Ansible generator

This Ansible project provides two playbooks to create Ansible infrastructure for roles or projects with TDD infrastructure integrated. It can also be used to add or update the TDD infrastucture for an existing role.

• role.yml: create a role boilerplate
• project.yml: create a project boilerplate

role.yml

Playbook variables

This playbook requires two variables from the user which must be set using the ansible-playbook argument -e (--extra-vars). These are

• role_name: Name of the role without prefix (string, default: <empty>, mandatory)
• role_path: Base path of the role fed to --init-path from ansible-galaxy init (string, default: <empty>, mandatory)
• role_prefix: Directory name prefix for the role (string, choices ['ansible', 'silpion', 'infra', 'pronto'], default: ansible)
• role_manage_with_git: Whether to manage the created role with Git (boolean, default: true)
• force: Whether to force override files (boolean, default: false)

ansible-playbook

ansible-playbook -i inventory -e role_name=heka -e role_path=$HOME/work/git/ansible-roles role.yml

project.yml

Playbook variables

This playbook requires two variables from the user which must be set using the ansible-playbook argument -e (--extra-vars). These are

• project_name: Name of the project (string, default: <empty>, mandatory)
• project_path: Base path of the project (string, default: <empty>, mandatory)
• project_manage_with_git: Whether to manage the created project with Git (boolean, default: true)
• force: Whether to force override files (boolean, default: false)

ansible-playbook

ansible-playbook -e project_name=testproject -e project_path=$HOME/work/git/projects project.yml