galaxy-role-skeleton

Description

galaxy-role-skeleton is used to quickly create new ansible roles.

Requirements

• ansible-galaxy command
• Python

Usage

Role Names

Roles long name

Used as the roles repository name in cases where you have a single role per repository.

ansible-role-myrole

Roles short name

Used when creating a new role using this project.:

myrole

Setup

Clone project fork

Clone your customised personal or business fork to your Ansible projects directory

mkdir ~/projects
cd ~/projects
git clone [email protected]:cjsteel/galaxy-role-skeleton.git

Create your role

Syntax example

ansible-galaxy init --role-skeleton=ALTERNATIVE_ROLE_SKELETON_PATH role-short-name

Real world usage examples:

To create a new role

mkdir -p ~/projects/your-ansible-project/roles
cd ~/projects/your-ansible-project/roles
ansible-galaxy init --role-skeleton=~/projects/galaxy-role-skeleton/skeleton role-short-name -vvv

To overwrite an existing role

cd ~/projects/your-ansible-project/roles
ansible-galaxy init --role-skeleton=~/projects/galaxy-role-skeleton/skeleton -f existing-role-short-name -vvv

Set up your default Molecule scenario

molecule init scenario -s default -d lxd -r role-short-name

Troubleshooting

Molecule

pytest bug: Fix for error"AttributeError: 'Config' object has no attribute 'cache'

• Possible bug with the 3.10.0 release #4304

touch molecule/default/pytest.ini" like this one.

[pytest]
addopts = -p no:cacheprovider -p no:stepwise

Author(s) and license

• Christopher Steel | e-mail

License: MIT