Question

Replacement for archived Ansible "molecule-digitalocean" plugin?

Posted on February 27, 2025
Ansible DigitalOcean
Asked by Seumas Froemke

It seems that molecule-digitalocean was archived a year ago. Are there any working and active replacements?

Submit an answer

This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• February 27, 2025

Accepted Answer

Hi Seumas,

You’re right—the molecule-digitalocean plugin was archived in early 2023 :(

https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/team-devtools/stats/molecule-plugins/

As far as I know, currently, there’s no direct replacement maintained by the Ansible community. However, you have a couple of options:

Molecule’s built-in delegated driver allows you to manage instances manually. You can provision DigitalOcean Droplets using Ansible playbooks or the doctl CLI, and then point Molecule to these instances for testing.
If you’re up for it, you can fork the archived molecule-digitalocean repository and maintain it independently. This would involve updating it to be compatible with the latest versions of Molecule and Ansible.

If you believe there’s significant demand for a dedicated DigitalOcean driver, you could consider proposing this on the Ansible community or contributing to the project.

- Bobby