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title: Test Driven Ansible Role Development with Molecule
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date: 2019-06-02
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excerpt:
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Some resources that I found for testing Ansible roles with a tool called
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Molecule.
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tags: [ansible, molecule, testing, video]
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---
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I used to maintain a number of [Ansible roles][roles], and I recently wrote one
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for automatically generating `settings.php` files for Drupal projects that I use
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for some client projects as part of the [Ansible and Ansistrano deployment
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process][talk], as it can populate these files with credentials stored in
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Ansible Vault.
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I uploaded an initial version of the role [onto GitHub][github], but haven’t yet
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released it onto Ansible Galaxy.
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I’d seen in other people’s roles and read elsewhere about writing automated
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tests for Ansible roles using a tool called [Molecule][molecule], and wanted to
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write some tests for this role before publishing it onto Galaxy.
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I looked around for resources about Molecule, and found a [blog post by Jeff
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Geerling][jeff-post], but also this YouTube video that I found very helpful.
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I’ve since been re-writing the role from scratch based on Molecule, and plan to
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release an official version of it soon.
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{% include 'video-embed' with {
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classes: 'video-full',
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video: {
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id: 'DAnMyBZ8-Qs',
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attr: {
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height: '315',
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width: '560',
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}
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}
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} %}
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[github]: https://github.com/opdavies/ansible-role-drupal-settings
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[jeff-post]:
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https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/testing-your-ansible-roles-molecule
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[molecule]: https://molecule.readthedocs.io
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[roles]:
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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_reuse_roles.html
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[talk]: /talks/deploying-php-ansible-ansistrano
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