Add CI testing against ansible-core devel branch

.github/workflows/trigger_scheduled_devel.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+---
+name: "Scheduled CI - ansible-core devel"
+on: # yamllint disable
+  schedule:
+    # Run every Wednesday at 03:20 UTC (offset from Monday stable run)
+    - cron: "20 3 * * 3"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      branch:
+        description: "The ansible-core branch to test against"
+        required: false
+        default: "devel"
+        type: string
+
+env:
+  ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH: "${{ inputs.branch || 'devel' }}"
+
+jobs:
+  unit:
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version:
+          - "3.12"
+    env:
+      INVOKE_NAUTOBOT_ANSIBLE_PYTHON_VER: "${{ matrix.python-version }}"
+    # Allow failures — devel breakage is expected and should not block anything
+    continue-on-error: true
+    steps:
+      - name: "Check out repository code"
+        uses: "actions/checkout@v4"
+      - name: "Install invoke"
+        run: "pip install -U pip && pip install invoke packaging"
+      - name: "Run tests against ansible-core ${{ env.ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH }}"
+        run: "invoke unit --ansible-core-branch ${{ env.ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH }} --skip lint"

Dockerfile

@@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ ENV SKIP_LINT_TESTS=${SKIP_LINT_TESTS}
 # Install dev dependencies
 RUN poetry install
 
+# Optionally install ansible-core from a specific branch (e.g. "devel" or "milestone")
+# This must come AFTER poetry install so the lock file version doesn't overwrite it.
+ARG ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH
+RUN if [ -n "${ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH}" ]; then \
+    pip install --upgrade pip setuptools && \
+    pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps \
+    "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/${ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH}.tar.gz"; \
+    fi
+
 # Copy in the application source and everything not explicitly banned by .dockerignore
 COPY . .
 

changes/718.housekeeping

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added CI testing against ansible-core devel branch and `--ansible-core-branch` flag on `invoke unit` for local testing.

docker-compose.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 x-args:
   &args
   PYTHON_VER: ${PYTHON_VER}
+  ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH: ${ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH:-}
   ANSIBLE_SANITY_ARGS: ${ANSIBLE_SANITY_ARGS:-}
   ANSIBLE_UNIT_ARGS: ${ANSIBLE_UNIT_ARGS:-}
   SKIP_LINT_TESTS: ${SKIP_LINT_TESTS:-}

tasks.py

@@ -242,13 +242,16 @@ def lint(context):
     help={
         "verbose": "Run the tests with verbose output; can be provided multiple times for more verbosity (e.g. -v, -vv, -vvv)",
         "skip": "Skip specific tests (choices: lint, sanity, unit); can be provided multiple times (e.g. --skip lint --skip sanity)",
+        "ansible_core_branch": "Test against a specific ansible-core git branch (e.g. 'devel', 'milestone')",
     },
     iterable=["skip"],
     incrementable=["verbose"],
 )
-def unit(context, verbose=0, skip=None):
+def unit(context, verbose=0, skip=None, ansible_core_branch=None):
     """Run unit tests."""
     env = {"PYTHON_VER": context.nautobot_ansible.python_ver}
+    if ansible_core_branch is not None:
+        env["ANSIBLE_CORE_BRANCH"] = ansible_core_branch
     if verbose:
         env["ANSIBLE_SANITY_ARGS"] = f"-{'v' * verbose}"
         env["ANSIBLE_UNIT_ARGS"] = f"-{'v' * verbose}"