Hello Community! I need some help to skip/exclude the ‘pwsh’ component from integration tests. I was building ansible package and executing Unit, Sanity and Integration tests on ppc64le arch, but in Integration tests few tests requires pwsh (powershell) components, but it was not supported on ppc…

@mattclay Do you know why ANSIBLE_SKIP_PWSH_MODULES isn’t working as expected, @prabhuk is trying to skip this as it’s not available on ppc64le

Do you know why ANSIBLE_SKIP_PWSH_MODULES isn’t working as expected I’ve not heard or seen any reference to this environment variable or any like that. Is it documented anywhere?

No, it was not documented anywhere, I have used it while executing build script and tried to skip, but still pwsh components were executing. Could you please provide more info how pwsh component invoke and how we can exclude?

@prabhuk I don’t see any reference to SKIP_PWSH_MODULES in the Ansible codebase, though maybe I’m looking in the wrong place. Where did you find reference to it?

Yeah, as I mentioned earlier I was executing integration test and it was calling inside it, mentioned few reference which i found, it might not be exact ones, since I can see pwsh is calling from many places, test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/mod…

What is the command you are trying? Is there any PowerShell modules in your source directory?

There is no ANSIBLE_SKIP_PWSH_MODULES environment variable or setting. Not all integration tests will work on ppc64le. For those cases, you’ll need to skip those tests. Tests that rely on PowerShell are one example of this, but there are others.

Yeah, there are many PowerShell dependent modules in ansible , currently getting an error from - plugins/modules/win_util_args.ps1 I was executing an Integration test with command “./bin/ansible-test integration --python 3.12” which internally triggers sanity test “ansible-test sanity --test validat…

oh, ok, Can I know how if there are any other way apart from –exclude to skip those tests? And by any chance list of tests which are not supported on ppc64le, it saves me a lot of time.

Using --exclude is the correct way to skip integration tests that would otherwise match the test criteria you specified. Keep in mind the argument is a regular expression, so you can specify multiple test targets at once, such as --exclude 'some_test|another_test' We do not maintain a list of tests…

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prabhuk (Prabhu K) March 19, 2026, 12:43pm 15

Hey @Akasurde, sorry for delayed response, I had created seperate topic to discuss on failure with logs, please review - Excluded failed Integration test cases on ppc64le

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