# community.libvirt Collection
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This repo hosts the `community.libvirt` Ansible Collection.

The collection includes the libvirt modules and plugins supported by Ansible
libvirt community to help the management of virtual machines and/or containers
via the [libvirt][1] API.

[1]: https://libvirt.org/

## Tested with Ansible
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TBD

## External requirements
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TBD

### Supported connections
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TBD

## Included content
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TBD

## Using this collection
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Before using the libvirt community collection, you need to install the
collection with the `ansible-galaxy` CLI:

```bash
ansible-galaxy collection install community.libvirt
```

Alternatively, you can also include it in a `requirements.yml` file and
install it via `ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml` using
the format:

```yaml
collections:
- name: community.libvirt
```

For more information regarding using collections with Ansible, see the Ansible
[user guide][3].

[3]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/collections_using.html

## Contributing to this collection
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While this community is still developing its guidelines, the aspiration is to
follow the following general guidelines:

- Changes should include tests and documentation where appropriate.
- Changes will be lint tested using standard python lint tests.
- No changes which do not pass CI testing will be approved/merged.
- The collection plugins must provide the same coverage of python support as
  the versions of Ansible supported.
- The versions of Ansible supported by the collection must be the same as
  those in developed, or those maintained, as shown in the Ansible [Release
  and Maintenance][4] documentation.

[4]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html

As a fallback, the [Ansible Community Guide][5] remains our community
reference set of guidelines.

[5]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html

### Local Testing

If you want to develop new content for this collection or improve what is
already here, the easiest way to work on the collection is to clone it into
one of the configured [COLLECTIONS_PATHS][2] and work on it there.

[2]:  https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#collections-paths

### Testing with `ansible-test`

TBD

### Publishing New Version

TBD

## More Information
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### Communication

This is a small collection with a small number of contributors. As such, there
is no formal Ansible Working Group. To communicate with the maintainers, please
make contact via one of the following methods:

- IRC on Freenode in #ansible-community
- [Issues](https://github.com/ansible-collections/libvirt/issues) on Github

### Reference

- [Ansible Collection overview](https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview)
- [Ansible User guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/index.html)
- [Ansible Developer guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/index.html)
- [Ansible Community code of conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html)

## License
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See [LICENCE](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) to see the full text.