Installing collections from Git

[Wei-Yen Tan]

I am trying to use a requirements file to install a collection from my own git repository.

In the documentation it says that I need to have something like this:

collections:

   - name: https://github.com/organization/repo_name.git

      type: git

      version: devel

So I have mine looking like this 

  collections: 

      - name: https://github.com/weiyentan/ansible.dbatools.collection.git

        type: git

        version: devel

This didnt work. I thought it may be that it can't get a collection artifact which I then added a release for. and changed the version number to v01-alpha as that has a tar.gz attached.

My version of ansible is core 2.12.0.dev0. I am using it within an execution environment in AWX.

Any help would be appreciated. 

Many thanks.

[phil.gr...@gmail.com]

You haven't said what error you're getting but looking at your repo, the only branch with anything in it is 'develop'

It's also not a valid collection:

ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/weiyentan/ansible.dbatools.collection.git,develop

Starting galaxy collection install process

Process install dependency map

ERROR! git+https://github.com/weiyentan/ansible.dbatools.collection.git,develop appears to be an SCM collection source, but the required galaxy.yml was not found. Append #path/to/collection/ to your URI (before the comma separated version, if one is specified) to point to a directory containing the galaxy.yml or directories of collections

[Wei-Yen Tan]

Thank you Phil for replying. Sorry I should have said develop branch. In the root directory of develop branch I have ansible.yml there. Is it not formatted correctly? I apologise if I got it wrong. It's my first time writing a collection...and consuming it from repository. 

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[Phil Griffiths]

You need a galaxy.yml metadata file for a collection, see this guide - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_collections.html

[Wei-Yen Tan]

Thanks Phil. I had to reread a few times what I put in the repo. Galaxy.yml. Not ansible.yml. Mind says one thing. Fingers does another :rollseyes:

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