Environment variables can no longer be be passed to the verifier since Molecule 6

[boutetnico]

Issue Type

• Bug report

Molecule and Ansible details

ansible --version && molecule --version
ansible [core 2.15.3]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/home/runner/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.4/x64/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/runner/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.4/x64/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.11.4 (main, Jun  7 [20](https://github.com/boutetnico/molecule-6-broken-env/actions/runs/5865269114/job/15901845920#step:6:21)[23](https://github.com/boutetnico/molecule-6-broken-env/actions/runs/5865269114/job/15901845920#step:6:24), 11:01:02) [GCC 11.3.0] (/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.4/x64/bin/python)
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True
molecule 5.1.0 using python 3.11 
    ansible:2.15.3
    azure:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins
    containers:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: ansible.posix>=1.3.0 community.docker>=1.9.1 containers.podman>=1.8.1
    delegated:5.1.0 from molecule
    docker:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: community.docker>=3.0.2 ansible.posix>=1.4.0
    ec2:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins
    gce:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: google.cloud>=1.0.2 community.crypto>=1.8.0
    podman:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: containers.podman>=1.7.0 ansible.posix>=1.3.0
    vagrant:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins

Molecule installation method (one of):

• pip

Ansible installation method (one of):

• pip

Detail any linters or test runners used:

Desired Behavior

Prior to Molecule 6 and as stated in Molecule documentation, it should be possible to pass env vars to the verifier:

Actual Behaviour

The env var is no longer passed to the verifier.
I have created a test repo with a a GitHub action running both molecule 5 (working) and 6 (failing during verify) to make it easy to reproduce.

[jpodivin]

I have the same issue with the MOLECULE_INVENTORY_FILE variable.

[zhan9san]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I'll submit a PR fixing it.

It's introduced in https://github.com/ansible/molecule/pull/3958/files#diff-484e298af273a464276755e85baba0628e876f99d4fa6b3488cf269d344a1b30L159

[cidrblock]

Closed by #4014 in v6.0.1