Install ansible-creator with Homebrew, pacman, zypper

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream docs
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• ansible-creator

Project history

The tool is developed under the ansible GitHub organization and documented as a CLI for scaffolding Ansible content. Its README describes two primary commands, `init` for new projects and `add` for resources in existing projects.

The project became part of the newer Ansible development tools family, where it is commonly installed through the `ansible-dev-tools` package rather than as a standalone first stop.

Adoption history

Ansible documentation now points collection authors toward ansible-creator for quickly scaffolding collection projects, including use from the Ansible extension in Visual Studio Code. That makes it part of the endorsed content-authoring path rather than just a side utility.

Its release history uses the newer Ansible devtools calendar-versioned style, with frequent 24.x, 25.x, and 26.x releases and coordinated forum announcements alongside other developer tooling.

How it is used

Users run `ansible-creator init` to initialize a new Ansible project and `ansible-creator add` to add content to an existing project. Official docs recommend installing it via `ansible-dev-tools`, which also brings in related tools for creating and testing Ansible content.

The package matters most to collection authors and teams standardizing new Ansible repositories, because it encodes project skeletons that otherwise tend to drift between hand-written repos.

Why package nerds care

ansible-creator is interesting because it packages project policy as a CLI. It sits in the same ecosystem bucket as linters and editor tooling: not needed to run a playbook, but useful for keeping generated content aligned with the current Ansible development workflow.

For Homebrew and distro users, the standalone formula makes that scaffolding tool available without asking every user to install the broader Python devtools bundle manually.

Timeline

• 2024: GitHub releases show ansible-creator in the 24.x calendar-versioned line.
• 2024: Ansible collection-creation docs describe ansible-creator as the quick scaffolding path.
• 2025: Forum release announcements coordinate ansible-creator with Ansible developer tools.
• 2026: v26.x releases continue the frequent devtools cadence.

Related projects

• ansible-dev-tools is the recommended installation bundle for ansible-creator.
• The Ansible VS Code extension can use ansible-creator for content creation workflows.
• ansible-lint and molecule are adjacent developer tools used after content is scaffolded.

Sources

• https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/creator/
• https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/creator/installing/
• https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_collections_creating.html
• https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-creator-v25-4-1/42210
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-creator