Role not found when using custom `ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH`

[dalepotter]

Issue Type

• Bug report

Molecule and Ansible details

$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.14.1]
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/dale/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/dale/Projects/molecule-issue/venv39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/dale/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /home/dale/Projects/molecule-issue/venv39/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.16 (main, Jan  3 2023, 22:13:52) [GCC 9.4.0] (/home/dale/Projects/molecule-issue/venv39/bin/python3.9)
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True

$ molecule --version
molecule 4.0.5.dev11 using python 3.9
    ansible:2.14.1
    delegated:4.0.5.dev11 from molecule
    docker:2.1.0 from molecule_docker requiring collections: community.docker>=3.0.2 ansible.posix>=1.4.0

Molecule installation method (one of):

• pip (using pip install git+https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule.git@main)

Ansible installation method (one of):

• pip

Detail any linters or test runners used:

• Running molecule commands locally from command line - see 'Actual Behaviour' section below.

Desired Behavior

Tasks from the included should be found and attempt to run.

Actual Behaviour

The included role reports as 'not found'.

# Create new directory and py39 virtualenv
$ mkdir molecule-role && cd molecule-role
$ python3.9 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
$ pip install git+https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule.git@mai
$ pip install molecule-docker

# Add custom Ansible path for roles downloaded from Ansible Galaxy
$ cat ansible.cfg
[defaults]
roles_path = ./galaxy_roles

# Download an Ansible Galaxy role

# Create role and default molecult config
$ molecule init role acme.my_new_role --driver-name docker
# Edit role `tasks.yml` to run `geerlingguy.security` role
$ cat my_new_role/tasks/main.yml
---
# tasks file for my_new_role
- name: Apply `geerlingguy.security` role
  ansible.builtin.include_role:
    name: geerlingguy.security
$ cd my_new_role/
$ molecule --debug test

Output:

[... Lines omitted]

TASK [Include acme.my_new_role] ************************************************

TASK [Apply `geerlingguy.security` role] ***************************************
ERROR! the role 'geerlingguy.security' was not found in /home/example-user/molecule-role/my_new_role/molecule/default/roles:/home/dale/.cache/ansible-compat/b4d3f4/roles:/home/dale/.cache/molecule/my_new_role/default/roles:/home/example-user/molecule-role:/home/dale/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/home/example-user/molecule-role/my_new_role/molecule/default

The error appears to be in '/home/example-user/molecule-role/my_new_role/tasks/main.yml': line 5, column 11, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  ansible.builtin.include_role:
    name: geerlingguy.security
          ^ here

Additional notes

This seems similar to https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule/issues/3404

[trallnag]

Have you ever figured out a solution to this? I am also failing to run Molecule against a role in the same directory without first installing the role

Tried this:

provisioner:
  name: ansible
  ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH: "../../"

But it does not help.

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Edit: My problem was unrelated. Molecule does not consider .yaml files. Changing meta/main.yaml to meta/main.yml resolved my issue.