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Using Ansible content collections

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Using Ansible content collections

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Let's talk about Ansible Content Collections. So what is Content Collections all about? Well, the Ansible core package has a limited number of modules. Depending on the versions, it's about 70 in total. Ansible Content Collections are used to provide access to additional modules. And content collections can be installed from galaxy.ansible.com. Now in the past, if you installed Ansible, you would get more than 3,000 modules in the default package. And the problem if you have more than 3,000 modules is that it is becoming unmanageable. And that is why the Ansible project has decided to start working with Ansible content collections. The main purpose is that the responsibility for module development can be delegated to a different company or open source project. And that's why we now have content collections. It also makes that you don't have to install modules that you are never going to use on your system. Now, when you are using Ansible content collections, a fully qualified…

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