vmware

I help to run a demo/lab environment for Red Hat Pre-Sales in the UK. We heavily use Ansible to automate as much as possible in the lab and we offer push-button Automation to end users via Ansible Tower. I’ve been using Molecule more and more to improve our ability to test and promote changes to Ansible code. I wanted to write up a few different scenarios I have come across for using Molecule. [Read More]

Molecule is a tool to aid with the testing and development of Ansible roles. It allows users to spin up test infrastructure to provide a quick and easy means with which to test Ansible roles. Typically the test instances are containers as they are lightweight and typically very fast to create and destroy. There are a number of posts out there that describe the process of using molecule with containers but I didn’t find many that describe the process for testing molecule with Virtual Machines. [Read More]

I’ve written about dynamic inventories before and why they are useful both around constructed inventory plugins and on ansible.com/blog around the servicenow plugin - so I won’t repeat it all again here. Dynamic inventories are great for allowing Ansible to use other platforms to provide a list of endpoints to manage and also to help to classify those endpoints. If we take the VMware inventory plugin as an example, I might not want to import every VMware VM into Ansible as a managed endpoint. [Read More]