Do I need to treat collections like ansible modules or plugins?
Is there somewhere in the ansible.cfg I need to tell ansible where to look?
Do I need to treat collections like ansible modules or plugins?
Rather like more complex ansible roles, I'd say.
To learn the details about "the headline new feature going live (out of
tech preview) Ansible in 2.9" see " Notes from the AnsibleFest Atlanta 2019
Ansible Contributor Summit"
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/notes-ansiblefest-atlanta-2019-ansible-contributor-summit
Is there somewhere in the ansible.cfg I need to tell ansible where to look?
Yes. See "GALAXY_SERVER" and "GALAXY_SERVER_LIST"
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/config.html#galaxy-server
Quoting from "Configuring the ansible-galaxy client"
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/user_guide/collections_using.html#configuring-the-ansible-galaxy-client
"You can configure this to use other servers (such as Red Hat Automation
Hub or a custom Galaxy server) ..."
HTH,
-vlado