Installation

Requirements

  • To build images, you must install a containerization tool - either podman or docker - as well as the ansible-builder Python package.

  • The --container-runtime option must correspond to the containerization tool you use.

  • ansible-builder version 3.x requires Python 3.9 or higher.

Install from PyPi

$ pip install ansible-builder

Install from Source

To install from the mainline development branch:

$ pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible-builder/archive/devel.zip

To install from a specific tag or branch, replace <ref> in the following example:

$ pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible-builder/archive/<ref>.zip