使用 Homebrew, Nix, pacman, zypper 安装 molecule

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• molecule

项目历史

The major adoption turning point came in 2018, when Ansible announced that it would adopt molecule and ansible-lint as official Red Hat Ansible projects. The announcement said the tools were community-built and important to Ansible automation development, thanked Cisco and John Dewey for work on Molecule, and described migration of the repositories to the ansible GitHub organization while keeping the PyPI package name molecule. That move gave Molecule a formal place in the Ansible toolchain rather than leaving it as a separate community utility.

采用历史

In practice, Molecule gives role and collection authors a repeatable local and CI workflow: initialize a scenario, create or converge test instances, run Ansible content, then verify behavior through Ansible-native checks or external verifiers. The docs show CI use with GitHub Actions, Travis CI, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, and molecule test. Community adoption is visible in Ansible role maintainers replacing homegrown Docker-based test rigs with Molecule-based tests after the Red Hat adoption announcement.

使用方式

The project broadened from role-only testing toward playbooks and collections. Red Hat's 2023 Molecule 6 developer-preview article framed Molecule as part of the Ansible Automation Platform developer experience and emphasized functional testing for Ansible content, including collection-level testing and making the Testinfra verifier optional in favor of Ansible-native validation.

来源

• https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/09/13/introducing-ansible-molecule-ansible-automation-platform
• https://docs.ansible.com/projects/molecule/
• https://docs.ansible.com/projects/molecule/ci/
• https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-to-adopt-molecule-and-ansible-lint-projects/28657
• https://github.com/ansible/molecule/
• https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/testing-your-ansible-roles-molecule/