"The role was not found" and "Failed to load container.yml" errors

[mac89]

ISSUE TYPE

• Question

container.yml

version: "2"
settings:

  conductor:
    # The Conductor container does the heavy lifting, and provides a portable
    # Python runtime for building your target containers. It should be derived
    # from the same distribution as you're building your target containers with.
    base: centos:7
    # volumes:      # Provide a list of volumes to mount
    # environment:  # List or mapping of environment variables

  # Set the name of the project. Defaults to basename of the project directory.
  # For built services, concatenated with service name to form the built image name.
  project_name: demo

  # The deployment_output_path is mounted to the Conductor container, and the
  # `run` and `deployment` commands then write generated Ansible playbooks to it.
  # deployment_output_path: ./ansible-deployment

  # When using the k8s or openshift engines, use the following to authorize with the API.
  # Values set here will be passed to the Ansible modules. Any file paths will be mounted
  # to the conductor container, allowing the `run` command to access the API.
  #k8s_auth:
    # path to a K8s config file
    #config_file:
    # name of a context found within the config file
    #context:
    # URL for accessing the K8s API
    #host:
    # An API authentication token
    #api_key:
    # Path to a ca cert file
    #ssl_ca_cert:
    # Path to a cert file
    #cert_file:
    # Path to a key file
    #key_file:
    # boolean, indicating if SSL certs should be validated
    #verify_ssl:

  # When using the k8s or openshift engines, use the following to set the namespace.
  # If not set, the project name will be used. For openshift, the namespace maps to a project,
  # and description and display_name are supported.
  #k8s_namespace:
  #  name:
  #  description:
  #  display_name:

services:
  # Add your containers here, specifying the base image you want to build from.
  # To use this example, uncomment it and delete the curly braces after services key.
  # You may need to run `docker pull ubuntu:trusty` for this to work.

   web:
     from: "centos:7"
     roles:
       - role: flask
  #   ports:
  #     - "80:80"
  #   command: ["systemctl daemon-reload"]
  #   dev_overrides:
  #     environment:
  #       - "DEBUG=1"
registries: {}
  # Add optional registries used for deployment. For example:
  #  google:
  #    url: https://gcr.io
  #    namespace: my-cool-project-xxxxxx

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Windows 10
Docker version 18.06.0-ce, build 0ffa825
Ansible/Ansible-container running in Docker image `mac89/ansible-container`

SUMMARY

I get the following error the role 'flask' was not found in ./roles:/src/roles:/etc/ansible/roles: when attempting to build the container from within my Docker image mac89/ansible-container. I suspect it has something to do with my running ansible-container from within a Docker image, but I have no idea how to solve it.

Using the steps described here I can use external roles: https://hub.docker.com/r/mac89/ansible-container/

However I cannot use ansible-container install which results in the error container.exceptions.AnsibleContainerGalaxyFatalException: Failed to load container.yml: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/src/con tainer.yml'

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

You can reproduce by using my Docker image and adding the volume mapping /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock and executing the commands below.

docker exec -it YOUR_CONTAINER_ID bash
mkdir demo
cd demo
ansible-container init
pico container.yml (add flask role)
ansible-container build

EXPECTED RESULTS

The role to be found and the container to build

ACTUAL RESULTS

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/conductor", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ansible-container', 'console_scripts', 'conductor')()
  File "/_ansible/container/__init__.py", line 19, in __wrapped__
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/_ansible/container/cli.py", line 389, in conductor_commandline
    conductor_config = AnsibleContainerConductorConfig(list_to_ordereddict(containers_config))
  File "/_ansible/container/__init__.py", line 19, in __wrapped__
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/_ansible/container/config.py", line 297, in __init__
    self._process_services()
  File "/_ansible/container/config.py", line 357, in _process_services
    role_metadata = get_metadata_from_role(role_name)
  File "/_ansible/container/__init__.py", line 19, in __wrapped__
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/_ansible/container/utils/__init__.py", line 275, in get_metadata_from_role
    return get_content_from_role(role_name, os.path.join('meta', 'container.yml'))
  File "/_ansible/container/__init__.py", line 19, in __wrapped__
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/_ansible/container/utils/__init__.py", line 264, in get_content_from_role
    role_path = resolve_role_to_path(role_name)
  File "/_ansible/container/__init__.py", line 19, in __wrapped__
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/_ansible/container/utils/__init__.py", line 210, in resolve_role_to_path
    loader=loader)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/role/include.py", line 59, in load
    return ri.load_data(data, variable_manager=variable_manager, loader=loader)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/base.py", line 244, in load_data
    ds = self.preprocess_data(ds)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/role/definition.py", line 94, in preprocess_data
    (role_name, role_path) = self._load_role_path(role_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/role/definition.py", line 187, in _load_role_path
    raise AnsibleError("the role '%s' was not found in %s" % (role_name, ":".join(role_search_paths)), obj=self._ds)
ansible.errors.AnsibleError: the role 'flask' was not found in ./roles:/src/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:.
Conductor terminated. Cleaning up.      command_rc=1 conductor_id=ebddaca72c02d2f0eb20d37e85511d869fcc29175e947726d949286348dc4a3b save
_container=False

Parsing conductor CLI args.
- downloading role 'solr', owned by geerlingguy
- downloading role from https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-solr/archive/4.2.2.tar.gz
- extracting geerlingguy.solr to /tmp/tmplHyWDz/geerlingguy.solr
ERROR   Failed to load container.yml: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/src/container.yml'
Undoing changes to .yml files
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/conductor", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ansible-container', 'console_scripts', 'conductor')()
  File "/_ansible/container/__init__.py", line 19, in __wrapped__
- geerlingguy.solr (4.2.2) was installed successfully
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/_ansible/container/cli.py", line 399, in conductor_commandline
    **params)
  File "/_ansible/container/__init__.py", line 19, in __wrapped__
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/_ansible/container/core.py", line 940, in conductorcmd_install
    galaxy.install(roles)
  File "/_ansible/container/utils/galaxy.py", line 74, in install
    self._update_container_yml(role_obj)
  File "/_ansible/container/utils/galaxy.py", line 135, in _update_container_yml
    raise exceptions.AnsibleContainerGalaxyFatalException('Failed to load container.yml: %s' % str(exc))
container.exceptions.AnsibleContainerGalaxyFatalException: Failed to load container.yml: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/src/con
tainer.yml'
Conductor terminated. Cleaning up.      command_rc=1 conductor_id=493a4cb91702e61cb9a03f5f1e283754768e0fc6b94cdf0d689a68ea55cd210c save
_container=False
ERROR   Conductor exited with status 1

[Voronenko]

If it still actual, I suggest to prepare small repo with use case with instructions in Readme, and put it on github