Molecule Failures

[pyrodie18]

@BGmot do we have any ideas why the hell Molecule keeps failing. I feel like it has happened SIGNIFICANTLY more since @eb4x brought in #1303 but I see no reason why it would be happening. Either of you guys have ideas?

[pyrodie18]

Ok, looking closer it looks like it is AWAYS only the agent role and ALWAYS only Debian/Ubuntu that is failing.

[BGmot]

Yes, but re-running the same tests help.

[BGmot]

Moreover, when I execute these tests on my local machine they never fail.

[eb4x]

I noticed the same errors in github_workflows of zabbix_agent on debian/ubuntu systems like a week or two before merge aswell. They all seem to fail during the exact same step, during copying of the ansiballz onto the host/container in some prepare.yml step, straight after the container has been created.

Some other things to consider are if the github ubuntu-20.04 runner image has changed recently or the geerlingguy images.

[pyrodie18]

Haven't looked at either of those images but not a bad idea.

[BGmot]

geerlingguy's geerlingguy/docker-debian11-ansible last change was on Dec 25, 2022 and it is failing for us.
ubuntu-20.04 runner is used for all other OS's tests and they don't fail.

[BGmot]

I don't know what is wrong with Ubuntu and Debian images but I assumed that containers are not "quite ready" for "prepare" operations after their creation so adding little delay after a container is created and before molecule starts pushing its files into the container seems to fix the issue (I ran number of tests in GitHub and all of them succeeded). Let's see whether it really fixes the issue.