Development tips & tricks
Collection installation¶
These instructions are for regular users to install via Ansible Galaxy. To setup a development environment use these instructions.
arista.cvp can also be consumed using the “AVD All-in-one” container.
Install from Ansible Galaxy¶
arista.cvp collection is available on Ansible Galaxy server and can be automatically installed on your system.
Make sure to install Python requirements afterwards.
Latest version¶
$ ansible-galaxy collection install arista.cvp
Warning
If you have an ansible.cfg
file in the directory where you run ansible-galaxy
, it may affect the directory under which the collection and dependencies will be installed.
Install a specific version¶
$ ansible-galaxy collection install arista.cvp:==3.1.0
You can specify multiple range identifiers which are split by ,. You can use the following range identifiers:
*
: Any version, this is the default used when no range specified is set.!=
: Version is not equal to the one specified.==
: Version must be the one specified.>=
: Version is greater than or equal to the one specified.>
: Version is greater than the one specified.<=
: Version is less than or equal to the one specified.<
: Version is less than the one specified.
Install latest devel
version from AVD GitHub¶
$ ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/aristanetworks/ansible-avd.git#/ansible_collections/arista/cvp/,devel
Install in a specific directory¶
If you want to install collection in a specific directory part of your project, you can call ansible-galaxy
and update your ansible.cfg
# Install collection under ${PWD/collections/}
$ ansible-galaxy collection install arista.cvp -p collections/
# Update ansible.cfg file
$ vim ansible.cfg
collections_paths = ${PWD}/collections:~/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
Upgrade installed AVD collection¶
You can use -U
to upgrade to a new version for any installed collection:
$ ansible-galaxy collection install -U arista.cvp
Process install dependency map
Starting collection install process
Installing 'arista.cvp:3.1.0' to '/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/arista/cvp'
Ansible resources¶
You can find some additional information about how to use ansible’s collections on the following Ansible pages: