ansible-scaffold-collection

To scaffold an Ansible collection compliant with Red Hat CoP practices, this Skill automates the generation of the complete collection skeleton, including galaxy.yml, meta/runtime.yml, README, LICENSE, and changelog config. It validates semantic versioning and cleans placeholder content to ensure consistency across projects.

Generating an Ansible collection skeleton requires inputs for the namespace, collection name, path, description, author, license, repository URL, initial roles, plugins, and CI/CD preferences. These inputs ensure the automated skeleton generation meets your specific project requirements.

Yes, the Ansible collection scaffolding process integrates with ansible-creator. It leverages ansible-creator when available to bootstrap workflows and modules, providing faster bootstrapping across projects while ensuring compliant configuration.

You can add roles, plugins, and CI/CD pipelines after scaffolding your Ansible collection. The Skill provides post-scaffold customization guidance to help you expand the initial skeleton with additional automation components and deployment workflows.

The best way to ensure semantic versioning when creating an Ansible collection is using an automated scaffolding process. This Skill validates semantic versioning during the generation of your galaxy.yml and collection skeleton, preventing manual configuration errors.