Ansible Galaxy

NORA acts as a caching proxy for Ansible Galaxy (v3 API). Collection tarballs are immutably cached; metadata uses TTL-based refresh. This is a proxy-only registry — publishing collections is not supported.

Client Configuration

Install collections through NORA:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.general -s http://nora.example.com:4000/ansible/

Or configure it permanently in ansible.cfg:

[galaxy]
server_list = nora

[galaxy_server.nora]
url = http://nora.example.com:4000/ansible/

Upstream Proxy

config.toml:

[ansible]
enabled = true
proxy = "https://galaxy.ansible.com"
proxy_timeout = 30

Environment variables:

Variable	Description	Default
NORA_ANSIBLE_ENABLED	Enable Ansible Galaxy proxy	false
NORA_ANSIBLE_PROXY	Upstream Galaxy server URL	https://galaxy.ansible.com
NORA_ANSIBLE_PROXY_AUTH	Upstream auth (user:pass)	—
NORA_ANSIBLE_PROXY_TIMEOUT	Upstream timeout in seconds	30

Features

Feature	Status	Notes
Collection list	Full	TTL-cached
Collection detail	Full	TTL-cached
Collection versions	Full	TTL-cached
Version detail	Full	TTL-cached
Tarball download	Full	Immutable cache
Collection publish	—	Proxy-only (read)

Known Limitations

• Proxy-only: ansible-galaxy collection publish is not supported. NORA caches collections downloaded from the upstream server.
• Disabled by default. Set NORA_ANSIBLE_ENABLED=true to activate.