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ansible-community

molecule

An ansible-native testing framework for collections, playbooks, and roles with configurable workflows for testing any system or service
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

molecule has 2.2M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 26.6.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of ansible-compat, ansible-core and click. It is used by 12 tracked packages, including molecule-plugins, ansible-dev-tools and molecule-hetznercloud.

GitHub topics include ansible, testing and testing-framework.

Downloads
Day
70.7K
Week
485.7K
Month
2.2M
Stars
4.1K
Forks
668
Issues
71
Version
26.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
78
Adoption
70
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,209,254
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,209,254
Stars
4,118
Stars per 1k downloads
1.86
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
69,384
Month daily avg
73,642
Momentum
-5.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
6 days ago
Total releases
123
Releases/year
13.1
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
342
Monthly downloads
2,209,254
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
69
 
Issue Burden
17.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
51.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 41.4K
macOS 139
Windows 15

Python Versions

3.12
53.1% 20.1K
3.13
21.0% 7.9K
3.11
14.6% 5.5K
3.14
7.0% 2.7K
3.8
4.3% 1.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
34.5K
2. DE DE
1.5K
3. BE BE
941
4. SG SG
718
5. CA CA
525
6. GB GB
421
7. CZ CZ
393
8. NL NL
364
9. IE IE
342
10. FR FR
325

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
February 21, 2017
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
26.6.0
Total Releases
123
Contributors
342
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
ansible molecule roles testing
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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