molecule VS ansible-arch

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 :)

ansible for updates, this could help with basic on how to use it

Here are my playbooks for fresh archlinux install.

I setup Arch as a docker host server often enough that I have ansible playbooks for it.

I actually have ansible repo to deploy arch as docker host just as I like.

I recently learned bit of ansible to get the arch ready for me with no chance of me forgetting something, here is the github, and here is the discussion on it in /r/archlinux

I have this ansible thing that sets my arch installs nicely to be more user friendly and have small apps that are useful, I run those 3 playbooks that get me up and running, the last playbook is for docker. So I run those, then log out, log in and shit is nicely set

I planned some bash scripts at first, but after even first quick look at an ansible playbook, it was obvious that its the thing I want, and there is unlikely something be more elegant, simpler, or more readable.