Ansible Role: Template

This is template, that is used to create roles for wayofdev project.

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🗂 Table of Contents

• Directory Tree for Project
• IDE Support
• Requirements
• Role Variables
  • Structure
• Example Playbook
• Development
• Testing
  • on localhost
  • over SSH
• Dependencies
  • for all
  • only macOS
  • only Linux
• Compatibility
• License
• Author Information
• Credits and Resources
• Contributors

🌳 Directory Tree for Project

Repository uses default structure, sugested by Ansible Documentation

├── 📄 Makefile
├── 📄 README.md
├── 🗂 assets
├── 🗂 contrib
│   └── poetry-bin
├── 🗂 defaults
│   └── 📄 main.yml
├── 🗂 files
├── 🗂 handlers
│   └── 📄 main.yml
├── 🗂 meta
│   └── 📄 main.yml
├── 🗂 molecule
│   ├── 🗂 _partials
│   │   ├── 🗂 playbooks
│   │   │   ├── 📄 converge.yml
│   │   │   ├── 🗂 defaults
│   │   │   └── 📄 verify.yml
│   │   ├── 📄 ssh_config
│   │   ├── 🗂 tasks
│   │   │   └── 📄 setup.yml
│   │   └── 🗂 vars
│   │       └── 📄 main.yml
│   ├── 🗂 default
│   │   └── 📄 molecule.yml
│   ├── 🗂 default-macos-on-localhost
│   │   └── 📄 molecule.yml
│   └── 🗂 default-macos-over-ssh
│       └── 📄 molecule.yml
├── 📄 pyproject.toml
├── 📄 requirements.yml
├── 🗂 tasks
│   └── 📄 main.yml
├── 🗂 templates
└── 🗂 vars
    └── 📄 main.yml

👨‍💻 IDE Support

Jetbrains products has great ansible language support together with OrchidE plugin.

⚠️ Notice: For ansible language support and autocompletion with OrchidE following additional File Type Patterns should be added.

Open Preferences → Languages & Frameworks → OrchidE → File Type Patterns:

Ansible Type	Regex Pattern	Pattern Type
RoleTask	.*/tasks/.*\.ya?ml	Include
RoleTask	.*/handlers/.*\.ya?ml	Include
Variable	.*/tests/defaults/.*\.ya?ml	Include
Variable	.*/defaults/.*\.ya?ml	Include
Variable	.*/meta/.*\.ya?ml	Include
Variable	.*/vars/.*\.ya?ml	Include

📑 Requirements

• Up-to-date version of ansible. During maintenance/development, we stick to ansible versions and will use new features if they are available (and update meta/main.yml for the minimum version).
• Compatible OS. See compatibility table.
• Role has dependencies on third-party roles on different operating systems. See requirements.yml and dependencies section.

🔧 Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with example values (see defaults/main.yml). Additional variables are stored in vars/main.yml.

→ Structure

---

tpl_key: value

📗 Example Playbook

---

- hosts: all
  connection: local

  vars:
    tpl_key: value

  roles:
    - wayofdev.homebrew
    - wayofdev.tpl

⚙️ Development

To install dependencies and start development you can check contents of our Makefile

Install poetry using poetry-bin and all dev python dependencies:

$ make install

Install only python dependencies, assuming that you already have poetry:

$ make install-deps

Install all git hooks:

$ make hooks

Lint all role files:

$ make lint

🧪 Testing

You can check Makefile to get full list of commands for remote and local testing. For local testing you can use these comands to test whole role or separate tasks:

→ on localhost

⚠️ Notice: By defaut all tests are ran against your local machine!

# run molecule tests on localhost
$ poetry run molecule test --scenario-name default-macos-on-localhost -- -vvv

# or with make command
$ make m-local

# choose which tags will be included
$ export TASK_TAGS="tpl-install,tpl-update"; make m-local

# runs molecule with docker driver
$ poetry run molecule test --scenario-name default -- -vvv

# or with make file
$ make m-linux

→ over SSH

# run molecule scenarios against remote machines over SSH
# this will need VM setup and configuration
$ poetry run molecule test --scenario-name default-macos-over-ssh -- -vvv

$ make m-remote

# tags also can be passed
$ export TASK_TAGS="tpl-install,tpl-update"
$ make m-remote

📦 Dependencies

Installation handled by Makefile and requirments are defined in requirements.yml

→ for all

• ansible.community.general

→ only macOS

• elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools
• wayofdev.homebrew

→ only Linux

• geerlingguy.git

🧩 Compatibility

This role has been tested on these systems:

system / container	tag
macos	monterey
macos	big-sur
ubuntu	jammy
ubuntu	focal
debian	bullseye
debian	buster
fedora	36
fedora	35
centos	8
centos	7

🤝 License

🙆🏼‍♂️ Author Information

This role was created in 2022 by lotyp / wayofdev.

🧱 Credits and Resources

Inspired by:

• Some resources goes here if needed...

🫡 Contributors