Can't install / find Ansible community.general.incus

Incus
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Following the directions at community.general.incus connection – Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI. — Ansible Community Documentation

root@tk2022:~# ansible-galaxy collection download community.general
Process download dependency map
Starting collection download process to '/root/collections'
Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/artifacts/community-general-10.1.0.tar.gz to /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-1071507j1m8xewx/tmpaasilbyr/community-general-10.1.0-q6b40knk
Downloading collection 'community.general:10.1.0' to '/root/collections'
Collection 'community.general:10.1.0' was downloaded successfully
Writing requirements.yml file of downloaded collections to '/root/collections/requirements.yml'
root@tk2022:~# ansible pets -m ping
jules | FAILED! => {
    "msg": "the connection plugin 'incus' was not found"
}
...
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Could you try: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general?

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Nothing to do. All requested collections are already installed. If you want to reinstall them, consider using `--force`.

I also did the --force same result

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So yeah installing community.general did not include incus. Is there a way to install the incus by itself. I only use ansible to create new containers. (which I would like to do)

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I think you have a misconfigurationed system. I just spun up a new Debian Bookworm instance and installed Ansible with apt-get.

Then I ran the install command I posted earlier.

I now have the Incus connector installed at ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/connection/incus.py

It looks like you are installing collections to /root/collections. Maybe you can find it under a similar path as mine. I suspect that your Ansilbe install is not picking up the correct path.

Any chance you can run Ansible from a Debian container like I did? What system are you trying to run Ansible from?

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I am running incus on a debian bookworm. I hadn’t noticed the /root/collections part I will dig a little deeper. Thank you!

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I have similar issue. ansible just does not see incus connection plugin:

$ ansible-doc -t connection -l | grep --count incus
0

Though I have the file at ~/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/connection/incus.py

I suspect this is because python 3.10 is too old. In another environment with python 3.11 ansible can recognize incus connection plugin.

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Thanks for the extra bit of information.

In this case, you can use pyenv. :slight_smile: It works well for me.

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Actually you are right it is installed but not picking it up.

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Figured it out.
The old inventory file had the “ansible_connection=lxd” for containers and I tried to just replace lxd with “ansible_connection=incus”. The snippet below works.

[containers:vars]
#ansible_connection=lxd
ansible_connection=community.general.incus
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In my case the reason turned out be different version of galaxy plugins installed in ~/.ansible.

They were conflicting with installed from pip / pipx

Once I removed ~/.ansible ansible started to notice incus connection plugin.

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