ARCHIVED

This role is archived. David maintains a much better collection to do the same thing.

ara

Install and configure ara on your system.

GitHub	GitLab	Quality	Downloads	Version

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/default/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.ara

The machine needs to be prepared. In CI this is done using molecule/default/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap
    - role: robertdebock.buildtools
    - role: robertdebock.epel
    - role: robertdebock.python_pip

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

The default values for the variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for ara

# The ansible.cfg to modify.
ara_configuration_file: /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

# The user to run ara as. Typically root, but if you run playbooks under your username, ara saves data in your homedirectory. In that case change the ara_user to your username.
ara_user: root

# This role tries to "find" python. If you are using a specific path to python,
# you can set `ara_callback_plugins`. For example:
# ara_python_plugins_path: /home/username/venv/site-packages/ara/plugins/callback

# Extra options can be set using this structure.
# ara_configuration:
#   - option: port
#     value: 9191
#   - option: host
#     value: "0.0.0.0"
#   - option: playbook_per_page
#     value: 10
#   - option: result_per_page
#     value: 25

Requirements

• pip packages listed in requirements.txt.

Status of used roles

The following roles are used to prepare a system. You can prepare your system in another way.

Requirement	GitHub	GitLab
robertdebock.bootstrap
robertdebock.buildtools
robertdebock.epel
robertdebock.python_pip
robertdebock.service

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

container	tags
el	8
debian	all
fedora	all
ubuntu	bionic

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.10, tests have been done to:

• The previous version.
• The current version.
• The development version.

Exceptions

Some roles can't run on a specific distribution or version. Here are some exceptions.

variation	reason
alpine	Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement Django>=2.1.5
centos:7	No matching distribution found for Django>=2.1.5
amazonlinux:1	No package matching 'python3-pip'
amazonlinux	No module named pkg_resources

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Robert de Bock

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