Create requirements.txt or equivalent for AWX/Tower execution environments

[erinn]

Summary

AWX and ansible tower are moving to using execution environments (containers, basically) versus virtualenvs, as such ansible-builder has been put together to build execution environments. ansible-builder collection documentation shows what happens, but basically if a collection has a requirements.txt said python requirements are installed into the execution environment thus easing maintenance of the execution environment.

I'd like to propose that the community.general collection begin a requirements.txt fie to gather python module requirements, thus allowing easier installation into an EE.

Issue Type

Feature Idea

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[felixfontein]

This is quite a huge task, since community.general has a huge amount of plugins and modules. Keeping a requirements file up-to-date for such a collection is quite a task.

In any case, we were about to discuss this soon anyway (ansible-community/community-topics#31).

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• lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py

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[dmsimard]

!component None

[felixfontein]

See also #4512.