Ansible Role: awscli

Role to install awscli pip package on Debian/Ubuntu systems.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below (located in defaults/main.yml):

Variables List:

awscli_debian_pre_reqs:
  - python3
  - python3-pip
awscli_debian_pre_reqs_desired_state: present
pip_executable: pip3
awscli_app_debian_package: awscli
awscli_desired_state: present

Variables table:

Variable	Description
awscli_debian_pre_reqs	Packages required to install AWS CLI on Debian based systems. Using python3 as python2.x is EOL by end of 2020.
awscli_debian_pre_reqs_desired_state	Desired state for AWS CLI pre-requisite apps on Debian systems.
pip_executable	The executable to utilize for installing pip package of awscli.
awscli_app_debian_package	Name of awscli application package require to be installed i.e. awscli on Debian based systems.
awscli_desired_state	Desired state for AWS CLI.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

For default behaviour of role (i.e. installation of awscli package) in ansible playbooks.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - darkwizard242.awscli

For customizing behavior of role (i.e. installation of latest awscli package instead of ensure it is installed ) in ansible playbooks.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - darkwizard242.awscli
  vars:
    awscli_desired_state: latest

For customizing behavior of role (i.e. removal of awscli package) in ansible playbooks.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - darkwizard242.awscli
  vars:
    awscli_desired_state: absent

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created by Ali Muhammad, a DevOps/CloudOps Engineer who loves to learn and contribute to Open Source community.