2026-02-02, 16:50–17:40, B.1.017
Antsibull-nox is a extension for nox that makes it easy to run various tests and other testing tools for Ansible collections. In this talk, I want to present some background on why I created antsibull-nox, why I chose nox (instead of, say, tox), and demonstrate on how you can use antsibull-nox to test your Ansible collections.
This talk is aimed at collection maintainers, but also at contributors who want to know more about collection testing. You will get a (historic) overview of existing collection testing tools, starting with ansible-test, learn of the challenges these tools pose to collection testing and collection CI, and how this led to the development of antsibull-nox - and, most importantly, how antsibull-nox tries to address these challenges.
Talk slides: https://github.com/felixfontein/cfgmgmtcamp-2026-talk
Demo repository: https://github.com/felixfontein/cfgmgmtcamp-2026-demo
Long-time Ansible user and contributor