Exploring Ansible Galaxy
Welcome to our second chapter. Here, we are going to be looking at the ansible-galaxy command; we are going to be covering the features provided by the command and also discussing its importance in the development of Ansible over the last few years.
Ansible Galaxy is an online repository of community-contributed roles; we will discover some of the best roles available, how to use them, and how to create your own role and have it hosted on Ansible Galaxy.
By the end of the chapter, we will have worked through the following topics:
- The Ansible release life cycle
- Introduction to Ansible Galaxy
- What is a role?
- Publishing to and using Ansible Galaxy roles
- Ansible collections
- Ansible Galaxy commands
Before we start exploring Ansible Galaxy, let’s discuss the Ansible core release life cycle and how it has changed over the last few years, as these changes have made it an essential component of the Ansible ecosystem.
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