See below for the requirements for writing and testing a custom playbook.

Software requirements for writing a custom playbook

See below for the required software to write a custom playbook.

Tool

Description

Custom Playbook SDK

An AI agent to write playbooks. This agent is included in the Certificate Manager Ansible Sample Playbooks compressed file you can obtain as explained in Downloading the installation files

VS Code + GitHub Copilot

An AI-assisted playbook authoring (optional but recommended)

Ansible Core 2.14+

A command-line automation engine to run the YAML playbooks in this SDK 

OpenSSL

A key and CSR generation for offline testing

Network requirements for testing a playbook

Depending on the target, bulk destinations require either SSH or WinRM connectivity.