Add tests for Ansible core 2.17 (devel is 2.18 today) and bump tests dependencies (#623)

* Add tests for Ansible core 2.17 (devel is 2.18 today)

* Drop tests for Ansible core 2.14 and add 2.17

* Cut duplicate exclude

* Add back python 3.8 and 3.9 for stable2.15

* Bump action to prevent deprecation warnings

* Cut python 3.9 for devel in roles tests

* Attempt to fix GHA line folding

* fix typo

* Bump ubuntu

Latest ansible-test doesn't work with old ubuntu. See here for more
info: https://github.com/ansible-collections/collection_template/blob/main/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml#L83-L91

* fix docker_image var assignation

* fix yamllint false positive

* Attempt to fix docker_image_multiline assignation

* Fix empty var due to scope of each command

* Attempt to fix docker_image assignation

* fix error "vars should be dict"

* Document URL of the repository for the action ansible-test-gh-action

* Disable role tests

* Document ansible-core version tested

* Cut ansible-core 2.14 from testing documentation

.github/workflows/ansible-test-plugins.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Plugins CI
-on:
+on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
   push:
     paths:
       - 'plugins/**'
@@ -18,15 +18,16 @@ on:
 jobs:
   sanity:
     name: "Sanity (Ansible: ${{ matrix.ansible }})"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
         ansible:
-          - stable-2.14
           - stable-2.15
           - stable-2.16
+          - stable-2.17
           - devel
     steps:
+      # https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action
       - name: Perform sanity testing
         uses: ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action@release/v1
         with:
@@ -36,14 +37,14 @@ jobs:
 
   integration:
     name: "Integration (Python: ${{ matrix.python }}, Ansible: ${{ matrix.ansible }}, DB: ${{ matrix.db_engine_name }} ${{ matrix.db_engine_version }}, connector: ${{ matrix.connector_name }} ${{ matrix.connector_version }})"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         ansible:
-          - stable-2.14
           - stable-2.15
           - stable-2.16
+          - stable-2.17
           - devel
         db_engine_name:
           - mysql
@@ -111,9 +112,6 @@ jobs:
           - db_engine_version: 5.7.40
             python: '3.10'
 
-          - db_engine_version: 5.7.40
-            ansible: stable-2.14
-
           - db_engine_version: 5.7.40
             ansible: stable-2.15
 
@@ -126,9 +124,6 @@ jobs:
           - db_engine_version: 8.0.31
             python: '3.8'
 
-          - db_engine_version: 8.0.31
-            python: '3.8'
-
           - db_engine_version: 10.4.27
             python: '3.10'
 
@@ -174,23 +169,20 @@ jobs:
           - python: '3.10'
             connector_version: 2.0.3
 
-          - python: '3.8'
-            ansible: stable-2.14
-
-          - python: '3.8'
-            ansible: stable-2.15
-
           - python: '3.8'
             ansible: stable-2.16
 
+          - python: '3.8'
+            ansible: stable-2.17
+
           - python: '3.8'
             ansible: devel
 
           - python: '3.9'
-            ansible: stable-2.15
+            ansible: stable-2.16
 
           - python: '3.9'
-            ansible: stable-2.16
+            ansible: stable-2.17
 
           - python: '3.9'
             ansible: devel
@@ -284,16 +276,12 @@ jobs:
           fi
 
       - name: Set docker_image
-        run: >
-          docker_image_multiline=("
-          ghcr.io/ansible-collections/community.mysql\
+        run: |-
+          echo "docker_image=ghcr.io/ansible-collections/community.mysql\
           /test-container-${{ env.db_client }}\
           -py${{ env.python_version_flat }}\
           -${{ matrix.connector_name }}${{ env.connector_version_flat }}\
-          :latest")
-
-          echo "docker_image=$(printf '%s' $docker_image_multiline)"
-          >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          :latest" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: >-
           Perform integration testing against
@@ -332,7 +320,7 @@ jobs:
           testing-type: integration
 
   units:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     name: Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }})
     strategy:
       # As soon as the first unit test fails,
@@ -340,20 +328,20 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: true
       matrix:
         ansible:
-          - stable-2.14
           - stable-2.15
           - stable-2.16
+          - stable-2.17
           - devel
         python:
           - 3.8
           - 3.9
         exclude:
-          - python: '3.8'
-            ansible: stable-2.14
           - python: '3.8'
             ansible: stable-2.15
           - python: '3.8'
             ansible: stable-2.16
+          - python: '3.8'
+            ansible: stable-2.17
           - python: '3.8'
             ansible: devel