CI molecule testing stopped working with ansilble-lint 5.0.1 change

[JohnMalmberg]

We want to have all of our locally written ansible-roles run through CI checking.

Each role is in its own repository.

Having the just the role name in this environment does not work in the CI environment as everything used or change must in the CI test must reside in the workspace directory.

In our specific CI environment, the role is checked out into a subdirectory of the workspace directory.

We have been using a converge.yml in the molecule directory tree (and only in the molecule directory tree) to have molecule find the role that was found in a Stack Overflow article.

`cat molecule/default/converge.yml

• name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  Allow changes in the base directory name for the role #1567

  roles:

  • role: "{{ lookup('env', 'MOLECULE_PROJECT_DIRECTORY') | basename }}"

Issue the command

molecule test`

This worked fine until we tried to update ansible-lint to 5.0.1 from 4.3.7.

I have been informed that this hack popularized on Stack Overflow is not the best way to test, so I am looking for information on how molecule can be setup so that it can find the role that is in the parent directory of molecule directory.

The previous code could be just be the same as a default file created during a local role generation script.

[sio]

I've encountered the same issue but I've eventually given up and just added --exclude molecule to ansible-lint command line.

[JohnMalmberg]

We do not want to exclude molecule from the linting process.
As I have been told that this hack was dependent on undocumented molecule internals, it may stop working in the future.

So I am looking for a supported solution.

[sio]

Which hack? --exclude is a documented cli argument of ansible-lint, that's as official as it gets

[JohnMalmberg]

I am not referring to --exclude as a hack, I am referring to the role lookup statement that the lint is flagging.

Lint is flagging it because it should not be used, so what I am looking for is a supported replacement method.