Molecule Workshop

Requirements

Python >= 3.9 ansible-core >= 2.12

Install OS dependencies before installing molecule.

sudo dnf install -y gcc python3-pip python3-devel openssl-devel python3-libselinux

Installing Molecule

Install molecule in a Python virtual environment. First create the virtual environment, activate into the environment. Next upgrade to the latest setuptools and pip python modules. After the upgrade completes install molecule, ansible-core, and the other python modules listed in the requirements.txt file.

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade setuptools pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

From the above steps a Python virtual environment now exists with ansible-core, ansible-lint, and molecule with the podman and vagrant drivers.

Other drivers include molecule-azure, molecule-docker, molecule-vmware, and molecule-ec2 as examples.