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Molecule

No phone app

6.3No. 18 of 26
in Infrastructure Testing Tools
  • Recognised40% of the score62
  • Phone app26% of the score0
  • Documented20% of the score57
  • Free plan14% of the score30
Free plan
No
Runs on
Linux
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Summary

Molecule is ranked #18 of 26 in infrastructure testing tools on Samsung Mobile US Press. It runs on Linux.

Compared on infrastructure testing tools

IaC support
Ansibledocs.ansible.com
Config compliance
Yesdocs.ansible.com
Provisioning tests
Yesdocs.ansible.com
Deployed checks
Yesdocs.ansible.com
Execution model
localdocs.ansible.com
Cloud support
AWS, Azure, GCPdocs.ansible.com

Facts

Purpose
Molecule is an Ansible testing framework for developing and testing collections, playbooks, and roles.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Test targets
Test scenarios can target systems and services reachable from Ansible, including containers, virtual machines, cloud infrastructure, APIs, databases, and network devices.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Ansible versions
Molecule supports only the latest two major versions of Ansible (N/N-1).docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Test workflows
Its configurable actions include provisioning, dependency installation, preparation, convergence, idempotence checks, verification, cleanup, and destruction.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Installation
The documentation names pip as the only supported installation method and recommends installing Molecule through the ansible-dev-tools package.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Drivers
Molecule uses the delegated driver by default, and other drivers can be installed separately, most through the molecule-plugins package.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
CI integrations
The documentation provides continuous integration examples for GitHub Actions, Travis CI, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins Pipeline, and Tox.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Container option
Molecule is included in the Ansible Development Tools container image.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Command line
Molecule can be invoked with the molecule command or as a Python module using python3 -m molecule.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Platform requirements
Installation requires Python packaging and Python management on the system running Molecule, and the documentation gives package installation examples for CentOS and Ubuntu.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Notable limitation
Molecule does not include ansible-lint; the installation documentation instructs users to install it separately.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Who it is for
The getting-started guides direct Ansible role, playbook project, and collection developers to different testing paths.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026
Security
The documentation recommends installing Molecule in a virtual environment and notes a possible issue on SELinux-supporting systems when installed into one.docs.ansible.com · 5 Oct 2026

Company

Founded
2015docs.ansible.com · 28 Sept 2026

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