An example Ansible Collection using ansible-specdoc to generate module specification and documentation.

This project exposes a file module that allows users to create and manage simple files through Ansible.

NOTE: The file module was created exclusively as an example and should not be used in production playbooks.

This section will guide you through the basic setup process for this repository.

When developing Ansible Collections, users are required to follow a specific directory structure. Due to how this project renders documentation, it will need to be stored outside of the ~/.ansible directory.

This can be achieved by running the following command in your desired project directory:

mkdir -p ansible_collections/linode

From here, you can clone this repository:

git clone git@github.com:linode/ansible-specdoc-example.git ansible_collections/linode/specdoc_example

Now you can enter the project directory:

cd ansible_collections/linode/specdoc_example

To keep your project dependencies separate from your system dependencies, it is recommended that you set up a Python virtual environment.

To create the environment in the venv directory, run:

python3 -m venv venv

You can then enter this environment by running:

source venv/bin/activate

To install the dependencies for this project, run the following:

pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-dev.txt

From here you can run the following Makefile target to install the collection:

make install

This collection should now be available to use through playbooks.

Please refer to the Makefile Targets section for information about running integration and sanity tests, building the project, and previewing documentation.

This project includes a few Makefile targets to allow for easier project testing and vetting.

Running the entire integration test suite:

make testint

Running a single integration test:

make TEST_ARGS="-v file_basic" testint

Run sanity tests for the entire project:

make sanity

Preview documentation for an individual module:

make DOC_MODULE_NAME=linode.specdoc_example.file doc-preview

• plugins: Contains collection modules and helpers
  • modules: Contains all the module implementations for this colleciton
    • file.py: Logic and spec for the file module
  • module_utils: Contains shared helpers for use in modules
    • documentation: Contains documentation strings for use in modules
      • file.py: Documentation fragments for the file module
    • base_module.py: Base module class to be consumed by modules
    • helpers.py: Various shared helper functions
• scripts: Contains various helper scripts
  • generate_sanity_ignores.py: Generates a sanity test ignore file to disable sanity tests that are incompatible with ansible-specdoc.
  • inject_docs.sh: Injects generated documentation strings into each Ansible module
• tests: Contains testing configuration and playbook
  • integration/targets/file_basic/tasks/main.yaml: The file_basic integration test case
  • sanity: Contains sanity test ignore files
  • config.yml: Used to set the minimum supported Python version for testing

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