I have been looking at different ways to test ansible playbooks and came across this blog post by Jeff Geerling.
Replicating his exact example works, however, when I replicate it but managing python (and ansible) via a pipenv install I get the following error
ERROR! the role 'ansible-test' was not found in /Users/philip/Desktop/ansible-test/tests/roles:/Users/philip/ansible-test:/Users/philip/Desktop/ansible-test/tests
The error appears to have been in '/Users/philip/Desktop/ansible-test/tests/test.yml': line 4, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
roles:
- ansible-test
^ here
The content of test.yml is
- hosts: localhost
remote_user: root
roles:
- ansible-test
which passes yamllint fine.
ansible.cfg contains
[defaults]
roles_path = ../../ansible-test
I'm guessing it's something to do with being in a Virtualenv, but can't explain it.
The roles path is the path for all roles.
Ansible searches for a directory with the name of the role in the roles_path. If the role is called ansible-test, it is an error to put the name of the role into the roles_path.
Set roles_path this way:
[defaults]
roles_path = ../..
And make sure, that you are in the right directory, when you call ansible-playbook.