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ci: cache pip downloads for WSL ansible-base install #397

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ci: cache pip downloads for WSL ansible-base install
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ci: forward PIP_CACHE_DIR into WSL and use a rolling cache key
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ci: use lowlysre/config-ansible-remote-action for WinRM setup
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24 changes: 18 additions & 6 deletions .github/workflows/ansible-test-windows.yml
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Expand Up @@ -80,6 +80,15 @@ jobs:
GROUP: ${{ matrix.group }} # zizmor: ignore[template-injection] -- Matrix value from controlled environment
PYTHON: python3
CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }} # zizmor: ignore[secrets-outside-env] -- Codecov token needed for coverage uploads; environment protection would block PR-triggered runs
# Relative to github.workspace, which is also the default cwd for wsl-bash steps below.
# wsl.exe transparently maps that Windows path into WSL via drvfs, so the same files on
# disk can be cached directly by actions/cache (running on the Windows host) without
# reaching into the WSL rootfs (where pip's real default cache dir would otherwise live).
PIP_CACHE_DIR: .pip-cache
# wsl-bash launches `wsl.exe bash ...` directly, which does NOT inherit arbitrary Windows
# env vars; only names listed in WSLENV get imported into the guest. /u makes this
# one-way (Windows -> Linux), no path translation needed since the value is relative.
WSLENV: PIP_CACHE_DIR/u

steps:
- name: Check out code
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net localgroup Administrators admin /add

- name: Set up the runner for PowerShell remoting
shell: powershell
run: |
# Pinned to a commit in the current home of this script; latest version at
# https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1
$sb = [ScriptBlock]::Create((New-Object System.Net.Webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible-documentation/b8cf495929aa200a11abc7468d1fb6cd9c0e1613/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1'))
& $sb -Verbose -ForceNewSSLCert 4>&1
uses: lowlysre/config-ansible-remote-action@89ef42324b31e17b10f7e520508a1cab14c2ef33 # v1.0.0

- name: Add a hosts entry # zizmor: ignore[misfeature] -- Windows-specific cmd required for hosts file modification
shell: cmd
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done
exit 1

- name: Cache pip downloads/wheels
uses: actions/cache@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v6.1.0
with:
path: ${{ env.PIP_CACHE_DIR }}
key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-${{ matrix.ansible }}-${{ matrix.group }}-${{ github.run_id }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-pip-${{ matrix.ansible }}-${{ matrix.group }}-

# Override break-sys-pkg defaults, because we don't need to bother with python venv for CI
#
# ansible-core devel requires Python >= 3.13 (see pyproject.toml on the devel branch),
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