“Works on my laptop” is a configuration problem, not bad luck.

[larvitz@burningboard.net]

“Works on my laptop” is a configuration problem, not bad luck.

Execution Environments make your Ansible control node a versioned, reproducible container image. Same artifact locally, in CI, and in AAP/AWX.

I wrote a practical walkthrough of ansible-builder + ansible-navigator, with real-world gotchas:

Reproducible Ansible with Execution Environments

A “control node” with a hand-curated venv works. Until it doesn’t. A colleague has different collection versions, CI installs a slightly newer Python library...

Larvitz Blog (blog.hofstede.it)

#ansible #automation #devops #linux

[adingbatponder@fosstodon.org]

@Larvitz Sounds like nixOS?

[larvitz@burningboard.net]

@adingbatponder Similar concepts, yeah