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Ansible TUI – a zero-dependency terminal UI for running playbooks
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Setup for testing ansible setups fast
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testing Ansible playbooks *fast*
by lucasluitjes·Mar 28, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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Replaces slow VM tests with 11-second LXD container spins using ZFS snapshots.
Strengths
- •ZFS snapshots revert containers instantly instead of rebuilding VMs every time.
- •Host-level apt caching plus eatmydata drastically reduce overall system package installation latency.
- •Enables SSH pipelining and persistent connections to remove repeated SSH authentication overhead.
Weaknesses
- •Requires ZFS and LXD on host, limiting compatibility to Linux environments.
- •Less feature-rich than Molecule, lacks any built-in scenario management or verification plugins.
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Target Audience
DevOps engineers and sysadmins using Ansible
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Molecule · Vagrant · Testinfra
Post Description
Testing ansible playbooks against local VMs is nice. But also pretty slow. I was wondering how far I could optimize that process while still having full reproducibility.
rebuild.sh makes a fresh Ubuntu installation, runs an ansible playbook to install Caddy and configures it, and uses curl to verify that Caddy is running correctly.
$ time ./rebuild.sh
[...]
real 0m11.664s
user 0m0.789s
sys 0m0.925s
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