Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Environment
- Console
Intended Audience
- Developers
- Information Technology
- System Administrators
Operating System
- MacOS
- POSIX
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: 3.13
Topic
- Software Development :: Bug Tracking
- Software Development :: Quality Assurance
- Software Development :: Testing
- System :: Systems Administration
- Utilities
About Ansible Molecule
Molecule is an Ansible testing framework designed for developing and testing Ansible collections, playbooks, and roles.
Molecule leverages standard Ansible features including inventory, playbooks, and collections to provide flexible testing workflows. Test scenarios can target any system or service reachable from Ansible, from containers and virtual machines to cloud infrastructure, hyperscaler services, APIs, databases, and network devices. Molecule can also validate inventory configurations and dynamic inventory sources.
Molecule encourages an approach that results in consistently developed Ansible content that is well-written, easily understood and maintained.
Molecule supports only the latest two major versions of Ansible (N/N-1).
Once installed, the command line can be called using any of the methods below:
molecule ...
python3 -m molecule ... # python module calling method
Documentation
Read the documentation and more at https://docs.ansible.com/projects/molecule//.
Get Involved
See the Talk to us section of the documentation to ask questions, find help, and join the conversation.
For complete details, see the Ansible communication guide.
If you want to get moving fast and make a quick patch:
git clone https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule && cd molecule
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -U setuptools pip tox
And you're ready to make your changes!
Authors
Molecule project was created by Retr0h and it is now community-maintained as part of the Ansible by Red Hat project.
License
The MIT License.
The logo is licensed under the Creative Commons NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
If you have some other use in mind, contact us.
