Re: [RFC PATCH v1] Add an Ansible requirements.yml file

[Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>]

On 25/08/2025 10.38, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 12:23:05PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
>>
>> Commit b90d89d27659 ("Switch to the cloud.terraform.terraform
>> module") introduced the use of the cloud.terraform module, and
>> commit 7ccb64834eeb ("guestfs: Replace scripts/destroy_guestfs.sh
>> with an Ansible playbook") introduced the use of the
>> community.libvirt module. It would be friendly if kdevops could
>> pull in the Ansible modules it needs transparently.
>>
>> The requirements.yml file is a manifest of Ansible collections that
>> the project needs to run. Installation of these collections is made
>> automatic by adding:
>>
>>   ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
>>
>> to the "make ansible_cfg" step. This mechanism can keep cached
>> versions of collections up to date, and can also constrain a
>> cached collection to a specific version, if that's needed.
>>
>> The initial file contains requirements I could find easily, and
>> should be updated over time as new collection dependencies are
>> introduced.
>>
>> See also:
>>
>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/collections_using.html
>>
>> Question: Can we assume that the Ansible controller has internet
>> access all the time?
> 
> That's not really an issue at all, but what I learned using galaxy stuff
> was if we required *our* own stuff upstream on galaxy it was not worth
> it.
> 
> Given you're only using external stuff, then that seems sensible to me.
> But now given our ongoing dialog over how to ease the pain to make it
> easy to use kdevops for new folks, how would this be handled? Are we
> OK with the request to phone home out?

I wonder if this is a non-Debian issue?

I see I have all these installed by the Debian ansible package:

Here the ansible package sources:
https://packages.debian.org/forky/all/ansible/filelist

ansible-galaxy collection list

# /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/_internal/ansible_collections
Collection                               Version
---------------------------------------- -------
ansible._protomatter                     2.19.0

# /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections
Collection                               Version
---------------------------------------- -------
amazon.aws                               10.1.0
ansible.netcommon                        8.0.1
ansible.posix                            2.1.0
ansible.utils                            6.0.0
ansible.windows                          3.2.0
arista.eos                               11.0.1
awx.awx                                  24.6.1
azure.azcollection                       3.7.0
check_point.mgmt                         6.4.1
chocolatey.chocolatey                    1.5.3
cisco.aci                                2.12.0
cisco.dnac                               6.37.0
cisco.intersight                         2.2.0
cisco.ios                                10.1.1
cisco.iosxr                              11.1.0
cisco.meraki                             2.21.4
cisco.mso                                2.11.0
cisco.nxos                               10.2.0
cisco.ucs                                1.16.0
cloud.common                             5.0.0
cloudscale_ch.cloud                      2.5.2
community.aws                            10.0.0
community.ciscosmb                       1.0.11
community.crypto                         3.0.3
community.digitalocean                   1.27.0
community.dns                            3.2.7
community.docker                         4.7.0
community.general                        11.1.2
community.grafana                        2.3.0
community.hashi_vault                    7.0.0
community.hrobot                         2.5.0
community.library_inventory_filtering_v1 1.1.1
community.libvirt                        2.0.0
community.mongodb                        1.7.10
community.mysql                          3.15.0
community.okd                            5.0.0
community.postgresql                     4.1.0
community.proxmox                        1.2.0
community.proxysql                       1.6.0
community.rabbitmq                       1.6.0
community.routeros                       3.8.1
community.sap_libs                       1.4.2
community.sops                           2.2.1
community.vmware                         5.7.1
community.windows                        3.0.1
community.zabbix                         4.1.0
containers.podman                        1.17.0
cyberark.conjur                          1.3.6
cyberark.pas                             1.0.35
dellemc.enterprise_sonic                 3.0.0
dellemc.openmanage                       9.12.3
dellemc.powerflex                        2.6.1
dellemc.unity                            2.0.0
f5networks.f5_modules                    1.37.1
fortinet.fortimanager                    2.10.0
fortinet.fortios                         2.4.0
google.cloud                             1.7.0
grafana.grafana                          6.0.3
hetzner.hcloud                           5.1.0
hitachivantara.vspone_block              4.0.1
ibm.qradar                               4.0.0
ibm.storage_virtualize                   2.7.4
ieisystem.inmanage                       3.0.0
infinidat.infinibox                      1.6.3
infoblox.nios_modules                    1.8.0
inspur.ispim                             2.2.3
junipernetworks.junos                    10.0.0
kaytus.ksmanage                          2.0.0
kubernetes.core                          6.0.0
kubevirt.core                            2.2.3
lowlydba.sqlserver                       2.6.1
microsoft.ad                             1.9.2
microsoft.iis                            1.0.3
netapp.cloudmanager                      21.24.0
netapp.ontap                             23.1.0
netapp.storagegrid                       21.15.0
netapp_eseries.santricity                1.4.1
netbox.netbox                            3.21.0
ngine_io.cloudstack                      2.5.0
openstack.cloud                          2.4.1
ovirt.ovirt                              3.2.1
purestorage.flasharray                   1.36.0
purestorage.flashblade                   1.20.0
splunk.es                                4.0.0
telekom_mms.icinga_director              2.4.0
theforeman.foreman                       5.4.0
vmware.vmware                            2.2.0
vmware.vmware_rest                       4.8.1
vultr.cloud                              1.13.0
vyos.vyos                                6.0.0
wti.remote                               1.0.10

dpkg -l ansible
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version          Architecture Description
+++-==============-================-============-===============================================================
ii  ansible        12.0.0~b3+dfsg-1 all          Configuration management, deployment, and task execution system

dpkg -S /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/community
ansible: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/community