[rdo-dev] Building and shipping RPMs from Ansible collections

[Sorin Sbarnea]

I would go for the least problematic approach: starting to build collections ASAP.

Collections can be used starting with Ansible 2.9.


My gut feeling is that RPM approach would cause more problems than fixing. 

Remember that we test our code on lots of platforms, with virtualenvs (usually tox) and which in most cases are isolated.

This means that even if we have the RPM-with-module today, we may not be able to use it.

Even worse: upstream testing is done using Ubuntu, does this mean that we start building debs too?

Ansible 2.9 introduced a way to install modules, via collections, which is not platform dependent.

I would personally try to avoid reinventing the wheel and use official way.


Cheers
Sorin

> On 19 Feb 2020, at 10:12, Sagi Shnaidman <sshnaidm at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, all
> 
> with ongoing process of removing code from Ansible core into collections [1] I'd like to raise a question - how can we build and provide RPMs from Ansible collection?
> We currently use more and more Ansible community modules in TripleO:
> - Openstack modules has already moved to be in Openstack repo and won't be present in Ansible 2.10.
> - Podman modules will move to a different collection and won't be present in Ansible 2.10
> Both of them are used now and won't be provided by Ansible anymore.
> I think it's worth to set up this the sooner the better to prevent unnecessary delays in the future.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> [1] https://www.ansible.com/blog/thoughts-on-restructuring-the-ansible-project
> -- 
> Best regards
> Sagi Shnaidman
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