Ansible Development Container

Molecule rules

The directory containing the rules for the molecule included linter, yamllint and ansible-lint These rules are global for all roles and when changed could break roles!

• yaml-lint.yml contains rules for yamllint
• ansible-lint contains rules for ansible-lint
• ansible-lint-rules contains custom rules for ansible-lint

Dockerfile

docker build . ENV vars are prefixed with DEV_ because MOLECULE_ and ANSIBLE_ are reserved namespaces

Available ENV vars:

• DEV_MOLECULE_RULES point to molecule-rules directory

Testing roles

Roles can be tested with the following commands, executed from the role directory, where the last part is the command executed by bash:

Docker

The Docker socket needs to be listening on 127.0.0.1:2375 see the Docker docs

Linux

docker run -it -v $(pwd):/data/$(basename ~+) \
    -w /data/$(basename ~+) \
    -e LOCAL_USER_ID=`id -u $USER` \
    -e LOCAL_GROUP_ID=`getent group lxd | cut -d: -f3` \
    lansible/ansible-dev-container:2.6 molecule test

Windows

docker run -it -v ${PWD}:/data/$(Split-Path -Path $PWD -Leaf) \
    -w /data/$(Split-Path -Path $PWD -Leaf) \
    lansible/ansible-dev-container:2.6 molecule test