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Add best_practices.md at the repo root so Qodo can flag common Ansible issues automatically on every PR. Covers 28 rules (10 Critical, 18 Suggestion) for things like error handling, retries, secrets, Jinja2 safety, and idempotency. Rules already caught by CI linters are excluded.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added comprehensive CI-Framework best-practices guidance for Ansible roles, playbooks, and plugins.
    • Includes recommendations, YAML examples, and checklists covering reliability, security, compatibility, testing, diagnostics, and maintainability.

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Added best_practices.md with CI-Framework standards for Ansible development, validation, diagnostics, and merge-request sizing. The guide includes checklists and good/bad YAML examples.

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Ansible Practices Documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Execution contracts and safe task behavior
best_practices.md
Documents idempotency, error handling, retries, secret protection, configurable inputs, compatibility, imports, wait loops, validation, Jinja2 access, privilege escalation, role interfaces, and cleanup.
Task implementation and validation
best_practices.md
Documents task granularity, role documentation, Molecule outcome testing, generated files, variable scope, status reporting, loop handling, file modes, and static-value usage.
Diagnostics and merge-request practices
best_practices.md
Documents artifact logging, constraint comments, guarded debug tasks, rescue diagnostics, and merge-request sizing and dependency ordering.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9dec2

This PR adds automated Ansible guidance, but several examples currently recommend or describe unsafe behavior, including possible secret exposure, duplicate external operations, incomplete failure diagnostics, non-idempotent service handling, and examples that can fail at runtime. The document should be corrected before merge so automated checks do not reinforce these problems.

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best_practices.md (1)

363-364: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use ansible.builtin.systemd_service in the example. ansible.builtin.systemd is a backward-compatible alias. This change improves consistency with the repository’s FQCN guidance; the Markdown snippet is not an Ansible-lint CI failure.

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In `@best_practices.md` around lines 363 - 364, Update the ansible.builtin.systemd
module reference in the example to ansible.builtin.systemd_service, preserving
the existing name: app configuration and surrounding content.
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Inline comments:
In `@best_practices.md`:
- Around line 414-419: Update the “Generated Files” section in best_practices.md
to state that only the molecule section of zuul.d/projects.yaml is generated,
while retaining the generated-file warning for zuul.d/molecule.yaml. Keep the
make role_molecule and make check_zuul_files commands documented, and avoid
implying that the entire projects file is generated.
- Around line 422-443: The register-variable naming guidance conflicts with the
required role-variable convention. Update the section to recommend cifmw_* names
for persistent cross-role set_fact values, while reserving _... names
exclusively for task-local registered variables.
- Around line 347-360: Update the “Create application directory” and “Deploy
configuration” tasks so the sequence works in a non-root play: add task-level
privilege escalation to both tasks, or replace /opt/app with a configurable path
writable by the play user while preserving the existing ownership and deployment
behavior.
- Around line 84-106: Update the “External Service Calls Must Be Retried”
guidance to require retries only for idempotent or explicitly retry-safe
operations, using an idempotency key for non-idempotent requests; restrict
retries to transient failures and require a per-attempt timeout in addition to
retries, delay, and until. Revise the examples and wording without mandating
blind retries for every external call.
- Around line 568-579: Update the “Collect service logs” task so oc logs
failures are not silently treated as successful: either remove failed_when:
false and handle the command through rescue, or, if collection remains best
effort, include _app_logs.stderr and _app_logs.rc in the saved artifact and
explicitly report a nonzero result. Preserve the existing artifact destination
and successful stdout collection.
- Line 128: Set the task’s no_log value unconditionally to true instead of
deriving it from cifmw_nolog, ensuring cifmw_manage_secrets_citoken_content
cannot be exposed. Do not add a general runtime override; any debugging
exception must be isolated to an explicitly development-only path excluded from
CI.
- Around line 280-297: Update the “Good” YAML example to pass the documented
public input for role bar when invoking that role, rather than setting
cifmw_bar_internal_flag with set_fact. Remove the cross-role internal-fact
override and show role foo using its documented override interface to configure
bar’s public variable.
- Around line 177-186: Update the “WRONG” import_tasks loop explanation to state
that import_tasks does not support loops and Ansible rejects this usage, rather
than claiming it silently runs once. Preserve include_tasks as the correct
choice for runtime loops.
- Around line 447-450: Update the “set_fact vs vars” section to clarify that
set_fact creates a host-level variable for the current playbook run, while it is
stored in the fact cache only when cacheable: true and fact caching is
configured; replace the claim that it inherently pollutes the fact cache.
- Around line 361-365: Update the “Restart application” service task to be
idempotent: use state started when a restart is not required, or move the
restart to a handler notified only when configuration changes. Preserve the
existing app service name and privilege settings.
- Around line 72-79: Initialize the diagnostic value before the rescue-capable
block so it is defined even when the wait task never runs, and update the “Show
what failed” task to render _deploy with a safe fallback for undefined values.
Keep the existing “Fail with context” behavior unchanged.
- Around line 494-499: Update the “Apply sysctl settings” example so changed
status is determined from the pre-change state rather than sysctl’s post-write
stdout; preferably use ansible.posix.sysctl, or read the current value before
invoking the command and base changed_when on that result.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@best_practices.md`:
- Around line 363-364: Update the ansible.builtin.systemd module reference in
the example to ansible.builtin.systemd_service, preserving the existing name:
app configuration and surrounding content.
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Add `best_practices.md` at the repo root so Qodo can flag common Ansible
issues automatically on every PR. Covers 28 rules (10 Critical,
18 Suggestion) for things like error handling, retries, secrets, Jinja2
safety, and idempotency. Rules already caught by CI linters are excluded.

Signed-off-by: nemarjan <nemarjan@redhat.com>

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