Ansible Automation Platform, Powered by Arch Linux. BTW.

Table of Contents Table of Contents The Proof It Works (For One Job, At Least) Why This Is Even Possible The Experiment: A Containerfile With Intent Step 1: Install The Tools, Remove The Inhibitions Step 2: Give Pacman A Fake Identity Step 3: Let Pip Think About What We’ve Done Step 4: Put On The Runner Uniform Why This Is A Bad Idea The Proper Approach The Honest Assessment Back in February, I put RHEL on a ZFS root filesystem. Apparently, getting that to boot did not satisfy my need to make perfectly respectable enterprise software participate in questionable activities. This time, the question was: “An execution environment is just a container with Ansible in it. What happens if the container is Arch Linux?” The answer is that it can run a job in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The follow-up question should have been whether that was a good idea. Instead, I gave it SSH credentials and selected Patch RHEL Systems. Let me be absolutely clear: this is unsupported. Please don’t…