How do I skip some roles tasks when testing with Ansible Molecule?

Question

What is the easiest way to skip some role tasks when I perform functional testing using Ansible Molecule?

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '19 at 08:59

11

There are two tags you can use which are implicit when code is run by molecule notest and molecule-notest.

Example:

- name: my task
  tags: notest
  shell: sudo rm -rf /

answered Jul 26 '19 at 08:59

sorin

And if you want to run the task only when testing with molecule and skip it otherwise you can have a conditional like this: `when: '"molecule-notest" in ansible_skip_tags'` – gardar Feb 24 '22 at 11:26

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 03 '20 at 12:22

You can use the additional command line arguments to the ansible-playbook command to skip tags like this:

molecule converge -- --skip-tags="<your role>"

To use this option you have to tag your task first as https://stackoverflow.com/a/57216583/7066745 indicates

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