ansible-development-environment/roles/ara

ara

Install and configure ara on your system.

Example Playbook

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

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

  roles:
    - robertdebock.ara

The machine you are running this on, may need to be prepared, I use this playbook to ensure everything is in place to let the role work.

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

  roles:
    - robertdebock.bootstrap
    - robertdebock.buildtools
    - robertdebock.epel
    - 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 ara

# If you would like to update the packages that this role installs, set `ara_packages_state` to `latest`, otherwise use `default`.

# The ansible.cfg to modify.
ara_configuration_file: /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

# The user to run ara as. Typically root, but if you run playbooks under your username, ara saves data in your homedirectory. In that case change the ara_user to your username.
ara_user: root

# Extra options can be set using this structure.
# ara_configuration:
#   - option: port
#     value: 9191
#   - option: host
#     value: 0.0.0.0
#   - option: playbook_per_page
#     value: 10
#   - option: result_per_page
#     value: 25

Requirements

• Access to a repository containing packages, likely on the internet.
• A recent version of Ansible. (Tests run on the current, previous and next release of Ansible.)

The following roles can be installed to ensure all requirements are met, using ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml:

---
- robertdebock.bootstrap
- robertdebock.epel
- robertdebock.buildtools
- robertdebock.python_pip
- robertdebock.service

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	tag	allow_failures
debian	unstable	yes
debian	latest	no
centos	latest	no
fedora	latest	no
fedora	rawhide	yes
ubuntu	latest	no

This role has been tested on these Ansible versions:

• ansible>=2.8, <2.9
• ansible>=2.9
• git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git@devel

Exceptions

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

variation	reason
Alpine	Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement Django>=2.1.5
CentOS	No matching distribution found for Django>=2.1.5
amazonlinux:1	No package matching 'python3-pip'
amazonlinux	No module named pkg_resources

Testing

Unit tests are done on every commit, pull request, release and periodically.

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

Testing is done using Tox and Molecule:

Tox tests multiple ansible versions. Molecule tests multiple distributions.

To test using the defaults (any installed ansible version, namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest):

molecule test

# Or select a specific image:
image=ubuntu molecule test
# Or select a specific image and a specific tag:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox

Or you can test multiple versions of Ansible, and select images: Tox allows multiple versions of Ansible to be tested. To run the default (namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest) tests:

tox

# To run CentOS (namespace: `robertdebock`, tag: `latest`)
image="centos" tox
# Or customize more:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox

Modules

This role uses the following modules:

---
- import_role
- ini_file
- pip
- service
- systemd

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Robert de Bock