SatelliteQE
Simplify project install requirements
Base Requirements
We currently define Broker's base requirements as the following.
dependencies = [
"awxkit",
"click",
"dynaconf<4.0.0",
"logzero",
"packaging",
"rich",
"rich_click",
"ruamel.yaml",
"setuptools",
"ssh2-python312",
]
In this list, we should immediately remove "awxkit" and "ssh2-python312" (more on that below). However, we may also be able to remove setuptools from the base requirements, but we'd need to test that. The rest of the requirements are pretty core to Broker's functionality. All of Broker uses dynaconf, logzero, and ruamel. The cli needs click, packaging, rich, and rich_click.
We do currently pin dynaconf to less than 4.0 due to an issue we had in the past, one that I can't immediately recall. However, we can also evaluate if a newer version of it has resolved the problem.
AnsibleTower and awxkit
Up until now, the vast majority of Broker installations have heavily used the AnsibleTower provider. Because of this, we have kept awxkit as a base dependency. Now that we have other teams using (and considering) Broker, we shouldn't force awxkit as a base dependency. Instead, we will make this an optional dependency named "aap", "ansible", "ansibletower", or something similar.
SSH Backends
As of the time I'm writing this, the author of ssh2-python has returned and published new versions of the project for up to Python 3.13! This means we can drop the dependency on my fork and keep the single dependency for ssh2-python instead. With this, I'm also going to not include a ssh backend library in the base requirements. Users will need to select one with the optional dependencies much like they do for alternate backends.
