ansible-test - Add support for remote Ubuntu VMs.

changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-ubuntu-remote.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - ansible-test - Add support for Ubuntu VMs using the ``--remote`` option.

test/lib/ansible_test/_data/completion/remote.txt

@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ macos python_dir=/usr/local/bin provider=parallels
 rhel/7.9 python=2.7 provider=aws
 rhel/8.5 python=3.6,3.8,3.9 provider=aws
 rhel provider=aws
+ubuntu/22.04 python=3.10 provider=aws
+ubuntu provider=aws

test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/host_profiles.py

@@ -571,6 +571,8 @@ class PosixRemoteProfile(ControllerHostProfile[PosixRemoteConfig], RemoteProfile
             become = Sudo()
         elif self.config.platform == 'rhel':
             become = Sudo()
+        elif self.config.platform == 'ubuntu':
+            become = Sudo()
         else:
             raise NotImplementedError(f'Become support has not been implemented for platform "{self.config.platform}" and user "{settings.user}" is not root.')
 

test/lib/ansible_test/_util/target/setup/bootstrap.sh

@@ -266,6 +266,39 @@ bootstrap_remote_rhel_pinned_pip_packages()
     pip_install "${pip_packages}"
 }
 
+bootstrap_remote_ubuntu()
+{
+    py_pkg_prefix="python3"
+
+    packages="
+        gcc
+        ${py_pkg_prefix}-dev
+        ${py_pkg_prefix}-pip
+        ${py_pkg_prefix}-venv
+        "
+
+    if [ "${controller}" ]; then
+        # The resolvelib package is not listed here because the available version (0.8.1) is incompatible with ansible.
+        # Instead, ansible-test will install it using pip.
+        packages="
+            ${packages}
+            ${py_pkg_prefix}-cryptography
+            ${py_pkg_prefix}-jinja2
+            ${py_pkg_prefix}-packaging
+            ${py_pkg_prefix}-yaml
+            "
+    fi
+
+    while true; do
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+        apt-get update -qq -y && \
+        DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -qq -y --no-install-recommends ${packages} \
+        && break
+        echo "Failed to install packages. Sleeping before trying again..."
+        sleep 10
+    done
+}
+
 bootstrap_docker()
 {
     # Required for newer mysql-server packages to install/upgrade on Ubuntu 16.04.
@@ -284,6 +317,7 @@ bootstrap_remote()
             "freebsd") bootstrap_remote_freebsd ;;
             "macos") bootstrap_remote_macos ;;
             "rhel") bootstrap_remote_rhel ;;
+            "ubuntu") bootstrap_remote_ubuntu ;;
         esac
     done
 }