Configuring Ansible for Kubernetes

Ansible can communicate with Kubernetes clusters using the Kubernetes Python libraries or directly via the Kubernetes API, as shown in Figure 11.3:

Figure 11.3 – Communication between Ansible and Kubernetes

Ansible modules and plugins for managing Kubernetes are available in the kubernetes.core Ansible collection. (The Ansible Kubernetes collection was released as community.kubernetes prior to the release of kubernetes.core 1.1.) We will install, configure, and use the kubernetes.core collection in the following sections.

Python requirements

To communicate with the Kubernetes or OpenShift API, use the Python client for the OpenShift API (https://github.com/openshift/openshift-restclient-python) Python library. Before using any of the Kubernetes modules, you need to install the required Python libraries, as follows:

$ pip install openshift
$ pip install PyYAML

If you are using Ansible inside a Python virtual...