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

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