centos8-test:2025.02 no longer has a /usr/bin/python installed, so use
centos8-py3 target which sets `ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3` in
the templated inventory.
Ansible <= 9 (ansible-core <= 2.6) now discover the interpreter as
/usr/bin/python3 on debian11-test:2025.02, as opposed to
/usr/bin/python3.9 on debian11-test:2021. I'm don't know the exact
cause. From manual tests the change in observed behaviour appears to be common to
vanilla Ansible (strategy=linear) and Mitogen flavour
(strategy=mitogen_linear).
```console
(ans9) ➜ mitogen git:(4efb7158) ✗ ANSIBLE_STRATEGY=mitogen_linear ANSIBLE_STRATEGY_PLUGINS=ansible_mitogen/plugins/strategy ans9/bin/ansible -e ansible_python_interpreter=auto -mping d11.lan
d11.lan | SUCCESS => {
"ansible_facts": {
"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3"
},
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
(ans9) ➜ mitogen git:(4efb7158) ✗ ans9/bin/ansible -e ansible_python_interpreter=auto -mping d11.lan
d11.lan | SUCCESS => {
"ansible_facts": {
"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3"
},
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
```
Update some tests which assume `/usr/bin/python` exists or that `env python`
will resolve successfully.
Python 2.7 (distro package) and 3.6 (pyenv managed) jobs run on Ubuntu 22.04.
More recent Pythons (distro or Github provided) run on 24.04.
fixes#1256
Ansible tasks that run locally (e.g. `connection: local`, `delegate_to:
localhost`) must now specify their `ansible_python_interpreter`, typically as
`{{ ansible_playbook_python }}`; otherwise the system Python on the controller
(e.g. `/usr/bin/python`) is likely to be used and this is often outside the
version range supported by the Ansible verison under test. If this occurs then
the symptom is often a failure to import a builtin from
`ansible.module_utils.six.moves`, e.g.
```
fatal: [target-centos6-1]: FAILED! => changed=true
cmd:
- ansible
- -m
- shell
- -c
- local
- -a
- whoami
- -i
- /tmp/mitogen_ci_ansibled3llejls/hosts
- test-targets
delta: '0:00:02.076385'
end: '2025-04-17 17:27:02.561500'
msg: non-zero return code
rc: 8
start: '2025-04-17 17:27:00.485115'
stderr: |-
stderr_lines: <omitted>
stdout: |-
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback,
use -vvv. The error was: from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import
map, reduce, shlex_quote
```
Previously (and implicitly) used "latest". The tag 2021 is new today, the
image contents have not changed since they were generated in 2021.
They have moved container registry twice since 2021
- #791 Docker -> Amazon Elastic Container Registry (public.ecr.aws/n5z0e8q)
- #1128 Amazon ECR -> GitHub Container Registry (ghcr.io/mitogen-hq)
This commit also removes the last references to ECR.
Each grouping gets an independant dir, e.g.
- ansible -> /tmp/mitogen_ci_ansible
- debops -> /tmp/mitogen_ci_debops
Importing ci_lib no longer creates a temporary directory as a side effect.
This reduces the number of jobs from 48 to 24. The Mitogen part of the test
suite has been parameterized on the Linux container targets to be run against.
Both the Ansible tests & Mitogen tests now use the same source of truth to
control which targets to use: environment variable MITOGEN_TEST_DISTRO_SPECS.
This replaces the two mutually exclusive env vars DISTRO and DISTROS. I've
also removed vestgial traces of an unused env var MITOGEN_TEST_DISTRO.
Parameterization adapted from
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2014/04/02/dynamically-generating-python-test-cases
refs #1058, #1059
Preperation for migrating from Azure DevOps with Amazon Elastic Container
Registry (AWS ECR), to GitHub Actions with GitHub Container Registry (GHCR).
DebOps tests are not currently being run, the updates to .ci/debops*.py are
best effort only.
Also
- Simplifies adding support for additional Ansible versions
- Unifies Python package versioning in CI and local test environments
- Matches Python versions tested, with those declared in setup.py
- Expands targets covered by automated Ansible tests to
- centos6, centos8
- debian9, debian11
- ubuntu1604, ubuntu2004
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