MongoDB community pinboard

[dagwieers]

We could collectively benefit from forming a Working Group related to MongoDB integration. We have quite some contributors and users that are interested in improving this integration.

So this issue is a call to potential interested parties (earlier and existing contributors to Ansible). The benefits of having a Working Group is that members of the Working Group can:

• test, review and add shipits to existing MongoDB PRs
• work collectively on a MongoDB roadmap
• provide a single-point-of-contact for interested MongoDB contributors
• collaborate on a MongoDB-specific Wiki
• have a $team_mongodb in BOTMETA.yml for auto-notifying team members
• implement auto-labeling MongoDB issues and PRs

[dagwieers]

cc @elliotttf @gw0 @adq @podollb @laggyluke @cove @jirutka @prakritish @marcosdiez @Lujeni @jonathanbeber @mrgnr @robinro @petrovicboban @rhysmeister @gyurco @falexandrou @jkramarz @jorijinnall @mdiez-modus @overhacked @incognito1990 @carlochess
cc @sivel @resmo

[rhysmeister]

Interested. I'd appreciate if anyone could help out on getting this PR merged...

ansible/ansible#49690

A mongodb_shard module has been accepted and is a bit lonely! ;-)

I've also got some integration tests for these modules which I'd be happy to collaborate with others on.

Cheers,

Rhys

[dagwieers]

So the most important action for the MongoDB Working Group is adding integration tests for the existing and new modules. Integration tests are just playbooks that test a module in every aspect and context. You can find these integration tests in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/test/integration/targets

Look at how this is done for mysql and postgresql to see how a MongoDB database should be installed/configured before testing the modules.

I wrote down some thoughts on integration tests in the Wiki

[joelwking]

Soliciting feedback, I have a MongoDB module which inserts or queries a document from a MongoDB. It has some functionality overlap with mongodb lookup, not certain if that would be an issue if I contributed it to the Ansible project. See: https://gist.github.com/joelwking/a4cf2621d17cefeb6e74a2d5eca4ddda

[dagwieers]

If you want to actively lead or are interested to be part of this Working Group, add your name to the Wiki page ! If we have a large enough group, we can start our own MongoDB Working Group.

I started labeling all the MongoDB related issues and PRs so we can more easily track them:

• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pulls?q=is:pr+is:open+label:mongodb (10 open PRs)
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues?q=is:issue+is:open+label:mongodb (8 open issues)

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[rhysmeister]

@joelwking A handy additional to your module would be the ability to specify a document as yaml and have that converted into a json document. What do you think?

[dericcrago]

I'm going to try to migrate this pinboard to https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mongodb but there may be a slight disruption as it requires multiple moves. I will follow up when the migration has been completed.

[dericcrago]

migrated and pinned!

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[Lujeni]

So the most important action for the MongoDB Working Group is adding integration tests for the existing and new modules.

I had started (few years ago ;o) writing tests that covered a large part of the users/databases module. I'll see if it can be useful