Based on previous posts, you probably have created an ansible execution environment.

After you have created an execution environment, how do you test it?

The new ansible CLI tool to run an ansible playbook is called “ansible-navigator”.
It’s not only a ansible-playbook execution binary, but it has more features to it such as:

• Review and explore available collections
• Review and explore current Ansible configuration
• Review and explore Ansible documentation
• Review execution environment images available locally
• Review and explore an inventory
• Run and explore a playbook

But for the testing, this is what you need to do to test the newly created execution environment.

$ ansible-navigator run -eei localhost/<newly created EE name> --pp never <test ansible playbook>.yml

From above, the important option is “–pp never” which stands for “pull policy” “never”.
This means that, since it’s already on the localhost, please don’t download the image.
If for some reason, you forget the option, you will see the following error;

Trying to pull localhost/<new ee name>:latest...
WARN[0000] failed, retrying in 1s ... (1/3). Error: initializing source docker://localhost/<new ee name>:latest: pinging container registry localhost: Get "https://localhost/v2/": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:443: connect: connection refused
WARN[0001] failed, retrying in 1s ... (2/3). Error: initializing source docker://localhost/<new ee name>:latest: pinging container registry localhost: Get "https://localhost/v2/": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:443: connect: connection refused
WARN[0002] failed, retrying in 1s ... (3/3). Error: initializing source docker://localhost/<new ee name>:latest: pinging container registry localhost: Get "https://localhost/v2/": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:443: connect: connection refused
Error: initializing source docker://localhost/<new ee name>:latest: pinging container registry localhost: Get "https://localhost/v2/": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:443: connect: connection refused
[ERROR]: Execution environment pull failed

Also, the ansible-navigator’s default UI mode is “TUI” mode rather than printing out errors to stdout. If you would like to run ansible-navigator in stdout mode, just add an option;

$ ansible-navigator run --eei localhost/<newly created ee> --pp never <test ansible>.yml --mode stdout