Note that tests/ansible/integration/ssh/templated_by_play_taskvar.yml was
previously erroniously being skipped with ansible-core 2.19.0a<N> and
2.19.0b<N>.
fixes#1293
refs #1175
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
```
Ansible >= 4 (ansible-core >= 2.11) the SSH plugin has a `timeout` option and
with variable `ansible_ssh_timeout`, but not a `ansible_timeout` variable.
The local plugin has no such option or variable(s). However `ansible_timeout`
is backfilled for all conection plugins, by legacy mechanisms that populate
the play context attribute:
- `ansible.constants.COMMON_CONNECTION_VARS`
- `ansible.constants.MAGIC_VARIABLE_MAPPING`
The `timeout` keyword is for task completion timeout, not connection timeout.
This tightens up our monkey patching `Connection._action` so it's only applied
during `meta: reset_connection` & promptly removed. This fixes "'int' object
has no attribute 'template'" when `ansible.plugins.action.wait_for_connection`
or other code calls `ansible.plugins.connection.ConnectionBase.reset()`.
This could also have switched to `templar=templar` on the temporary action,
rather than `templar=0`, but it's not strictly necessary to fix this bug. I
anticipate other changes doing so soon, to improve interpreter discovery &
templated python interpreter path support.
By switching to block style (`|`) with clip (no `-` or `+`) the failure
messages don't require quoting and gain a single trailing newline. This causes
Ansible to print them as block style, when using the yaml stdout callback
plugin. As a result the values have one less layer of quoting and quote
escaping, making them much easier to read.
Relying on the virtualenv default or hardcoding "python" results in a Python
2.x virtualenv on some targets (e.g. debian10-test). This caused a failure
when testing with Ansible >= 10 (ansible-core >= 2.17), which have dropped
Python 2.x support.
refs #1074
macOS 11 is not longer an available runner on Azure Devops. The minimum is now
macOS 12. This runner does not have Python 2.7 installed, so running them
would require a custom install - which I'm declaring too much effort for too
little gain.
refs #1090
CentOS 8 has reached EOL. Packages are no longer mirrored or maintained. A
historic snapshot of the packages is kept on vault.centos.org.
refs #1088, #1090
This reapplies an earlier change, when this plugin was first introduced to
Mitogen. The plugin was updated to fix
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: The '_remote_checksum()' method is deprecated.
I've elected to short-circuit the if statemtn logic, rather than
deleting/unindenting, to make the code delta much smaller. This should make it
easier to maintain/update.
Fixes#915
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
Alex Willmer