Issue testing roles that depend on collections.

[snooyen]

We have a repository containing various roles we use to manage our K8s clusters. These roles depend on the community.kubernetes collection. I'm having issues using molecule to test these roles.

molecule 3.0.6
ansible 2.9.10

Project structure:

.
├── ansible_collections
│   └── community
│       └── kubernetes
├── my_playbook.yml
└── roles
    ├── role1
    │   ├── defaults
    │   ├── files
    │   ├── tasks
    │   ├── templates
    │   └── vars
    │       └── main.yml
    └── role2
        ├── README.md
        ├── defaults
        ├── files
        ├── handlers
        ├── meta
        ├── molecule
        │   └── default
        │       ├── INSTALL.rst
        │       ├── converge.yml
        │       ├── create.yml
        │       ├── destroy.yml
        │       └── molecule.yml
        ├── tasks
        ├── templates
        ├── tests
        └── vars

Where roles/role2/molecule/default/converge.yml looks like

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: true

  collections:
  - community.kubernetes

  tasks:
    - name: "Include role2"
      include_role:
        name: "role2"

Running the following

cd roles/role2
molecule converge

fails with:

TASK [role2 : include_tasks] *********************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"reason": "couldn't resolve module/action 'community.kubernetes.k8s'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.

[snooyen]

@geerlingguy

[snooyen]

Found it. Had to modify molecule.yml to set the ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH environment variable on my provisioner.

provisioner:
  name: ansible
  log: true
  lint: {}
  inventory:
    host_vars:
      localhost:
        ansible_python_interpreter: '{{ ansible_playbook_python }}'
  env:
    ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR: 'true'
    ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS: '../../../../'
  playbooks:
    create: create.yml
    converge: converge.yml
    destroy: destroy.yml