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Red Hat Ansible Inside Installation Guide

Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3

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Use Red Hat Ansible Inside to integrate Ansible automation within your applications using the Command Line Interfaces of the Ansible components.

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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 is a product bundle of Ansible Executor (runner), Ansible Core, Ansible Automation content navigator, Ansible Builder and Ansible automation execution environments. Ansible Inside allows a Red Hat Partner to integrate Ansible automation within their application using the Command Line Interfaces of the Ansible components.

Chapter 2. Installing Red Hat Ansible Inside
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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-1.3-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
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  • RHEL 9 
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=ansible-inside-1.3-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
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After the repository is enabled, you can proceed with installing the Ansible components.

You can install all the components at once, or you can install only the components you need.

2.2.1. Installing all-in-one with RHSM
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To install all the components in one go, run the following command:

  1. RHEL 8: 

    sudo dnf install ansible-navigator ansible-core ansible-builder ansible-runner python39-ansible-sdk
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  2. RHEL 9: 

    sudo dnf install ansible-navigator ansible-core ansible-builder ansible-runner python3-ansible-sdk
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2.2.2. Installing individual components with RHSM
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You can install only the required components for your needs individually using the following commands:

  1. Ansible Core: 

    sudo dnf install ansible-core
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  2. Ansible Builder: 

    sudo dnf install ansible-builder
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  3. Ansible Runner: 

    sudo dnf install ansible-runner
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  4. Ansible Navigator: 

    sudo dnf install ansible-navigator
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  5. 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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Automation 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.

2.3.1. RHEL 9 execution environments
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The following Red Hat supported execution environments are available for RHEL 9:

compatibility execution environment (ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-216-rhel9)
ee-216 contains ansible 2.16 for compatibility with playbooks and content written for previous versions of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
minimal execution environment ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-minimal-rhel9)
ee-minimal is an automation execution environment for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. ee-minimal contains ansible-core 2.16.
supported execution environment (ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel9)
ee-supported is an automation execution environment for use with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. ee-supported contains ansible-core 2.16 and automation content collections supported by Red Hat.

2.3.2. RHEL 8 execution environments
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The following Red Hat supported execution environments are available for RHEL 8:

compatibility execution environment (ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-216-rhel8)
ee-216 contains ansible 2.16 for compatibility with playbooks and content written for previous versions of Red Hat 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.

You can pull execution environment images from the Red Hat registry using a container engine such as Podman. The following procedure uses podman pull. Refer to catalog.redhat.com for other installation methods available.

  1. Log in to the Red Hat registry. 

    $ podman login registry.redhat.io
Username: {REGISTRY-SERVICE-ACCOUNT-USERNAME}
Password: {REGISTRY-SERVICE-ACCOUNT-PASSWORD}
Login Succeeded!
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  2. Run the following command to pull an execution environment. 

    $ podman pull registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/<execution-env-name>
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    Replace <execution-env-name> with the execution environment that you want to use.

    For example, the following command pulls a RHEL8 minimal execution environment: 

    $ podman pull registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel8:2.16.9-2
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