Pre-downloading role about ansible-role-homebrew HOT 10 CLOSED

@elliotweiser so I can remove the step from my scripts, right?

from ansible-role-homebrew.

Works great, thanks!

from ansible-role-homebrew.

Tell Ansible via the ansible.cfg file where to look for installed roles:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_configuration.html#roles-path

Install your requirements to that directory:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml -p /path/to/git/repo/roles

Then commit the roles directory to your repository.

That said, I'm curious why you'd need to install the roles on multiple machines. You should only need to download the roles once onto the control node. It may not be feasible in your company, but with one control node, you should be able to manage multiple other machines if they are enumerated in the control node's inventory.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html

from ansible-role-homebrew.

@trusk89 - Indeed, as @elliotweiser says, for stability and performance it's often desirable to 'commit your dependencies'; see how Drupal VM does it here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm/tree/master/provisioning

For most of my 'actual money-earning production' playbooks, I add an ansible.cfg with the roles_path defined, then commit the roles to the repo.

from ansible-role-homebrew.

Yeah, I did that and it works pretty well. One thing i don't get yet (didn't have time to test before leaving work): if I have my roles already stored on my repo, do I need to run ansible-galaxy install requirements.yml? Or they are automatically searched for and found in the path I set in ansible.cfg?

Thanks for all the help guys!

from ansible-role-homebrew.

The ansible-galaxy command will search the paths enumerated in the roles_path variable defined in your ansible.cfg. Therefore, as long as the roles are committed somewhere in that list of paths, ansible-galaxy will not need to re-download them unless you force -f it.

from ansible-role-homebrew.

Go for it.

from ansible-role-homebrew.

Thanks again guys!

from ansible-role-homebrew.

No problem! Also, note that ansible-galaxy isn't a full fledged package manager (at least not yet), so when updating things, you might have to delete a package then install, or use --force to force install a newer version.

from ansible-role-homebrew.

It isn't, but what it is, is great! I managed to automate env setup for 3 machines: a jenkins master, a jenkins build slave and an iOS/Android development machine. It's great!

from ansible-role-homebrew.