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Overview

Description

Ansible Security meta Collection to install all security supported content.

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Ansible Security Meta Collection.

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The Ansible ansible.security collection is a meta collection that install all the following security supported content collections. - ansible.netcommon - ansible.utils - splunk.es - trendmicro.deepsec

Ansible version compatibility

This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: >=2.15.0.

Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions. A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions. PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.

Installing this collection

You can install the ansible.security collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.security

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: ansible.security

Using this collection

NOTE: For Ansible 2.9, you may not see deprecation warnings when you run your playbooks with this collection. Use this documentation to track when a module is deprecated.

Using ansible.security meta collection to install supported security content collections with latest available release.

    (python37) [root@fedora]$ ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.security
    Process install dependency map
    Starting collection install process
    Installing 'ansible.netcommon:2.1.0' to '/home/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon'
    Installing 'ansible.utils:2.2.0' to '/home/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/utils'
    Installing 'ansible.security:1.0.0' to '/home/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/security'
    Installing 'splunk.es:1.0.2' to '/home/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/splunk/es'
    Installing 'trendmicro.deepsec:1.0.0' to '/home/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/trendmicro/deepsec'

List of installed security content collections.**

    (python37) [root@fedora]$ ansible-galaxy collection list
    /home/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
    Collection              Version
    ----------------------- -------
    ansible.netcommon       2.1.0
    ansible.security        1.0.0
    ansible.utils           2.2.0
    splunk.es               1.0.2
    trendmicro.deepsec      1.0.0

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Advantage of Using this collection

The Ansible ansible.security meta collection gives a single command to install all supported security content collection dependencies rather than individually listing them.

Contributing to this collection

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the ansible.security collection repository. See Contributing to Ansible-maintained collections for complete details.

You can also join us on:

  • IRC - the #ansible-security libera.chat channel
  • Slack - https://ansiblenetwork.slack.com

See the Ansible Community Guide for details on contributing to Ansible.

Code of Conduct

This collection follows the Ansible project's Code of Conduct. Please read and familiarize yourself with this document.

Release notes

Release notes are available here.

Communication

For more information about communication, see the Ansible communication guide.

Support

As a Red Hat Ansible Certified Content, this collection is entitled to support through Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).

If a support case cannot be opened with Red Hat and the collection has been obtained either from Galaxy or GitHub, there is community support available at no charge.

You can join us on #network:ansible.com room or the Ansible Forum Network Working Group.

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Licensing

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See LICENSE to see the full text.

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Product
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4
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