Ansible Galaxy Command-Create Ansible Roles with Galaxy Commond-DecodingDevOps
Ansible Galaxy Command-Create Ansible Roles with Galaxy Commond-DecodingDevOps
ansible galaxy is a community website where we can share ansible roles and we can download ansible roles from it freely. You can find thousands of ansible roles in ansible galaxy website. https://galaxy.ansible.com/ To download ansible roles or To create a Ansible role structure, we use the ansible-galaxy command.
Search ansible roles with ansible galaxy command
You can search available ansible roles with ansible galaxy search command. It will list all the available roles in galaxy website in your shell.
Syntax:
ansible-galaxy search [role name]
in the below i searched for jenkins role it listed nearly 300 roles which are related to jenkins.
[root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ansible-galaxy search jenkins Found 310 roles matching your search: Name Description ---- ----------- AAROC.CODE-RADE-build-containers Describe your awesome application here. AAROC.CODE-RADE-container CODE-RADE build containers AAROC.CODE-RADE-jenkins-role Role to deploy and configure Jenkins acceleanu.jenkins Jenkins CI aem_design.jenkins Setup jenkins in your environment. AerisCloud.repos Manage CentOS yum and Debian apt repositories afonsog.k8s_jenkins your description ajeleznov.install-jenkins Installs the Jenkins automation server on Redhat Family Linux using RPM package file. akry.jenkins jenkins installer alban.andrieu.jenkins-swarm A role for installing jenkins-swarm alban.andrieu.logstash-settings A role for installing logstash configuration alban.andrieu.zap A role for installing zap alban.andrieu.zfs A role for installing zfs AlbanAndrieu.ansible-jenkins-slave-docker A role for creating docker image for jenkins slaves AlbanAndrieu.ansible-nabla A role for gathering nabla infrastructure other ansible role AlbanAndrieu.ansible-workstation A role for installing workstation AlbanAndrieu.jenkins_slave A role for installing jenkins-slave AlbanAndrieu.selenium A role for installing selenium .........
Find more information about role
after listing of all available roles if you want to know more information about the role like author of the role,github path, number of downloads of that role,..etc. You can use ansible-galaxy info command. ansible-galaxy info command will give you all the information about that particular role.
Ex:
[root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ansible-galaxy info aem_design.jenkins
Role: aem_design.jenkins
description: Setup jenkins in your environment.
active: True
commit: 57e3d202cc96644dfed23481fa184ae08b25f670
commit_message: update molecule test case for docker-jenkins
commit_url: https://api.github.com/repos/aem-design/ansible-role-jenkins/git/commits/57e3d202cc96644dfed23481fa184ae08b25f670
company: aem.design
created: 2019-09-09T00:38:05.529650Z
download_count: 4
forks_count: 0
github_branch: master
github_repo: ansible-role-jenkins
github_user: aem-design
id: 43197
imported: 2019-12-04T21:52:10.969468-05:00
is_valid: True
issue_tracker_url: https://github.com/aem-design/ansible-role-jenkins/issues
license: Apache 2.0
min_ansible_version: 2.4
modified: 2019-12-05T02:52:10.979473Z
open_issues_count: 1
path: (u'/root/.ansible/roles', u'/usr/share/ansible/roles', u'/etc/ansible/roles')
role_type: ANS
stargazers_count: 0
travis_status_url: https://travis-ci.org/aem-design/ansible-role-jenkins.svg?branch=master
Download roles from ansible galaxy website
Till now we have seen how to list available roles in galaxy website and how to find more information about the role. Now lets see how to download that role into your system or shell. To download ansible roles from ansible galaxy website we use ansible-galaxy install command.
Syntax:
ansible-galaxy install [rolename]
[root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ansible-galaxy install aem_design.jenkins - downloading role 'jenkins', owned by aem_design - downloading role from https://github.com/aem-design/ansible-role-jenkins/archive/master.tar.gz - extracting aem_design.jenkins to /root/.ansible/roles/aem_design.jenkins - aem_design.jenkins (master) was installed successfully [root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ls /root/.ansible/roles/ aem_design.jenkins [root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ls /root/.ansible/roles/aem_design.jenkins/ defaults meta molecule README.md tasks [root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]#
above you can see ansible role will be downloaded into /root/.ansible/roles directory
Create a role with ansible galaxy command
Using ansible-galaxy init command we can create the role. It will create a role template or directory structure for your role, that suitable for submission to Ansible Galaxy website.
Syntax:
ansible-galaxy init [rolename]
[root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ansible-galaxy init myrole - Role myrole was created successfully [root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ls anaconda-ks.cfg myrole [root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ls myrole/ defaults files handlers meta README.md tasks templates tests vars
Here above you can role is created with the name “myrole” and it has complete role directory structure.
List Dwonloade roles
To list installed/downloaded roles from ansible galaxy website we can use ansible-galaxy list command. it will list only installed/downloaded roles. It will not display any role you created manually or role that created with init command.
[root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ansible-galaxy list # /root/.ansible/roles - aem_design.jenkins, master # /usr/share/ansible/roles # /etc/ansible/roles [root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]#
Delete the role
To delete the installed/downloaded ansible role from yur system we can use ansible-galaxy remove command.
Syntax:
ansible-galaxy remove [role name]
[root@ip-172-31-23-64 ~]# ansible-galaxy remove aem_design.jenkins - successfully removed aem_design.jenkins
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