EE community feedback, issue 1

[Andersson007]

By Felix, to take into consideration. Relates to #230

does anyone know of good (and small) base images that can be used for EEs with ansible-builder 3.0.0? https://ansible-builder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/definition/ mentions registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-21/ee-minimal-rhel8:latest, but you need an account to pull that image

Execution Environment Definition — Ansible Builder Documentation
Ansible Builder Documentation Execution Environment Definition Edit on GitHub Execution Environment Definition  The execution environment (EE) definition file supports multiple versions.
andersson007_ (@andersson007_:matrix.org)
: ^ could also be useful for ansible/community-docs#60, having some example that can be run without being a RH customer / having an RH account would be really useful

[WIP] execution environments: add EE overview page by Andersson007 · Pull Request #60 · ansible/community-docs - GitHub
Fixes #232 execution environments: add EE overview page
the https://quay.io/repository/ansible/ansible-runner images are now over a year old

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(and no idea whether it actually makes sense to use them with the ansible-builder v3 format)

[Andersson007]

#230 (comment)

[nitzmahone]

Just some points of comparison on a basic 3.0-built EE def that uses Python 3.9, ansible-core==2.15.0, ansible-runner==2.3.2, and no collections or external Python/system deps added (roughly comparable to the old ansible-runner image):

Base Image	Base Size (MB)	Demo EE Size (MB)
ubi9/ubi-minimal	97	187
ubi9/ubi	217	269
ubi8/ubi	215	310
fedora:38	196	370
centos:stream9	160	212
centos:stream8	225	321

Note that even the heaviest of these is still a vast improvement over the 816MB of quay.io/ansible/ansible-runner:latest 😆

[felixfontein]

ansible/ansible-builder#544 replaces the base image in the example (and adds some more as comments, including the original one).

[felixfontein]

Some PRs where I switched existing EE test workflows for collections to ansible-builder 3.0.0:

• Rewrite EE test workflows to use ansible-builder 3.0.0; fix EE dependencies ansible-collections/community.crypto#606
• Rewrite EE test workflow to use ansible-builder 3.0.0 ansible-collections/community.docker#630
• Rewrite EE test workflow to use ansible-builder 3.0.0 ansible-collections/community.dns#142
• Rewrite EE test workflow to use ansible-builder 3.0.0 ansible-collections/community.hrobot#80
• Rewrite EE test workflow to use ansible-builder 3.0.0 ansible-collections/community.routeros#171
• Rewrite EE test workflow to use ansible-builder 3.0.0 ansible-collections/community.sops#142

[samccann]

@Andersson007 : not sure if you captured this in an issue somewhere or not, but seems @felixfontein's use of EES in collection tests seems a good community use case we want to have in the EE docs 'somewhere'.

[Andersson007]

As we introduced community-ee-minimal (280MB) which can be freely used, closing the issue. Thanks everyone!