ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS Deprecation Warning When Running Ansible Playbooks in Red Hat Satellite

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

Red Hat Satellite 6.16

Issue

When an Ansible playbook is executed in the Red Hat Satellite console, the following deprecation warning is displayed:

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS  option, does not fit var naming standard, use the singular form ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH instead. This feature will be removed from ansible-core in version 2.19. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.

Resolution

  • In the file /etc/foreman-proxy/ansible.env change the variable COLLECTIONS_PATHS from

     export ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS="/etc/ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections"

    to

     export ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH="/etc/ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections"

  • As this is a variable rename, no services need to be restarted to refresh the changes.

Root Cause

  • The variable ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS was deprecated in favor of singular ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH. The old variable will be removed in ansible-core version 2.19.

Diagnostic Steps

Whenever an Ansible playbook is executed in the Satellite console.

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