Red Hat Ansible development tools

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Ansible development tools are a suite of integrated and supported capabilities included with Ansible Automation Platform. Accessible through Ansible VS Code extension, Ansible development tools support automation engineers and developers at any skill level to consistently create, test, and deploy Ansible Playbooks and collections while boosting productivity and efficiency.

Installed as part of a curated package, supported Ansible development tools include:

Ansible builder

Ansible builder automates the process of creating execution environments using the schemas and tooling.

Ansible creator

Ansible creator is a scaffolder to generate all your Ansible projects and content.

Ansible navigator

Ansible navigator is a text-based user interface (TUI) to help you develop and troubleshoot Ansible Playbooks with execution environments.

Ansible lint

Ansible lint checks playbooks for style errors, best practices, and other issues to ensure the integrity of your code.

Ansible sign

Ansible sign is a utility for signing and verifying Ansible project directory contents to ensure a secure software supply chain.

Ansible Molecule

Ansible Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible Content Collections, playbooks, and roles.

Ansible development environment

Ansible development environment helps build and manage virtual environments for content development.

Pytest-ansible

Pytest-ansible enables the use of Ansible testing functions for modules and plugins built in Python.

Tox-ansible

Tox-ansible is a plugin that dynamically creates a full matrix of Python interpreters and ansible-core version environments for running integration and sanity checks.