cookiecutter-ansible-role's Introduction

Cookiecutter Ansible Role

Cookie cutter recipe to easily create ansible roles. It infuses antigravity (or maybe not).

Features

Follows best practices.

Only Creates the necessary files and folders.

Blazing fast creation, forget about file creation and focus in actions.

Usage

cookiecutter https://github.com/iknite/cookiecutter-ansible-role.git

It begin to ask you configuration variables then you can enter tasks names, handlers names, and default variables.

Inside a Add <some> name i.e (<example>) you can go to next section by entering an empty string.

Example:

ROLE CONFIGURATION:
===================

Should it have tasks?  [Y/n] 
  Add task name i.e (Install packages) Add some task
  Add task name i.e (Install packages) another task 
  Add task name i.e (Install packages) 

Should it have handlers? [Y/n] 
  Add handler name i.e (Restart uwsgi) restart something
  Add handler name i.e (Restart uwsgi) alert someone
  Add handler name i.e (Restart uwsgi) 

It should contain default variables?:  [Y/n] 
  Add variable i.e (operator: : drunken_master) var: name
  Add variable i.e (operator: : drunken_master)      

Should it have meta info?  [Y/n] 
 - Should it have dependecies?  [Y/n] 
    Add dependecy i.e ({role: aptsupercow, var: 'value'}) {role: cool, version: latest}
    Add dependecy i.e ({role: aptsupercow, var: 'value'}) 

Should it have templates?  [Y/n] n

Should it have files?  [Y/n] y

This will generate this folders (Please note the absence of templates folder):

.
├── CONTRIBUTORS.txt
├── defaults
│   └── main.yml
├── files
├── handlers
│   └── main.yml
├── LICENSE.rst
├── meta
│   └── main.yml
├── README.rst
└── tasks
    └── main.yml