Molecule: Download dependencies

[dj-wasabi]

Hi,

One of my ansible roles has some dependencies on other roles. So I have to execute ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml before running the molecule test the ansible-galaxy command to download the dependencies.

Is it possible to let molecule handle this dependencies downloading?

So if for example we have this in the molecule.yml file:

ansible:
  playbook: playbook.yml
  timeout: 30
  requirement: requirements.yml

Within the converge step it can download the dependencies. If it hasn't a value then this step is ignored.

My 2 cents.

[kireledan]

actually, molecule can already do this. Use the requirements_file option instead of requirements. We'll make this known in the documentation.

[dj-wasabi]

Thanks! (Didn't know)

[retr0h]

Re-opening until documentation is corrected.

[kostyrev]

@kireledan @dj-wasabi
Specifying requirements_file and running molecule test does not get along.
It tries to check the syntax on playbook with roles not yet installed.
see this travis log for example

[kireledan]

Ahh yes that would cause some issues. Perhaps moving the dependency to syntax check would be the solution then.

[retr0h]

Ahh yes that would cause some issues. Perhaps moving the dependency to syntax check would be the solution then.

What do you mean?

[retr0h]

Closing in favor of #332 which has more details.