Ansible stacks error out at initialization

[nathanwasson]

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something, but the README for this image says the following:

Based on the base AWS spacelift image, with tailscale added to save re-downloading every run.

The Readme is written mentioning Terraform but it will work out the box for OpenTofu, Pulumi, Ansible, etc as well.

However, Spacelift's base terraform image is separate from its base Ansible image. When trying to run an Ansible stack with this spacelift-tailscale image, the runs always error out at the beginning of the initialization stage saying:

Error finding binary "ansible-playbook": exec: "ansible-playbook": executable file not found in $PATH

Has anyone confirmed that this image does work with Ansible? If so, I guess I'm doing something wrong with my Ansible stack setup.

Thanks

[nathanwasson]

Okay, I ended up forking the repo and making an Ansible-specific version of the container image by using Spacelift's runner-ansible as the base image instead of runner-terraform. It took a bit of debugging to get the SOCKS5 proxy working with SSH, as the BusyBox version of netcat that comes with the Alpine Linux image upon which spacelift/runner-ansible is based does not support the -x option for SOCKS5. My updated Dockerfile layers on netcat-openbsd for that reason, as well as bash to run the spacetail helper script. I also note in the README of my fork how to set a ProxyCommand to use netcat so SSH over Tailscale will work properly for Ansible.

The result: ghcr.io/nathanwasson/spacelift-tailscale-ansible:latest

Let me know if this is all unnecessary, as it's entirely possible I'm missing something and there's a better way to do this.