Hey Emilio,
I hope I don't waste your time with bad advice. My experience with
collections has been "interesting" - not always in a productive way. So
here goes.
While it's certainly possible to package playbooks in collections, that
might be adding to the problem. It appears you're invoking your
playbook.yml while your current working directory is
./ansible_collections/company/iam/playbooks. But if you want to invoke a
playbook that's part of the collection, then you want to use its FQCN:
ansible-playbook company.iam.playbook.yml
But /that/ is only going to work if ansible can locate your
collection(s). If you say
ansible-galaxy collection list
and it doesn't list company.iam, then you need to fix up your
collections_path to include the directory containing your
ansible_collections directory.
While I was writing this, Felix F. chimed in with some /actual/
knowledge. If you do what he said in addition to my suggestions, you
should be well on your way to, er, more interesting problems!
Good luck,
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Todd
On 9/7/23 9:17 AM, Emilio Botero wrote:
Hi,
I am writing an ansible collection to configure some internal company
tools.
Inside this collection I want to have several roles. These roles are
very similar to each other, so I want to put some shared utility
functions and classes in some shared location. As far as I understand,
that's what the `plugins/module_utils` directory in a collection is for.
So here is my collection structure:
```
.
├── README.md
└── ansible_collections
└── company
└── iam
├── README.md
├── docs
├── galaxy.yml
├── company-iam-1.0.0.tar.gz
├── meta
│ └── runtime.yml
├── playbooks
│ └── playbook.yml
├── plugins
│ ├── README.md
│ └── module_utils
│ ├── api_wrapper.py
│ ├── synchronizer.py
│ └── utils.py
├── roles
│ └── user_groups
│ ├── README.md
│ ├── defaults
│ │ └── main.yml
│ ├── files
│ ├── handlers
│ │ └── main.yml
│ ├── library
│ │ └── user_groups_sync.py
│ ├── meta
│ │ └── main.yml
│ ├── tasks
│ │ └── main.yml
│ ├── templates
│ ├── tests
│ │ ├── inventory
│ │ └── test.yml
│ └── vars
│ └── main.yml
├── tests
│ ├── output
....
```
I want to call the playbook in playbooks/playbook.yml, that should run
the role user_groups and run the code inside the
library/user_groups_sync.py.
This is what the playbook looks like:
---
- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
collections:
- company.iam
vars:
user_groups_file: "../user_group_vars.yml"
roles:
- role: company.iam.user_groups # Use FQCN here
here is what I am doing (inside the playbooks directory)
playbooks git:(ansible_collection) ✗ ansible-playbook playbook.yml
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available.
Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'
ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'user_groups_sync'. This often
indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.
I am really new to ansible collections and I'm afraid I haven't gotten
very far by reading the documentation. Could I please get some help
here? I'd really appreciate it.
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