ansible-test-gh-action for setting up CI in Ansible Collection repositories

A composite GitHub Action encapsulating the GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows setup necessary for testing Ansible collection repositories on GitHub.

Usage

To use the action add the following step to your workflow file (e.g. .github/workflows/ansible-test.yml)

- name: Perform integration testing with ansible-test
  uses: ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action@release/v1
  with:
    ansible-core-version: stable-2.14
    pre-test-cmd: echo This runs before the ansible-test invocation
    target-python-version: 3.11
    controller-python-version: auto
    testing-type: integration
    test-deps: ansible.netcommon
- name: Perform sanity testing with ansible-test
  uses: ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action@release/v1
  with:
    ansible-core-version: stable-2.14
    testing-type: sanity
- name: Perform unit testing with ansible-test
  uses: ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action@release/v1
  with:
    ansible-core-version: stable-2.14
    pre-test-cmd: echo This runs before the ansible-test invocation
    target-python-version: 3.11
    testing-type: units
    test-deps: >-
      ansible.netcommon
      ansible.utils

Pro tip: instead of using branch pointers, like main, pin versions of Actions that you use to tagged versions or SHA-1 commit identifiers. This will make your workflows more secure and better reproducible, saving you from sudden and unpleasant surprises.

Options

ansible-core-version

ansible-core Git revision. See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tags and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/branches/all?query=stable- for ideas. The repository this refers to can be changed with the ansible-core-github-repository-slug option. (DEFAULT: stable-2.14)

ansible-core-github-repository-slug

The GitHub repository slug from which to check out ansible-core (DEFAULT: ansible/ansible)

controller-python-version

Controller Python version. This is only used for integration tests and ansible-core 2.12 or later when target-python-version is also specified (DEFAULT: auto)

collection-root

Path to collection root relative to repository root (DEFAULT: .)

collection-src-directory

A pre-checked out collection directory that's already on disk (OPTIONAL, substitutes getting the source from the remote Git repository if set, also this action will not attempt to mutate its contents)

coverage

Whether to collect and upload coverage information. Can be set to always, never, and auto. The value auto will upload coverage information except when pull-request-change-detection is set to true and the action is called from a Pull Request. (DEFAULT: auto)

Note

Coverage is only generated for modules and plugins. If your collection does not contain any modules or plugins, set this to never to avoid errors in the codecov upload step due to no coverage information being available.

docker-image

A container image spawned by ansible-test (OPTIONAL)

git-checkout-ref

Committish to check out, unused if collection-src-directory is set (OPTIONAL)

integration-continue-on-error

Whether the continue with the other integration tests when an error occurs. If set to false, will stop on the first error. When set to false and coverage=auto, code coverage uploading will be disabled. (DEFAULT: true)

integration-diff

Whether to show diff output when calling actions in integration tests. Actions can override this by specifying diff: false or diff: true. (DEFAULT: true)

integration-retry-on-error

Whether to retry the current integration test once when an error happens. (DEFAULT: true)

origin-python-version

Environment Python version. The value auto uses the maximum Python version supported by the given ansible-core-version (DEFAULT: auto)

pre-test-cmd

Extra command to invoke before ansible-test (OPTIONAL)

pull-request-change-detection

Whether to use change detection for pull requests. If set to true, will use change detection to determine changed files against the target branch, and will not upload code coverage results. If the invocation is not from a pull request, this option is ignored. Note that this requires collection-src-directory to be empty, or it has to be a git repository checkout where collection-src-directory/collection-root ends with ansible_collections/{namespace}/{name}, or it has to be a git repository checkout where collection-root is .. (DEFAULT: false)

python-version

(DEPRECATED) Use origin-python-version instead.

target

ansible-test TARGET (OPTIONAL)

target-python-version

Target Python version (OPTIONAL)

testing-type

ansible-test subcommand (REQUIRED, Must be one of 'sanity', 'units' or 'integration')

test-deps

Test dependencies to install along with this collection (OPTIONAL)

Outputs

ansible-playbook-executable

Path to the auto-installed ansible-playbook executable

ansible-test-executable

Path to the auto-installed ansible-test executable

checkout-directory

Path to the auto-downloaded collection src directory

collection-fqcn

Detected collection FQCN

collection-name

Detected collection name

collection-namespace

Detected collection namespace

origin-python-path

The python-path output value of the setup-python action

origin-python-version

The actual value of origin-python-version passed to the setup-python action

sanity-tests

Comma-separated list of sanity tests to run. If not present, all applicable tests are run.

sanity-skip-tests

Comma-separated list of sanity tests to skip.

sanity-allow-disabled

Allow running sanity tests that are disabled by default. (DEFAULT: false)

Related community projects

Check out the Data-Bene/ansible-test-versions-gh-action to explore a semi-automatic job matrix generation for testing your collections. This project is not maintained by us but it is a rather promising way of configuring your GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows.