molecule VS community

Hell, the ansible roles I maintain use Molecule for testing.

The Ansible team announced at AnsibleFest and Ansible Community Days last month that Molecule will be released as a developer preview on its way to being a fully supported part of the Ansible platform. In order to achieve this, Molecule will need to be streamlined and refocused as a test runner for functional testing of Ansible playbooks and roles using Ansible itself. This will require a number of breaking changes to happen before releasing “Molecule 6” in order to do all of this. You can read about the changes here and we welcome your questions and feedback on their roll out: https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule/milestone/35

I would recommend you to use roles instead of just playbooks and to test them with molecule. Molecule allows you to quickly test your Ansible roles in a fresh Arch Linux podman container, completely isolated from your real system.

Please post comments on https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule/discussions/3555

Projects to make it easier to write and test Ansible Content. Includes VScode extension, language server, ansible-lint, molecule, ansible-navigator and potentially other development goodies. To see what's planned, and how you can help checkout the foundation-devtools project board

I’m assuming you are using Molecule: https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule

Please upvote your prefered answer from the https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule/discussions/3130 survey which proposed joining ansible-lint and ansible-molecule channels when we move them from freenode irc to libera.chat. There is also an option to keep the channels separated.

Just as a heads up, Molecule has a very active discussion area on GitHub.

Ansible Molecule

But to be fair, a lot has changed since 2017 :)

2023-06-28: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)

2023-06-13: DaWGs meeting, 15:00 UTC

Updates from Ansible networking team. * We have enabled periodic jobs through GHA for network collections. * We are working on community.ioscm collection which works for iosxe on controller mode, when the appliance is in sd-wan infrastructure! * IRC Meeting changes. * We want someone who will look into ansible-lint fixes for community.network collection.

Please come learn a little about the Edge Working Group and join us in our #edge:ansible.com Matrix room (bridged to #ansible-edge on irc.libera.chat).

2022-10-26: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (topic: Decide what contingencies to activate for any blockers that do not meet the deadline)

2022-10-12: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (topic: List any backwards incompatible collection releases that beta1 should try to accommodate)

2022-09-07: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)

2022-08-30: DaWGs meeting, 15:00 UTC

The Ansible Contributor Summit will be held the day before AnsibleFest 2022 on October 17, 2022, where participants will be able to join both in-person (in Chicago, IL, USA) and online. Please check out the details on Eventbrite and pre-register for the event as early as possible!

If you'd like to join the Ansible Contributor Summit, please pre-register to get on the invite list, so you can add the Contributor Summit Pass as a free option during the AnsibleFest registration!