The Travis Linux distribution must be upgraded because the Trusty
(Ubuntu 14.04) image does not have Python 3.9. Xenial (Ubuntu 16.04) is
the earliest version that offers Python 3.9.
I have not chosen a later release, in order to aid restoration of Python
2.4 - 2.6 tests.
I hope this will prevent AWS Elastic Container Registry returning 429:
Too Many Requests error, due to the burst of activity from multiple VMs,
when a CI build begins.
The ansible_mitogen test suite takes over an hour when Ansible is not
accelerated by Mitogen. This change aims to reduce that by skipping
tests with a large number of iterations when the linear strategy is
chosen.
The tagged tests are intended to uncover Mitogen resource leaks. Since
Mitogen is not invoked when strategy=linear, the slight reduction in
test coverage is an acceptable trade off.
These are not part of the official testing regime (tests run for pull
requests). I find them convenient for local development.
Limitations
- Python 2.7+ only. No Python 2.4, 2.5, or 2.6.
- Requires Pythons pre-installed (e.g. DeadSnakes, pyenv)
- No coverage of alternate controller OS (e.g. MacOS)
The environments tested by default are
py27-mode_ansible-ansible2.10
py36-mode_ansible-ansible2.10
py39-mode_ansible-ansible2.10
py27-mode_mitogen
py36-mode_mitogen
py39-mode_mitogen
py27-mode_mitogen-distro_centos7
py36-mode_mitogen-distro_centos7
py39-mode_mitogen-distro_centos7
The environment variable DISTRO is used to set the target Docker image
used when running the Mitogen unit tests. DISTROS is used for the
Ansible integration tests. VER sets the version of Ansible that is
installed on the controller.
When MODE=Mitogen
- there is no need to set VER, because nothing that installs Ansible
- it does not make sense to set DISTROS.
Alex Willmer