat.

Example of pull for an image

All the images can be pulled using Podman and other means. The following example uses Podman pull. 

podman login registry.redhat.io
Username: {REGISTRY-SERVICE-ACCOUNT-USERNAME}
Password: {REGISTRY-SERVICE-ACCOUNT-PASSWORD}
Login Succeeded!

podman pull registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel8:2.16.9-2
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Refer to catalog.redhat.com for other installation methods available.

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