Role Name

This role prepares a Debian/Ubuntu host to develop Ansible roles with molecule.

It installes the required Debian Packages, but not Ansible. The ansible Package is instead blocked for apt. The role creates virtual Python environments for each listed developer. Inside these virtual environments, ansible and molecule are installed as pip packages.

Requirements

In order to provision test instances with molecule, you need one of the supported drivers (see https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html#driver). You may need to install Docker, Vagrant, Virtualbox or something alike.

Role Variables

This role requires one variable to be defined:

• a dictionary with the pip packages to be installed in the venv.

pip_packages:
  - setuptools
  - ansible==2.8.0
  - molecule==2.20

If the development host needs to use a proxy, you can optionally configure it for pip:

pip_proxy: "https://<HostnameOrIp>:<PortIfNeeded>/"

Setting this variable also causes the role to copy a pip.config file into the venv. It configures pip to ignore TLS cert errors when accessing the pip repositories (see templates/pip.conf.j2)

Dependencies

This role has no dependecies. But using other roles (like docker) may be useful.

Example Playbook

- hosts: ansible-dev-hosts
  vars:
    pip_packages:
    - setuptools
    - ansible==2.8.0
    - molecule==2.20
    pip_proxy: "https://192.168.0.1:8080/"
  tasks:
    - include_role: 
        name: aaz1170.ansible-dev

License

BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2020 by aaz1170