Some useful tools for folks that triage/fix/debug/deal with github.com/ansible/ansible

• ansible-workon - make a working directory and helpers for fixing an ansible issue
• ansible-list-versions - emits a list of all the released versions of ansible
• ansible-test-versions - runs a script with all versions or a subset of ansible
• list-ansible-installs - inventories all the places ansible could have been installed
• docker_killall - stop all containers
• docker_rmall - clean up all dead container images

for end users ...

pip install ansible-dev-tools

for devs ...

virtualenv /tmp/atools.venv
source /tmp/atools.venv/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/jctanner/ansible-tools
cd ansible-tools
python setup.py develop

The most common thing you'll probably use from this set of tools is ansible-test-verisons ...

1. Install the package
2. ansible-workon --repo=ansible --number=60000
3. cd ~/workspace/issues/ansible-60000
4. ansible-test-versions --start=2.9.0 test.sh

The command is going to do a few things ...

• fetch all release tarballs from releases.ansible.com
• extract all the tarballs
• add a hacking/env-setup script from devel to all the extrated dirs
• iterate through releases defined by the arguments (or all) and run test.sh with them

The test.sh script is a minimal sort of "hello world" script that runs a simple playbook. Depending on what you are trying to fix or test, you'll need to edit the test.sh, site.yml, ansible.cfg and inventory files created by the ansible-workon script.