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Ansible playbooks are usually forward-compatible; however, retesting your playbooks with the latest software versions before releasing them to production is always advisable. Adopting continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline methodologies and tools can be useful and is generally recommended.
To upgrade an existing environment, create a new virtual environment and install the latest OpenManage SDK and OpenManage Ansible collection to this environment.
With multiple virtual environments configured, you can run playbooks in a validated virtual environment by switching environments. To make the switch, run the source ./<environmentname>/bin/activate command.