Ansible provides Galaxy, which allows managing packages containing roles and collections. Roles and collections can be directly referenced b

Ansible provides Galaxy, which allows managing packages containing roles and collections. Roles and collections can be directly referenced by Ansible playbooks. Galaxy enables the use of packages published directly on the public portal  but also allows managing private repositories.

In this post, we will focus on the official Galaxy portal . The Galaxy portal is fully integrated with GitHub, where various repositories available as collections in Galaxy are stored.

The structure of a collection is quite rigid, and to create one, it is best to rely on ansible-creator, which we can install using pip:

pip install ansible-creator

We then create a collection using the format github_nickname.collection_name. In my case, I used dainok.courses :

ansible-creator init collection dainok.courses

This command creates a complete but rather complex structure:

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