#molecule : a group of atoms bonded together

- French: molécule

- German: das Molekül

- Italian: molecola

- Portuguese: molécula

- Spanish: molécula

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How is this whole #ansible #molecule tool so bad.

It has mountains of documentation examples that literally do not work at all.

Mentions a whole slew of configuration parameters that seem entirely ignored.

And worst of all, it forces a very particular directory structure that makes sharing these huge piles of boilerplate across roles and playbooks, impossible...

But sadly it's the only tool in human existence to seamlessly allow dind testing with systemd based containers.

#dind #systemd

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3321

#HackerNews #molecule #science #topology #Möbius #chemistry

I just added #Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to our Integration Test Target (ITT) lineup:
👉 https://github.com/orgs/foundata/repositories?q=oci-*-itt

🔍 Looking for #Linux #Containers for your CI/CD pipeline? We’ve built a collection of OCI images:

✅ fully functional systemd (not just a shim!)
✅ unprivileged execution support, perfect for tools like #Podman.
✅ ideal for #Ansible #Molecule testing, see them in action with a collection: https://github.com/foundata/ansible-collection-sshd/tree/main/extensions/molecule

#Automation #DevOps #OpenSource #InfrastructureAsCode #foundata

@ubuntu

I just added #Fedora 44 to our Integration Test Target (ITT) lineup:
👉 https://github.com/orgs/foundata/repositories?q=oci-*-itt

🔍 Looking for #Linux #Containers for your CI/CD pipeline? We’ve built a collection of OCI images:

✅ fully functional systemd (not just a shim!)
✅ unprivileged execution support, perfect for tools like #Podman.
✅ ideal for #Ansible #Molecule testing, see them in action with a collection: https://github.com/foundata/ansible-collection-sshd/tree/main/extensions/molecule

#Automation #DevOps #OpenSource #InfrastructureAsCode #foundata

@fedora
@ansible

Was messing around with the ansible libvirt collection to deploy some molecule instances. Turns out the virt_install module forgot to add the #cloud-config header to user-data when converting it from dictionary to string. Therefor my cloudinit user never got created. Currently preparing a pull request but I am stuck a bit on the test setup.

#ansible #molecule #python #libvirt #automation #cloudinit

Yesterday was a great day on the Chemnitzer Linuxtage. A lot to learn and socialize with fellow nerds. Currently playing around with Ansible Ara which is really easy to integrate into Ansible molecule like this:

```
# extensions/molecule/config.yml
---
ansible:
cfg:
callback_plugins:
- ansible.legacy.ara_default
```

#clt #clt2026 #ansible #ara #molecule