<![CDATA[“Works on my laptop” is a configuration problem, not bad luck.]]>“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:

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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...

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Larvitz Blog (blog.hofstede.it)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/611166dc-2260-468b-84e5-a6ecc6fbc435/works-on-my-laptop-is-a-configuration-problem-not-bad-luck.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:09:45 GMTWed, 06 May 2026 17:46:24 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to “Works on my laptop” is a configuration problem, not bad luck. on Wed, 06 May 2026 20:38:14 GMT]]>@adingbatponder Similar concepts, yeah 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116529554673651136https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116529554673651136Wed, 06 May 2026 20:38:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “Works on my laptop” is a configuration problem, not bad luck. on Wed, 06 May 2026 19:46:16 GMT]]>@Larvitz Sounds like nixOS?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/adingbatponder/statuses/116529350348252499https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/adingbatponder/statuses/116529350348252499Wed, 06 May 2026 19:46:16 GMT