Emulate a platform environment locally with automation content navigator
As a content creator, you can use automation content navigator to develop Ansible playbooks, collections, and roles compatible with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. It provides seamless and predictable results across all supported environments.
- Local development machines
- Automation execution environments
Automation content navigator also produces an artifact file you can use to help you develop your playbooks and troubleshoot problem areas.
Automation content navigator is a component of Ansible development tools. To use automation content navigator, you must install Ansible development tools.
- What is 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: - Run a playbook to display execution environment contents
As a content developer, you can review your automation execution environment with automation content navigator and display the packages and collections included in the automation execution environments. Automation content navigator runs a playbook to extract and display the results. - Browse collections in a text-based format
As a content creator, you can browse your Ansible collections with automation content navigator and interactively delve into each collection developed locally or within Automation execution environments. - View groups and hosts in your inventory
As a content creator, you can review your Ansible inventory with automation content navigator and interactively delve into the groups and hosts. - Run playbooks locally with automation content navigator
Use automation content navigator to run playbooks and interactively delve into play and task results. Compare execution inside and outside of execution environments to identify and troubleshoot problems. - Troubleshoot collections, execution environments, and playbooks
Troubleshoot Ansible collections, playbooks, and execution environments interactively with automation content navigator. Compare results inside or outside environments to resolve issues fast. - Automation content navigator command reference
Configure automation content navigator settings to customize the tool for your specific development environment needs. This helps you optimize your workflow for efficiency.