Ansible collections in docker container not being picked up

Question

I've got a 2.9.13 ansible container running. I install a few collection in the container and they end up in:

./root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/<namespace>/<collection>

When I run the playbook from a folder in my home directory I get role cannot be found.

ERROR! the role 'tower-verify' was not found in <namespace>.<collection>:redhat_cop.tower_configuration:ansible.tower:ansible.legacy:/home/<playbook>/roles:/root/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/home/<playbook>

It seems to check the collection but cannot find it.

root@1a3f9e1234c5:~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/<namespace>/<collection>/roles# ls
tower-verify

I have the following sections in the playbook code:

  collections:
    - <namespace>.<collection>
    - redhat_cop.tower_configuration
    - ansible.tower

  roles:
    - {role: tower-verify, tags: tower_verify}

ansible.cfg entry:

# Install collections into [current dir]/ansible_collections/namespace/collections_name
collections_paths = ./

So is ansible really checking that location?

Thanks for any assistance ahead of time.

Answer 1

For the time being I dropped the collections under the playbook project in a collections folder.