Tooling Reference

This document provides a reference for the key tools used in this project.

Tool	Purpose	Example Command
ansible-builder	Build EE images from execution-environment.yml	ansible-builder build --tag my-ee:v1
ansible-navigator	Run playbooks inside an EE	ansible-navigator run files/playbook.yml --eei my-ee:v1
podman	Build, run, and inspect container images	podman inspect my-ee:v1
make	Orchestrate build/test/publish workflows	make build test publish
llms.txt (optional)	Declare LLM crawling/usage preferences	See CLI: https://llmstxt.org/intro.html#cli

ansible-builder

ansible-builder is a tool for building Ansible Execution Environment images.

• Official Documentation
• Source Code

ansible-navigator

ansible-navigator is a tool for running and developing Ansible content, with a focus on using execution environments.

• Official Documentation
• Source Code

Podman

Podman is a container runtime used for building and running the execution environment containers.

• Official Website
• Installation Guide

Skopeo

Skopeo is a command-line tool that performs various operations on container images and image repositories.

• Source Code

Buildah

Buildah is a tool that facilitates building OCI container images.

• Source Code