What are the steps to install the Automation Content Navigator on a control node?

Install ansible-navigator with dnf, check the version, log in to Red Hat's container registry with podman, and pull an execution-environment image.

1. Install (brings further packages as dependencies):

   sudo dnf install ansible-navigator
   

2. Verify the installation:

   ansible-navigator --version
   

3. Log in to the container registry (needs a Red Hat account, since this is the paid platform):

   podman login registry.redhat.io
   

4. Pull the execution-environment image:

   podman pull registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8:latest
   

Step 4 is optional in practice: ansible-navigator may download the default execution environment automatically the first time it runs. Steps 3 and 4 exist because navigator runs playbooks inside a container, so it needs a container image.

Go deeper:

• Installing ansible-navigator (official docs) — installation with a container engine (Podman/Docker) and pulling the default execution environment.