kmkamyk/ibmpower-ee repository overview

⁠IBM Power Execution Environment (EE) – Overview

IBM Power EE is a pre-built Ansible Execution Environment container designed for automating IBM Power Systems, AIX, VIOS, IBM i, and related Linux/Unix hosts. It provides all necessary Ansible collections, Python dependencies, and system libraries to simplify automation workflows on Power platforms.

⁠Included Collections

• IBM Power Collections

  • ibm.power_hmc – manage HMC (Hardware Management Console)
  • ibm.power_aix – AIX system automation
  • ibm.power_vios – VIOS management
  • ibm.power_ibmi – IBM i automation
  • enfence.powerha_aix – PowerHA clustering tasks
  • ibm.powervc – PowerVC management

• Community Collections

  • community.general – general Linux/Unix modules
  • ansible.posix – POSIX-compliant tasks for Unix/Linux systems
  • community.crypto – cryptographic operations
  • community.network – network device automation
  • ansible.utils – utility plugins and modules

• Optional Collections

  • redhatinsights.insights – for reporting and integration with Red Hat Insights

⁠System Dependencies

• Python 3.11 – for Ansible and collection requirements
• Essential system packages: Git, rsync, sshpass, development tools (gcc, make, cmake)
• Python libraries: paramiko, ncclient, pywinrm, pypsrp, pykerberos, pyOpenSSL

⁠Features

• Ready-to-use Ansible EE for IBM Power platforms
• Supports multi-architecture: amd64, arm64
• Includes build scripts and bindings for reproducible builds
• Works locally or in CI/CD pipelines

⁠Usage Example

# Pull the image from Docker Hub
docker pull kmkamyk/ibmpower-ee:latest

# Run interactively
docker run -it --rm kmkamyk/ibmpower-ee:latest bash

# Use with ansible-runner
ansible-runner run ./my-playbooks -p playbook.yml -e @extra_vars.yml -i inventory