ansible-roles-ctl 1.0.1

Ansible roles management

Ansible roles management

The goal of this tool is to manage installation and upgrade of Ansible roles using git tags and branches.

This tool uses the requirements.yml configuration file used by Ansible Galaxy. The syntax is unchanged and the ansible-galaxy tool can be used by people not involved in playbooks development.

This tool assumes a role version follows semantic versioning and is labelled with a git tag of the form vX.Y or vX.Y.Z (examples: v1.0 or v2.3.1). In fact the v is optional but recommended for clarity.

Roles managed manually, bare, or in a bad shape are ignored (with proper warning).

Installation

You can install it using PyPI:

pip install ansible-roles-ctl

Or you can run it in-place since it has very few dependencies (you only need the ansible-roles-ctl script, version.py is only used in the build process).

You need the following dependencies:

• Ansible (probably starting from 2.7)
• GitPython (package 'python3-git' on Debian systems, or using pip)

Usage

Syntax is as follow:

ansible-roles-ctl [global options] [subcommand] [subcommand options]

You can use -h/--help option to list all available options at command and subcommand level, as well as all available subcommands.

Follows documentation about the various subcommands.

Status

ansible-roles-ctl status

This subcommand display a status report about all required roles.

You can limit output to a selection of roles:

ansible-roles-ctl status mailman3 httpd

The -c/--changelog option displays changelog entries if available.

Install

ansible-roles-ctl install

This subcommand install all roles listed in the requirements.

You can limit this action to a selection of roles:

ansible-roles-ctl install bind9 postfix

Update

ansible-roles-ctl update

This subcommand update all roles listed in the requirements to the latest version.

You can limit this action to a selection of roles:

ansible-roles-ctl update bind9 postfix

It is possible to update roles to a particular version and update the requirements (downgrade is possible):

ansible-roles-ctl update bind9=1.1

The -r/--req-update option regenerates the requirements file according to the requested updates. You need to check the result before commiting; in particular, invalid roles cannot be loaded properly and would thus be skipped (we hope this limitation to be lifted in a future version).