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- So in Ansible there's also

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this thing called Automation Hub.

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Automation Hub is a Red
Hat subscription platform

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but it's used to work
with collections as well.

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So I would like to talk about

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using collections from Automation Hub.

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So what is involved?

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Well, there are two types of collections.

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The community collections are provided

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through Ansible Galaxy.

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And there are
Subscription-only collections

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which go through
cloud.redhat.com/ansible/automation-hub.

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You will notice that on Automation Hub

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there is a lot of collections

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that you will also find on galaxy

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but there's also
subscription-only collections.

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The difference is

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that if you find it on Automation Hub

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that it's supported.

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Now if you want to use
collections from Automation Hub

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you need to go there

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and you need an authentication token.

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And this token needs to be stored

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in the ansible.cfg file

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to ensure that you have

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a smooth access to the collections

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on Automation Hub.

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So how does that work?

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Well, first you need to ensure

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that you have a token.

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And you can do that from Automation Hub

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connect to hub

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and you copy the token

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and you include it in
your ansible.cfg file.

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Before we are moving on

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let me just show you.

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All right so I'm going to

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the Automation Hub platform.

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I'm doing that on the Fedora machine

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which is using Ansible 2.12.

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(keyboard clicking)

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This is an authenticated platform

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so I do need to log in.

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(keyboard clicking)

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So now we are in Automation Hub

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and in Automation Hub we can see

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the different options

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to connect to the hub.

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And what are we going to do?

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Well, I am going to load the token

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which you can read in the description

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use this token to authenticate clients

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that need to download information

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and you can also see the token will expire

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after 30 days of inactivity.

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So that's really something

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you need to be aware of.

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So here I have my token.

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I am going to copy the token

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that has been copied

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up to the clipboard.

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And now I can put in

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all the information that I need

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in my Ansible configuration file.

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So I'm opening my ansible.cfg

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and in the ansible.cfg

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you can see that I already have

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a lot of options that we need.

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So in the Galaxy option

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we have a server list.

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Server list is a list of servers

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which contains the Automation Hub

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as well as release galaxy.

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Then in the galaxy server
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we have URL

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we have authentication URL

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and we have token.

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And I've used token as XXXX.

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Well, that needs to be
replaced with your token.

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In the GIT repository

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to make it a little bit easier.

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I already put the appropriate information

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in the galaxy.cfg

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so that you only have to
replace with your token.

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So here we have token number one

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and here we have token number two.

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And now I have set up my ansible.cfg

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and that means that my configuration

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should now be ready

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to reach out to the
Ansible Automation Hub.

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So now I can continue

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and let's before we do that

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let's have a look at the slides.

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So now that we have set up

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the ansible.cfg

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we can work with the requirements file

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and in the requirements file

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you can refer to the Automation Hub.

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So this is really how it is working.

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And after installing collections

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from Automation Hub in this specific way

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you have your supported
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Obviously what I'm doing right here

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I'm on Fedora

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and on Fedora using collections

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from Automation Hub

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that's not really going to bring you

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a supported environment.

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The idea is that

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you do it in a complete
supported ecosystem

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preferably with a Red Hat Ansible binaries

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or some supported platform as well.

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Although this is opening an option

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to use supported collections

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on an unsupported platform.

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let's see how far we get

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if you try to do this on Fedora.

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So let's have a look
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where we can see the
different collections.

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I don't care about the galaxy collections.

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It is the Automation Hub collection

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that we care about.

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As you can see in the source

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it clearly indicates the Automation Hub.

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And from there

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we can learn the requirements well

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so ansible-galaxy collection
install -r requirements.yml.

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And there we go

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and as you can see

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it's processing the
install dependency map.

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This is good news.

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You can ignore the galaxy
server, galaxy.ansible.com.

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And you know what

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you should even wonder

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if you want to to use this galaxy server

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if you are working with
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Hey before we are continuing

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let's get back to the webpage

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because did we already have a look at

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the Automation Hub packages?

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So, here we see

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what Automation Hub is all about.

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In Automation Hub

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you can see all of these Red Hat partners.

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There are 56 in total at the moment

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and let's do 100 per page.

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And you can see

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all of the Red Hat partners.

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in whatever kind of Red Hat partner

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you go into that partner to figure out

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which collections are available.

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And there you can see that for instance

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OpenShift is available

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the OpenShift collection for Ansible.

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So what is in OpenShift?

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In OpenShift we have the contents option

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and in the contents option

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we can see there's a Kubernetes option.

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There's an OC option.

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There's an OpenShift,
OpenShift, OpenShift.

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So that's the OpenShift collection.

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That is very interesting.

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Now the big question right here

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we are on the Fedora 212 machine.

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And if I'm going to use
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do we find any OpenShift?

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And there you can see

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that's an interesting one.

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We have community OpenShift stuff as well.

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Now what is the difference?

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The community stuff

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comes from the community.

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This is the good old
Red Hat software model.

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There's community software
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You wanna use the supported software

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use the Red Hat model

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which requires a subscription license

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which is why Automation Hub

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and Ansible automation platform

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in a broader sense are interesting.

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This is how you use them.