lyz-code / ansible-generic-program-install

generic_program_install

Base rol to install programs

Requirements

None

Role Variables

• remove_git: Boolean to remove the .git directory (Default: False)

• local_fetch: Boolean to fetch the configurations in the machine running ansible instead of in the target server (Default: False)

• install : Dictionary with the information of the program to install

  • packages : List of packages to install with the package manager
  • pip_packages : List of pip packages to install
  • pip3_packages : List of pip3 packages to install

• config: Dictionary with the information of the configuration

  • directory: Base directory to perform the clone of the configuration directory, for example: ~/.rcfiles.
  • git_repo: Url to the git group of repositories of your dotfiles, for example: https://git.myrepo.com/rcfiles.
  • packages: List of packages to configure

Imagine that we've set

config:
  directory: ~/.rcfiles
  git_repo: https://git.myrepo.com/rcfiles
  packages:
    - package_1
    - package_2

The configuration part will clone https://git.myrepo.com/rcfiles/package_1 and https://git.myrepo.com/rcfiles/package_2 into ~/.rcfiles/package_1 and ~/.rcfiles/package_2.

It assumes that in each of those repositories you have the same structure that you'd have on your home directory, so for example

$ tree -a ~/.rcfiles/package_1
├── .local
│   └── share
│       └── package_1_dir
└── .package1_rc

Example playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - generic_program_install

Testing

To test the role you need molecule.

molecule test --all

There are two test cases:

• default: Tests normal usage with full features
• no_config: Tests the case where no configuration is done

Todo

• Refactor to avoid duplicated code, keeping in mind the ~/.config and /.local/share cases

License

GPLv2

Author Information

Lyz ([email protected])