Ansible playbook not running in GitHub Actions

[Amedee Van Gasse]

I am writing an Ansible playbook to quickly install and configure a local laptop. I have tested it on my local machine with ansible-playbook local.yml --ask-become-pass and in a Vagrant box with vagrant provision, and that works perfectly. (please keep reading)

local.yml

---

- hosts: all

roles:

- common

- development

connection: local

become: yes

...

ansible.cfg

[defaults]

INVENTORY = inventory.yml

INTERPRETER_PYTHON = auto

LOCALHOST_WARNING = False

inventory.yml

---

all:

children:

ungrouped:

hosts:

default:

ansible_connection: local

...

Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

config.vm.box = "ubuntu/focal64"

config.vm.provision "ansible_local" do |ansible|

ansible.playbook = "local.yml"

end

end

Now I want to add a GitHub Action to use GitHub as a CI for my changes, by running my playbook on the latest Ubuntu version inside a container. See GitHub Marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/check-ansible-ubuntu-latest

.github/workflows/ansible-ubuntu-latest.yml

name: Ansible check ubuntu:latest

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:

build:

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:

- uses: actions/checkout@v2

- name: ansible check with ubuntu:latest

uses: roles-ansible/check-ansible-ubuntu-latest-action@master

with:

targets: "local.yml"

hosts: "localhost"

However, the playbook doesn't run in GitHub Actions.

This is the relevant part of the log where I think the issue occurs:

Warning: : Unable to parse /github/workspace/host.ini as an inventory source

Warning: : No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available

Warning: : provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that

the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

PLAY [all] *********************************************************************

skipping: no hosts matched

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

Please note that I have no host.ini, I have a inventory.yml instead.

This is the full log of that build step:

Run roles-ansible/check-ansible-ubuntu-latest-action@master

/usr/bin/docker run --name b361ed873671b7a624a4eaa4c28615bfd1d98_4e9c36 --label 7b361e --workdir /github/workspace --rm -e INPUT_TARGETS -e INPUT_HOSTS -e INPUT_GROUP -e INPUT_REQUIREMENTS -e TARGETS -e HOSTS -e GROUP -e REQUIREMENTS -e HOME -e GITHUB_JOB -e GITHUB_REF -e GITHUB_SHA -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER -e GITHUB_RUN_ID -e GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER -e GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS -e GITHUB_ACTOR -e GITHUB_WORKFLOW -e GITHUB_HEAD_REF -e GITHUB_BASE_REF -e GITHUB_EVENT_NAME -e GITHUB_SERVER_URL -e GITHUB_API_URL -e GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL -e GITHUB_WORKSPACE -e GITHUB_ACTION -e GITHUB_EVENT_PATH -e GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_ACTION_REF -e GITHUB_PATH -e GITHUB_ENV -e RUNNER_OS -e RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE -e RUNNER_TEMP -e RUNNER_WORKSPACE -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN -e ACTIONS_CACHE_URL -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/home/runner/work/ansible-workstation/ansible-workstation":"/github/workspace" 7b361e:d873671b7a624a4eaa4c28615bfd1d98

+ git submodule update --init --recursive

+ [[ '' == *.yml ]]

+ '[' '!' -z '' ']'

+ '[' /ansible-docker.sh = /ansible-docker.sh ']'

+ echo -E '\nRunning Ansible debian check...\n'

\nRunning Ansible debian check...\n

+ ansible::prepare

+ : local.yml

+ : /github/workspace

+ pushd /github/workspace

/github/workspace /github/workspace

+ tee ansible.cfg

+ echo -e '

[defaults]

inventory = host.ini

nocows = True

host_key_checking = False

forks = 20

fact_caching = jsonfile

fact_caching_connection = /github/home/facts

fact_caching_timeout = 7200

stdout_callback = yaml

ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3

ansible_connection=local

'

[defaults]

inventory = host.ini

nocows = True

host_key_checking = False

forks = 20

fact_caching = jsonfile

fact_caching_connection = /github/home/facts

fact_caching_timeout = 7200

stdout_callback = yaml

ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3

ansible_connection=local

+ echo -e '[local]\nlocalhost ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3 ansible_connection=local'

+ tee host.ini

[local]

localhost ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3 ansible_connection=local

+ [[ local.yml == *.yml ]]

+ echo -e '\nansible playbook detected\ninitialize playbook testing...\n'

ansible playbook detected

initialize playbook testing...

/github/workspace /github/workspace /github/workspace

+ ansible::test::playbook

+ : local.yml

+ : /github/workspace

+ : localhost

+ : ''

+ pushd /github/workspace

+ echo -e '[]\nlocalhost ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3 ansible_connection=local ansible_host=127.0.0.1'

+ tee host.ini

+ ansible-playbook --connection=local --inventory host.ini local.yml

[]

localhost ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3 ansible_connection=local ansible_host=127.0.0.1

Warning: : * Failed to parse /github/workspace/host.ini with ini plugin:

/github/workspace/host.ini:1: Invalid section entry: '[]'. Please make sure

that there are no spaces in the section entry, and that there are no other

invalid characters

Warning: : Unable to parse /github/workspace/host.ini as an inventory source

Warning: : No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available

Warning: : provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that

the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

PLAY [all] *********************************************************************

skipping: no hosts matched

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

What do I need to change to make sure that my playbook runs in GitHub actions?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

guess what... I didn't change a thing, and about an hour later it worked.
Wha...?

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