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Stop installing all Ansible collections

We currently depend on the ansible pip package, which includes a whole lot of collections that we don't use.

Once installed with python 3.11, ansible takes 358 MB, while ansible-core takes a mere 12 MB. Here is a breakdown of the largest collections:

  109.9 MiB [##########] /fortinet
   68.7 MiB [######    ] /community
   48.7 MiB [####      ] /cisco
   16.9 MiB [#         ] /dellemc
   11.5 MiB [#         ] /netapp
   10.3 MiB [          ] /f5networks
    8.6 MiB [          ] /google
    8.4 MiB [          ] /azure
    5.9 MiB [          ] /ansible
    5.3 MiB [          ] /junipernetworks
    5.1 MiB [          ] /arista

We should find a way to only depend on what we need, because it will really speed up installation. This means:

And also allow users to install additional collections they need.

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