Testing

Create a Scenario

molecule init scenario fluent_bit --driver-name docker

in the molecule.yml file:

• update platforms.name, platforms.image
• add provisioner.inventory

Starting toolset container

Make sure you have docker installed, and you can start a container with an interactive shell. If you are on Windows, run directly from PowerShell (not from WSL2) make sure the the root of the repository (git rev-parse --show-toplevel) is your current working directory

Option 1

Start the container with mounting the root directory directly in an expected collections path:

docker run --rm -v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" -v "${PWD}:/usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/bcgov/nr" -w "/usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/bcgov/nr" -it quay.io/ansible/toolset bash

Option 2

we can start with mounting the root directory anywhere, and adding a symlink to the mounted path

docker run --rm -v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" -v "${PWD}:/source" -w "/source"  -it quay.io/ansible/toolset bash
# after the container started, and you have a shell prompt:
mkdir -p /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/bcgov
ln -s /source /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/bcgov/nr

Running a specific test

The inventoy can be created once, and changes can be applied as often as you need as you work on your role/module/etc. The commands below are executed from within the toolset container previously started.

# Create inventory "machines"
molecule create --scenario-name fluent_bit

# Apply changes
molecule converge --scenario-name fluent_bit

# Destroy inventory "machines"
molecule destroy --scenario-name fluent_bit

References

• https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• https://github.com/ericsysmin/ansible-collection-system