Collection Galaxy metadata structure¶
A key component of an Ansible collection is the galaxy.yml file placed in the root directory of a collection. This
file contains the metadata of the collection that is used to generate a collection artifact.
Structure¶
The galaxy.yml file must contain the following keys in valid YAML:
Examples¶
namespace: "namespace_name"
name: "collection_name"
version: "1.0.12"
readme: "README.md"
authors:
    - "Author1"
    - "Author2 (https://author2.example.com)"
    - "Author3 <author3@example.com>"
dependencies:
    "other_namespace.collection1": ">=1.0.0"
    "other_namespace.collection2": ">=2.0.0,<3.0.0"
    "anderson55.my_collection": "*"    # note: "*" selects the highest version available
license:
    - "MIT"
tags:
    - demo
    - collection
repository: "https://www.github.com/my_org/my_collection"
See also
- Developing collections
- Develop or modify a collection.
- Ansible module development: getting started
- Learn about how to write Ansible modules
- Using collections
- Learn how to install and use collections.
- Mailing List
- The development mailing list
- irc.freenode.net
- #ansible IRC chat channel
