Collection tools
Tools used for building, maintaining, and testing the collection.
Template Galaxy
The template_galaxy.yml playbook ran as a pre-requisite for building the collection.
make awx_collection_build
Generate
This will template resource modules (like group, for groups in inventory) from a boilerplate template.
It is intended as a tool for writing new modules or enforcing consistency.
Integration Testing
These instructions assume you have ansible-core and the collection installed.
To install the collection in-place (to pick up any local changes to source)
the make symlink_collection will symlink the awx_collection/ folder to
the appropriate place under ~/.ansible/collections.
This is a shortcut for quick validation of tests that bypasses ansible-test.
To use this, you need the ~/.tower_cli.cfg config file populated,
which can be done via the deprecated tower-cli login <username> or manually
writing it, where the format looks like:
[general]
host = https://localhost:8043/
verify_ssl = false
username = admin
password = password
TODO: adjust playbook to allow using environment variables as well.
To run some sample modules:
ansible-playbook -i localhost, awx_collection/tools/integration_testing.yml
To run just one module (the most common use case), use the -e test=<name>.
ansible-playbook -i localhost, awx_collection/tools/integration_testing.yml -e test=host
If you want to run all the tests, then you need to pass in the whole list. This will take significant time and is not ideal from an error-handling perspective, but this is a way to do it:
ansible-playbook -i localhost, awx_collection/tools/integration_testing.yml -e test=$(ls -1Am awx_collection/tests/integration/targets/ | tr -d '[:space:]')
Depending on the module, you may need special dependencies.
For instance, the rrule lookup plugins need pytz.
These will be satisfied if you install requirements in awx_collection/requirements.txt.