Support OSX about ansible-role-tailscale HOT 5 CLOSED

This action only support Linux-based distros. Windows and OSX users should use the GUI installations or find another role.

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Latest stable macOS app: https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#macos Looks like we can unzip and move to the /Applications folder. I might do a fork and pull request. If you have looked at this, @artis3n, and have any thoughts, please share. :) Update: Sorry, I guess you've already decided that you want this to stay a Linux-only role. I may still fork to take advantage of the rest of your great work.

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Yeah I decided this role should focus on Linux because most of the configuration options are unavailable on OSX and Windows. As far as installing goes, it felt confusing to end users to call the OS supported but lock out most of the role's capabilities.

If you'd like Ansible to install Tailscale on OSX, you can unzip to the Applications folder with three tasks:

- name: Install Dependencies
  ansible.builtin.pip:
    name: github3.py
    state: present

- name: Get latest release
  # Note this module requires github3.py to be pip installed on the target
  community.general.github_release:
    user: tailscale
    repo: tailscale
    action: latest_release
  register: tailscale_version

- name: Extract Tailscale
  become: true
  ansible.builtin.unarchive:
    src: https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/Tailscale-{{ tailscale_version[1:] }}-macos.zip
    dest: /Applications/Tailscale.app
    remote_src: true

Wrote those off the top of my head, they may need some syntax tweaking.

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Although given the fact that native App Store apps are granted access to the Network Extension, it may be a better idea to use https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/tailscale/id1475387142 and https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/mas_module.html.

I do think it would be useful for a dedicated OSX role to support both installation methods, let the user do either!

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This would be a good topic for a discussion!

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