Download the relevant collections’ tarballs from Automation Hub or Ansible Galaxy on a system connected to the internet.
You must now do the following actions on each of the Tower nodes:
Make a directory for collections, like /opt/collections/
# mkdir /opt/collections/
Change the file’s permissions and group ownership for the sei user as follows.
# chown sei:sei /opt/collections/ [i.e drwxr-xr-x. 2 sei sei 9 Jan 9 09:08 collections]
Modify the collections paths parameter in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg to include the following.
[defaults] collections_paths = /opt/collections/
To install the tarball, move the archive to the Tower node’s /opt/collections/ directory.
Install the collection on your Tower node using the sei user by running the below command.
# su sei - $ ansible-galaxy collection install /opt/collections/<name_of_collection>.tar.gz -p /opt/collections/
If you don’t want to change the /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg file, you may also create an ansible.cfg file in the project directory’s root of the SCM and change the collections path.
