ansible-development-environment/roles/ansible

ansible

Install and configure ansible on your system.

GitHub	GitLab	Quality	Downloads	Version

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/resources/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.ansible

The machine needs to be prepared in CI this is done using molecule/resources/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  become: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap
    - role: robertdebock.epel
    - role: robertdebock.buildtools
    - role: robertdebock.python_pip

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

These variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for ansible

ansible_configuration:
  - option: roles_path
    value: roles
  - option: retry_files_enabled
    value: "no"
  - option: inventory
    value: inventory
  - option: stdout_callback
    value: yaml
  - option: callback_whitelist
    value: profile_roles

Requirements

• pip packages listed in requirements.txt.

Status of requirements

The following roles are used to prepare a system. You may choose to prepare your system in another way, I have tested these roles as well.

Requirement	GitHub	GitLab
robertdebock.bootstrap
robertdebock.buildtools
robertdebock.epel
robertdebock.python_pip

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

container	tags
alpine	all
el	8
debian	buster, bullseye
fedora	all
opensuse	all
ubuntu	focal, bionic

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.10, tests have been done to:

• The previous version.
• The current version.
• The development version.

Exceptions

Some variarations of the build matrix do not work. These are the variations and reasons why the build won't work:

variation	reason
amazonlinux:1	No package matching 'python3-pip'

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Robert de Bock

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