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Ansible CI on GitHub Actions

Collection and role installation runs before every playbook.

50s → 3s
Galaxy install

Collection and role installation runs before every playbook.

Why it happens

~/.ansible/collections is not cached, so Galaxy is queried on every run.

What to change

  1. Cache ~/.ansible/collections keyed on requirements.yml
  2. Run ansible-lint in a parallel job rather than serially
  3. Use --check mode in pull requests and apply only on merge

Ansible on runnerhut

yaml
jobs:
  lint:
    runs-on: runnerhut-2vcpu-ubuntu-2404
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
      - run: ansible-lint
A working starting point

The only runnerhut-specific line is `runs-on: runnerhut-2vcpu-ubuntu-2404`. Everything else is standard GitHub Actions — the same actions, the same secrets and the same permissions model you use today.

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