Debugging GitLab builds

Debugging GitLab builds

Now that Travis has become unusable, I’m moving stuff to GitLab. Some builds are breaking, this is how to reproduce the errors.

Start the dind container

export role=ansible-role-dns
cd Documents/github/buluma
docker run --rm --name gitlabci --volume $(pwd)/${role}:/${role}:z --privileged --tty --interactive docker:stable-dind

Login to the dind container

docker exec --tty --interactive gitlabci /bin/sh

Install software

The dind image is Alpine based and misses required software to run molecule or tox.

apk add --no-cache python3 python3-dev py3-pip gcc git curl build-base autoconf automake py3-cryptography linux-headers musl-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev openssh

Tox

GitLab CI tries to run tox (if tox.ini is found). To emulate GitLab CI, run:

python3 -m pip install tox --ignore-installed

And simply run tox to see the results.

tox

Molecule

For more in-depth troubleshooting, try installing molecule:

python3 -m pip install ansible molecule[docker] docker ansible-lint

Now you can run molecule:

cd ${role}
molecule test --destroy=never
molecule login