Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish

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8. Testing Ansible with Molecule

Vincent Sesto¹  

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Auckland, New Zealand

 

In the previous chapter, we started looking at ways to test and troubleshoot your Ansible code using different options provided by Ansible like –-step, ansible-lint, and --syntax-check. In this chapter, we are going to take this testing further by installing and using the Molecule application, which will allow us to use it as a testing framework over our Ansible roles and playbooks.

We have dedicated the entire chapter to using Molecule as there is a lot of work we will need to cover. In this chapter

• We will introduce ...