AttributeError: 'Runtime' object has no attribute 'plugins'

[gpatsiaouras]

Summary

Hello, we've been using ansible-lint for quite some time now, but suddenly we started receiving an error that seems to be irrelevant to our code. We are using ansible-lint inside an alpine docker image and this is where the problem appears. In an ubuntu 22.04 installation it works as it should. So we suspect that, the problem is alpine os related. I already tried to install ansible-lint from sources inside alpine to get the latest version, but it proved to be impossible due to missing dependencies and various errors.

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

We use ansible-lint in Gitlab CI a docker image we are creating based on python:alpine3.18. In this image ansible-lint is installed using the command

apk add ansible-lint

Ansible lint version

ansible-lint --version


ansible-lint 6.17.0 using ansible-core:2.14.5 ruamel-yaml:0.17.31 ruamel-yaml-clib:0.2.7

• ansible installation method: alpine apk
• ansible-lint installation method: alpine apk

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Create a Dockerfile file and add the following

FROM python:alpine3.18

RUN apk add ansible-lint

Start a container:

docker build -t testing-ansible-lint:latest .
docker run --rm -it testing-ansible-lint:latest sh

Then in any directory execute:

ansible-lint

Desired Behavior

The error should not be thrown since it seems to not be relevant to our ansible code, but internal to ansible-lint itself.

Actual Behavior

Receiving the following error:

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: [defaults]callback_whitelist option, normalizing names 
to new standard, use callbacks_enabled instead. This feature will be removed 
from ansible-core in version 2.15. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by 
setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
WARNING  Retrying execution failure 5 of: ansible-galaxy collection list --format=json
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-lint", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(_run_cli_entrypoint())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 310, in _run_cli_entrypoint
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 247, in main
    rules = RulesCollection(options.rulesdirs, profile_name=options.profile)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/rules/__init__.py", line 398, in __init__
    for rule in load_plugins(rulesdirs_str):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/rules/__init__.py", line 346, in load_plugins
    import_module(f"{f.stem}")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/rules/schema.py", line 53, in <module>
    "become_method": get_app().runtime.plugins.become.keys(),  # pylint: disable=no-member
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'Runtime' object has no attribute 'plugins'

[ssbarnea]

I am almost sure this is caused by bad downstream packaging, mainly version of ansible-compat is not the correct one (4.1.2).