CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent

Building on the best practices and techniques for using Ansible development tools for authoring playbooks and collections, this session focuses on the critical next step: comprehensively testing and validating your Ansible content for production environments. While creating well-structured content is essential, maintaining quality at scale requires automated testing pipelines that can validate each change consistently and reliably.

In this follow-up session, we'll demonstrate testing best practices with Ansible Navigator and Molecule. We'll also explore how to use easily incorporate Ansible testing with Pytest and how the tox-ansible plugin can simply testing across multiple Python interpreters and Ansible versions. We'll also focus on how to transform manual testing procedures into automated workflows using a GitHub Action.

Attendees will leave this talk with the tools and knowledge to stop wondering if their Ansible content will work in production and start knowing that it will!