Ansible Like a Pro — Part 2: Building a Real Execution Environment
Series: Ansible Like a Pro Part 1: Why Ansible Won Config Management — Config management landscape, why Ansible won, the architecture of ansible-navigator and execution environments Part 2 ← You are here — Building a real execution environment: pinned and private collections, Python dependency conflicts, the additional_build_steps escape hatch, and a local registry for sharing Part 3: Writing Your First Playbook with Navigator — Inventories, your first real playbook, the navigator TUI versus stdout, artifacts and replay, and the first-week mistakes In Part 1 we built an execution environment. Twenty lines of YAML, one ansible-builder build, and we were running playbooks inside a container. That was the toy. ...