gwerlas/ansible-core repository overview

⁠Ansible core

Container image with ansible-core⁠ alone, one tag per minor version, for linting and testing Ansible content: ansible-test sanity and ansible-test units run without downloading anything, their requirements are already in the image.

It also runs playbooks: what ansible.builtin needs on the controller beyond Python is installed too, such as the ssh client and sshpass for the default connection, GNU tar, Info-ZIP's unzip, xz and zstd for unarchive, pexpect for expect and passlib for password_hash. Windows connections (winrm, psrp) are not supported.

GitLab Project : yoanncolin/container-images/ansible-core⁠.

⁠Tags

Every tag below is rebuilt weekly, to pick up ansible-core patch releases and Alpine security updates. Each build is also published under its full version (2.21.4), to pin a patch release.

Each core runs on the Python its Alpine release ships, chosen inside the core's controller range. A core dropped from this table keeps its tags, which are no longer rebuilt.

⁠Usage

The container runs as the build user (non-root). ansible-test only runs from ansible_collections/<namespace>/<name> and writes its results there, so the collection must be checked out under such a path, writable by that user.

GitLab CI usage, one job per core your collection supports; GIT_CLONE_PATH puts the checkout where ansible-test expects it :

sanity:
  image: gwerlas/ansible-core:$CORE
  variables:
    GIT_CLONE_PATH: $CI_BUILDS_DIR/ansible_collections/<namespace>/<name>
  parallel:
    matrix:
      - CORE: ["2.19", "2.20", "2.21"]
  script:
    - ansible-test sanity
    - ansible-test units

Images built on top of this one install their Python dependencies either with apk (Alpine's py3-* packages are visible to Ansible) or with pip, which installs into /opt/ansible.

⁠License

BSD 3-Clause License⁠.