Molecule Plugins in 2023¶

As part of the effort to revive molecule project some drastic measures were put in place.

Unmaintained drivers archived between January 5th-8th, 2023: openstack, goss, libvirt, alicloud, vmware, digitalocean, kubevirt, lxd, inspec. Anyone wanting to revive and maintain one of these will have to make a pull request against molecule-plugins repository.

The relatively active drivers were moved to molecule-plugins repository, where we expected them to be maintained by the community.

Which drivers should we still see in addition to delegated?¶

azure
docker
containers
podman
ec2
gce
vagrant

How did we measure the driver popularity?¶

With a simple sourcegraph search, we can get an use count for public repos. Here are some of the results:

pie title Popularity of molecule drivers on github
  "docker" : 3700
  "vagrant" : 1300
  "delegated": 944
  "ec2": 272
  "gce": 269
  "podman": 189
  "openstack": 49
  "azure": 20
  "containers": 19
  "vmware": 11
  "lxd": 2

What if I used a driver that was not migrated?¶

If you are using one of the drivers that was not migrated and you want to maintain it, you can start by creating a pull-request towards molecule-plugins repository to add its code there.