Playbook not compatible with Ansible 12

[targos]

When I run ansible-playbook ansible/playbooks/jenkins/docker-host.yaml --limit test-ibm-ubuntu2204_docker-x64-1 with Ansible 12, I get this error:

TASK [package-upgrade : include package manager tasks] **************************************************************************************************************************************
[ERROR]: Task failed: Finalization of task args for 'ansible.builtin.include_tasks' failed: Error while resolving value for '_raw_params': The filter plugin 'match_key' failed: startswith first arg must be str or a tuple of str, not _AnsibleLazyTemplateList

Task failed.
Origin: /Users/mzasso/git/nodejs/build/ansible/roles/package-upgrade/tasks/main.yml:7:5

5 #
6
7   - name: include package manager tasks
      ^ column 5

<<< caused by >>>

Finalization of task args for 'ansible.builtin.include_tasks' failed.
Origin: /Users/mzasso/git/nodejs/build/ansible/roles/package-upgrade/tasks/main.yml:9:5

7   - name: include package manager tasks
8 #    when: not os|startswith("zos")
9     include_tasks: "partials/{{ template }}.yml"
      ^ column 5

<<< caused by >>>

Error while resolving value for '_raw_params': The filter plugin 'match_key' failed: startswith first arg must be str or a tuple of str, not _AnsibleLazyTemplateList
Origin: /Users/mzasso/git/nodejs/build/ansible/roles/package-upgrade/tasks/main.yml:9:20

7   - name: include package manager tasks
8 #    when: not os|startswith("zos")
9     include_tasks: "partials/{{ template }}.yml"
                     ^ column 20

fatal: [test-ibm-ubuntu2204_docker-x64-1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Task failed: Finalization of task args for 'ansible.builtin.include_tasks' failed: Error while resolving value for '_raw_params': The filter plugin 'match_key' failed: startswith first arg must be str or a tuple of str, not _AnsibleLazyTemplateList"}

[targos]

https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/12.0.0/12/CHANGELOG-v12.md#ansible-core-1

Maybe this is caused by:

variables - The type system underlying Ansible's variable storage has been significantly overhauled and formalized. Attempts to store unsupported Python object types in variables now more consistently yields early warnings or errors.
variables - To support new Ansible features, many variable objects are now represented by subclasses of their respective native Python types. In most cases, they behave indistinguishably from their original types, but some Python libraries do not handle builtin object subclasses properly. Custom plugins that interact with such libraries may require changes to convert and pass the native types.

[richardlau]

😞

Error while resolving value for '_raw_params': The filter plugin 'match_key' failed: startswith first arg must be str or a tuple of str, not _AnsibleLazyTemplateList
Origin: /Users/mzasso/git/nodejs/build/ansible/roles/package-upgrade/tasks/main.yml:9:20

match_key is from our filters.py plugin:

build/ansible/plugins/filter/filters.py

Lines 30 to 44 in 5a1da01

	def match_key(value, dictionary, raise_error=True, feedback_name='os'):
	for key, val in dictionary.items():
	# yes, yes; we can lambda this but my old self in
	# two years will cry having to understand
	if type(val) is list:
	for list_key in val:
	if value.startswith(list_key):
	return key
	elif value.startswith(val):
	return key
	if raise_error:
	raise AnsibleFilterError(
	"Couldn\'t find %s in supported %s types" % (value, feedback_name)
	)
	return False

FWIW I found I had to pin Ansible (in a Python venv so I can switch between it and later Ansible) to a backlevel version to be able to run against the RHEL 8 servers:

build/ansible/README.md

Lines 10 to 13 in 5a1da01

	* Newer versions of Ansible are incompatible with some older operating systems in the inventory (e.g. RHEL 8). In those cases you will need to install an older version of Ansible, e.g. if using `pip`:
	```console
	pip install ansible-core==2.16.14 ansible==9.13
	```