Ansible Collection Skeleton

[falon (Marco Favero)]

Hello, I’m trying to write my own collection skeleton. I’m trying to start with the default one. But it doesn’t work even if I call it from --collection-skeleton:

# ansible-galaxy collection init --force --collection-skeleton /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible/galaxy/data/default/collection/ my.pappo
ERROR! template error while templating string: Could not load "comment_ify": 'comment_ify'. String: ### REQUIRED
{% for option in required_config %}
[...]

My environent is:

ansible [core 2.16.2]
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.11.5 (main, Sep  7 2023, 00:00:00) [GCC 11.4.1 20230605 (Red Hat 11.4.1-2.1.0.1)] (/usr/bin/python3.11)
  jinja version = 3.1.3
  libyaml = True

The same happens if I copy the path /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible/galaxy/data/default/collection/ in a new folder and I call it with “–collection-skeleton”. I think I’m missing something about the right way to write new collection skeletons.

Could you help me to understand?
Thank you very much
Kind Regards
Marco

[shertel]

The default collection’s galaxy.yml.j2 uses an internal filter (comment_ify) that explicitly specified skeletons don’t have access to. You can use the default skeleton by omitting the --collection-skeleton /path/to/skeleton. The syntax is right for providing a custom skeleton. Any of the non-default skeletons should be valid starting point for a custom skeleton since they won’t use the internal filter.