newrole

Creates a scaffolding for a new ansible role. It was created because the one that comes with Ansible (ansible-galaxy) leaves something to be desired.

Requirements

*nix OS - Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux, etc.. Optionally:

• Install bump2version for version bumping if you want to change the tags in a much easier way.
• Install virtualbox and vagrant to test the roles.

Role Variables

newrole_name: the_name_of_the_new_role newrole_dest: /the/path/to/create/the/new/role provider: default vagrant provider to use (default: virtualbox) prov_cpus: number of cpus to assign per box (default: 2) prov_ram: ram in KB to assing per box (default: 1024) prov_network_prefix: network prefix for the private network (default: 192.168.10.) boxes: dictionary of boxes with type and box name to provision and test, attributes are:

• type: osversion box: boxname

Dependencies

None

Setup

Step 1 Get the newrole folder onto your computer.

ansible-galaxy install gotansible.newrole 

or

ansible-galaxy install gotansible.newrole -p ~/src/pick_a_folder_to_put_it_in

Step 2 Make it easy to run newrole.

echo "alias newrole='/etc/ansible/roles/gotansible.newrole/newrole'" > ~/.profile
source ~/.profile

or (if you picked a specific folder)

echo "alias newrole='/path/to/the/folder/in/step/1/gotansible.newrole/newrole'" > ~/.profile
source ~/.profile

Step 3 Runit

newrole my_groovy_new_role_name

License

MIT

Author Information

Created by Franklin Wise in Santa Monica, CA. Forked by Nestor Manrique.