williamyeh.nodejs for Ansible Galaxy

Summary

Role name in Ansible Galaxy: williamyeh.nodejs

This Ansible role has the following features for Node.js:

• Install specific version of Node.js (io.js is only supported under Debian/Ubuntu).

Role Variables

Mandatory variables

None.

Optional variables

Pick one version to install:

# Node.js version; e.g., "5", "4.0", "0.12", "0.12.7"
# Both numeric and string forms are ok.
nodejs_version


# io.js version; e.g., "3.3"
# NOTE: only available under Debian/Ubuntu.
iojs_version

If neither nodejs_version nor iojs_version is defined, nodejs_version is defined automatically by tasks/set-role-variables.yml according to defaults/main.yml settings:

• nodejs_default_in_apt for Debian/Ubuntu.
• nodejs_default_in_yum for CentOS.

Other user-configurable defaults:

# install tools for compiling native addons from npm?
nodejs_compile: True

Usage

Step 1: add role

Add role name williamyeh.nodejs to your playbook file.

Step 2: add variables

Set vars in your playbook file.

Simple example:

---
# file: simple-playbook.yml

- hosts: all
  become: True

  roles:
    - williamyeh.nodejs

  vars:
    nodejs_version: 4.0

Dependencies

None.

License

Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

History

• 1.0 : Use Ansible 2.0 syntax; support up to Node.js 5.x.

• Initial commit (2015-05-08): From now on, the role installs Node.js from NodeSource binary distributions.

Older versions are based on NVM:

• Rewritten from my pre-Galaxy version server-config-template and Galaxy version ansible-nvm-nodejs.

• During refactoring, some roles on Ansible Galaxy also inspired me:

  • leonidas.nvm forks, especially ahmednuaman.nvm-ahmed and then g-div/ansible-nvm