Contributing to the google.cloud collection

Workflow summary

Clone the repository.
Make the desired code change.
Add a changelog fragment to describe your change.
Run integration tests locally and ensure they pass.
Create a PR.

Cloning

The ansible-test command expects that the repository is in a directory that matches it's collection, under a directory ansible_collections. Clone ensuring that hierarchy:

mkdir -p $TARGET_DIR/ansible_collections/google
git clone <url> $TARGET_DIR/ansible_collections/google/cloud

Then set up your Python virtual environment:

cd $TARGET_DIR/ansible_collections/google/cloud
python3 -m venv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 install -r requirements-test.txt
pip3 install ansible

Running tests

Prequisites for all tests

Install gcloud following these instructions.
Install the ansible package.
Some container runtime is necessary (e.g. podman or docker). The instructions use podman.

Running integration tests

Integration testing prequisites

Authentication with personal GCP credentials

If you are running the integration tests locally the easiest way to authenticate to GCP is using application default credentials. Once you have installed gcloud and performed basic initialization (via gcloud init) run:

gcloud auth application-default login

Authentication with service account credentials

A service account may also be used to run the integration tests. You can create one using gcloud:

gcloud iam service-accounts create ansible-test-account \
    --description="For running Anisble integration tests" \
    --display-name="Ansible Test Account"

You'll also need to export a key file. Here and below $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME is the full email address of the service account, in the form EMAIL@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com, e.g., if you used the account name ansible-test-account as suggested above and your project ID is my-test-project, use ansible-test-account@my-test-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com.

gcloud iam service-accounts keys create /path/to/cred/file.json \
    --iam-account=ansible-test-account@my-test-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com
chmod 0600 /path/to/cred/file.json

Read the best practices for managing service account keys to learn how to keep your service account key and your GCP resources safe.

Configuring test credentials

The integration tests for this module require the use of real GCP credentials, and must provide ansible-test those values. They can be added by creating the file tests/integration/cloud-config-gcp.ini.

If you are using personal (i.e., application default) credentials, add:

[default]
gcp_project: $PROJECT_ID
gcp_cred_kind: application
gcp_folder_id: $TEST_FOLDER (to create test projects)

If you are using a service account for credentials, add:

[default]
gcp_project: $PROJECT_ID
gcp_cred_file: /path/to/cred/file.json
gcp_cred_kind: serviceaccount
gcp_folder_id: $TEST_FOLDER (to create test projects)

Setting up the project for testing

Some of the setup of the project itself is done outside of the test, and is expected to be configured beforehand.

For convenience, a bootstrap script is provided.

NOTE: running this script will make irreversible changes in your GCP project (e.g. create an AppEngine project). You can omit $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME is you are using application default credentials.

bash ./scripts/bootstrap-project.sh $PROJECT_ID $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME

Running

Run ansible-test integration. Currently some tests are disabled as test are being verified and added.

Role tests

Prequisites for role tests

If you would like to use podman, you must install the molecule-plugins[podman] package in PyPI:

pip install --upgrade molecule-plugins[podman]

Running role tests

Ansible roles are tested via molecule.

module debug --test -s ${ROLE}

Role is the name of the role (e.g. gcloud, gcsfuse).

Add -d podman if you would like to use the podman driver.

If the linting fails, that is generally due to ansible-lint, which can be run directly:

ansible-lint

Specific Tasks

The following enumerates detailed documentation for specific tasks related to the codebase.

Updating the supported ansible-core version

modify the ansible-integration-tests.yaml to the version of ansible-core that you would like to test against.
(optional) update the version of ansible-core version required in meta/runtime.yaml.

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