I am trying to structure my re-usable ansible code in collections (roles, modules...) and I wanted to use the same strategy for playbooks.
Imagine a collection named acme.cloud.
In the root of the collection, I have the following files directory structure:
/docs
/meta
/playbooks
/playbooks/test.yml
/roles
galaxy.yml
README.md
Now when I run ansible-plybook acme.cloud.test -i /someinventory i get the warning:
[WARNING]: running playbook inside collection acme.cloud
The playbook runs fine but I am concerned about the warning, the reason about it, possible problems and side consequences. I could not find any documentation state that playbooks are not allowed in collections
Any idea or comment?
Thanks
This is indeed a simple warning which was added in 2020 when ansible learned to run playbooks from collections. I suppose this was a way to draw attention to developers/users that they were executing playbooks a bit differently than previously (e.g. no adjacent library folder for example).
Unfortunately at this stage, this warning cannot be silenced. But the good news is there's a commit in devel branch on November 8 2022 which moves that information display from a warning to a simple info you get when running ansible in verbose mode (-v). It makes a lot of sense since running from collections is now well spread with the latest versions.
This commit was pushed a day after ansible-core 2.14 version was fixed in the git repo and released. So I guess this feature will be available in ansible 2.14.1 (actually crafted in rc)