Ansible Role: template

A base template for Ansible Roles that builds correctly and can be imported on Ansible Galaxy.

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Ansible 2.x

Installation

Installing roles from Ansible Galaxy:

$ ansible-galaxy install username.rolename

You can specify a directory where you want the downloaded roles to be placed, this is very useful when you use this template as a starting point for creating new roles.

$ ansible-galaxy install username.rolename -p ~/ansible/roles/__template__

Role Variables

Testing on your local machine

$ ansible-playbook roles/__template__/tests/test.yml --extra-vars "rolename=roles/__template__" --syntax-check

Testing with Travis CI

$ ansible-playbook tests/test.yml -i tests/inventory --extra-vars "rolename=ansible-role-template" --syntax-check

Dependencies

Install all dependencies needed for this role.

$ cd ~/path/to/ansible/role
$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Required dependencies:

• none

Example Playbook

(content taken from test.yml)

- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: root
  roles:
  - "{{ rolename }}"

Role Development

The primary use case for this codebase is Role Development.

1. Clone this repository into your ansible-playbook environment.

    $ git clone https://github.com/terencewestphal/ansible-role-template.git roles/__template__
   

2. Make the appropriate changes to meta/main.yml.

   • author
   • company
   • platforms
   • galaxy_tags
   • dependencies

3. Add Files, Tasks, Vars, Templates etc to the role.

   • defaults
   • files
   • handlers
   • modules
   • plugins
   • tasks
   • templates
   • tests
   • vars

4. Update the README.md to reflect the changes you made.

5. Publish your new role.

   • Push to Github
   • Test with Travis CI
   • Publish in Ansible Galaxy

License

MIT

Author Information

• Author: Terence Westphal
• Company: 42 BV