3.5. About Execution Environments
Automation execution environments are consistent and shareable container images that serve as Ansible control nodes. Automation execution environments remediates challenges with Ansible content requiring non-default dependencies.
Automation execution environments contain:
- Ansible
- Ansible Runner
- Ansible Collections
Python and/or system dependencies
- modules/plugins in collections
-
content in
ansible-core - custom user needs
You can define and create an automation execution environment using Ansible Builder.