Ansible Execution Environment for Dell PowerMax Ansible Collection

Example repository to build AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) EE (Execution Environment) using ansible-builder and docker.

Specifications

• AAP version: 2.4
• PowerMax Collection: 3.1.0, defined in files/requirements.yml
• Python packages: PyU4V <= 10.1.0.2
• Unisphere version: 10.1.0.0
• Base image: registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel8:1.0.0-887
• ansible-builder: 3.1.0 (https://pypi.org/project/ansible-builder/)

Steps:

• Build EE image

  ansible-builder build -v3 -t pmax-ee:1.0 --container-runtime docker
  Please note that pmax-ee is image name and 1.0 is the tag for the image which is being built.

• Check image ID

  docker images

  REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
pmax-ee 1.0 2bf39eb5ebd0 42 seconds ago 1.59GB

• Tag image for image container registry (in this case, it is GitHub Container Registry, aka ghcr)

  docker tag 2bf39eb5ebd0 ghcr.io/<GitHub account>/pmax-ee:1.0

• Push image to CR

  docker push ghcr.io/jzhang2018/pmax-ee:1.0

Using EE in AAP

To use EE in AAP, create an Execution Environment using the above image path: ghcr.io/<GitHub account>/pmax-ee:1.0.