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Replacement for archived Ansible "molecule-digitalocean" plugin?

Posted on February 27, 2025

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



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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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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

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