Ansible 101 - Episode 13 - Ansible Collections and a Test Plugin

Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) introduces Ansible Content Collections; their history, what they can do, and how they can be used. In the course of the demonstration, we also build a simple test plugin, 'blue', to check if a given string is a valid CSS form of blue or not.

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Contents:

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:28 - Intro
00:02:52 - Questions from previous episode
00:08:23 - Intro Collections and new chapter
00:09:42 - History of Ansible Collections
00:20:01 - Creating a Test Plugin with Python
00:37:13 - Creating a collection
00:41:46 - Moving our plugin into the collection
00:43:00 - Using the FQCN
00:46:37 - Collections on Ansible Galaxy
00:48:08 - Installing collections from Galaxy
00:52:55 - Other Collection features
01:00:50 - Outtro