PyCharm & Modules

[Tennis Smith]

Hi,

Has anyone found a good way to debug ansible modules via the PyCharm debugger?  

-T

[Jon Forrest]

I did a little looking into this. The first problem is making Ansible
not delete the modules on the remote host. The documentation page

http://docs.ansible.com/developing_modules.html#check-mode

mentions how to do this, although it would be nice if there were
a module-specific directive that turned this on for just the
one module, something like

tasks:
   - name: ensure apache is at the latest version
     yum: pkg=httpd state=latest module-save=True

That said, my understanding is that the remote modules don't
require anything other than standard python, which is why Ansible
isn't required on the remote node. So, you "should" be able to run
a remote module using your favorite debugging method. I haven't
tried this, and I'm not an Ansible expert, so I'd be interested
in finding out if this works.

Jon Forrest

 

[Tennis Smith]

Thanks, Jon.  I'll poke around.

-T

[Brian Coca]

also look at hacking/test-module, it allows a debugger to attach to test a module directly

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[Tennis Smith]

Good idea. Thanks.

-T

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[Michael DeHaan]

Possibly useful - http://michaeldehaan.net/post/35403909347/tips-on-using-debuggers-with-ansible

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[Mumshad Mannambeth]

Hi Smith,

Found any good way to accomplish this? Debugging Ansible modules via PyCharm debugger?

[Mumshad Mannambeth]

I figured out a way to debug using PyCharm remote debugger. I have written down the steps here if anyone else needs info:

https://github.com/mmumshad/debug-ansible-modules-pycharm

Thanks

Mumshad

[Deepak Kothandan]

Hi All,

Firstly, I would like to thank Mumshad Mannambeth, for sharing his github document which helped me in doing the setup.

I have written a couple of post on debugging Ansible using Pycharm.

1) Setting up pycharm and a ubuntu vagrant box, to debug Custom Ansible modules, so the ansible code stays on the host, and is easier to develop, The link to this post is Debugging Ansible with Pycharm

2) Using the same setup, also wrote a second post, which explains about debugging existing modules and callback plugins and the link is Debugging Ansible callbacks with pycharm 

Hope this helps. Thanks

[Jae Kim]

Is there a way to debug without having to purchase the professional version of Pycharm?