A environment management tool for Ansible content development that provides isolated workspaces for development. ansible-dev-environment (ade) manages virtual environments, collection installation and removal, and Python dependency resolution to ensure consistent, reproducible development environments.
Overview

ansible-dev-environment (ade) provides comprehensive collection development environment management by:

• Creating isolated virtual environments
• Installing and removing collections with full dependency tracking
• Resolving and installing collection Python dependencies from requirements.txt and test-requirements.txt
• Installing collections in editable mode with symlinks for active development
• Managing development dependencies like ansible-dev-tools
• Providing configurable workspace isolation

While ansible-galaxy efficiently manages collection installation and dependencies, it does not handle Python package dependencies that collections may require. ade complements this by ensuring all Python requirements are properly managed within isolated environments.

Collections are installed into Python's site-packages directory, making them discoverable by both Ansible and Python tooling including pytest.

• Ansible Development Environment Documentation

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