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molecule
Install Molecule on your system.
Example Playbook
This example is taken from molecule/resources/playbook.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.
---
- name: Converge
hosts: all
become: yes
gather_facts: yes
roles:
- robertdebock.molecule
The machine you are running this on, may need to be prepared, I use this playbook to ensure everything is in place to let the role work.
---
- name: Prepare
hosts: all
gather_facts: no
become: yes
roles:
- role: robertdebock.bootstrap
- role: robertdebock.buildtools
- role: robertdebock.epel
- role: robertdebock.python_pip
Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.
Role Variables
These variables are set in defaults/main.yml:
---
# defaults file for molecule
# If you need to give extra options to pip, use `molecule_extra_args`. For
# example:
# molecule_extra_args: "--user"
Requirements
- Access to a repository containing packages, likely on the internet.
- A recent version of Ansible. (Tests run on the current, previous and next release of Ansible.)
The following roles can be installed to ensure all requirements are met, using ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml:
---
- robertdebock.bootstrap
- robertdebock.buildtools
- robertdebock.epel
- robertdebock.python_pip
Context
This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.
Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility
This role has been tested on these container images:
| container | tag | allow_failures |
|---|---|---|
| alpine | latest | no |
| alpine | edge | yes |
| debian | unstable | yes |
| debian | latest | no |
| centos | latest | no |
| fedora | latest | no |
| fedora | rawhide | yes |
| opensuse | latest | no |
This role has been tested on these Ansible versions:
- ansible>=2.8, <2.9
- ansible>=2.9
- git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git@devel
Exceptions
Some variarations of the build matrix do not work. These are the variations and reasons why the build won't work:
| variation | reason |
|---|---|
| CentOS 7 | error in click-completion setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers |
| amazonlinux | Dependency (python_pip) not available |
| ubuntu | Not idempotent on install stratis |
Testing
Unit tests are done on every commit, pull request, release and periodically.
If you find issues, please register them in GitHub
Testing is done using Tox and Molecule:
Tox tests multiple ansible versions. Molecule tests multiple distributions.
To test using the defaults (any installed ansible version, namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest):
molecule test
# Or select a specific image:
image=ubuntu molecule test
# Or select a specific image and a specific tag:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox
Or you can test multiple versions of Ansible, and select images:
Tox allows multiple versions of Ansible to be tested. To run the default (namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest) tests:
tox
# To run CentOS (namespace: `robertdebock`, tag: `latest`)
image="centos" tox
# Or customize more:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox
Modules
This role uses the following modules:
---
- package
- pip
License
Apache-2.0