Ansible Galaxy commands

Before finishing this chapter on Ansible Galaxy, let’s quickly discuss some other useful commands.

The ansible-galaxy command has some of the basic functionality you would expect, such as the following:

$ ansible-galaxy --version
$ ansible-galaxy --help

This displays details of the version and basic help options on the command, respectively.

The ansible-galaxy command is split into two parts, which we have already touched upon.

First, there is ansible-galaxy collection; from here, you can add the following commands:

• download: Retrieves collections and their dependencies, such as tarballs, which is an archive format for Linux machines for offline installations.
• init: Set up a new collection with the foundational structure.
• build: Construct an Ansible collection artifact suitable for publication to Ansible Galaxy.
• publish: Release a collection artifact to Ansible Galaxy.
• install: Add collection(s) from the specified...