A comprehensive guide for setting up development environments to work with AAP.
An Ansible Developer Node is a development environment (IDE) equipped with a curated suite of tools designed to streamline the creation, testing, and deployment of Ansible automation content.
- ansible-core: The foundational automation engine.
- ansible-builder: Builds execution environments using defined schemas.
- ansible-creator: Scaffolds Ansible projects and content.
- ansible-lint: Checks playbooks for style issues and best practices.
- ansible-navigator: A text-based UI for developing and troubleshooting content.
- ansible-sign: Signs and verifies Ansible content for security.
- molecule: Facilitates testing of roles, playbooks, and collections.
- pytest-ansible: Extends pytest for testing Ansible modules and plugins.
- tox-ansible: Runs tests across multiple Python and Ansible versions.
- ansible-dev-environment: Manages virtual environments for development.
- VS Code Extension: Adds Ansible language support, auto-completion, linting, and diagnostics.
- Dev Containers: Containerized environments using Podman or Docker for isolated development.
- Python 3.10+: Required for compatibility with the dev tools.
- Access to Red Hat's container registry (registry.redhat.io) is needed to pull dev containers and execution environments.