Hi Felix, Todd: Thank you for your answers. I managed to get my code to run. I had to do some restructuring! I put shared code in module_utils/ and then user_groups_sync.py in modules/
Moving on to more interesting problems! Emilio On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 4:57:38 PM UTC-4 Todd Lewis wrote: > 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, > -- > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f915213d-ff2a-4686-b96b-0232eb7aac76n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f915213d-ff2a-4686-b96b-0232eb7aac76n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > Todd > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/40839cba-79c5-4cdc-a87a-3ad0b2ac3778n%40googlegroups.com.
