Ansible Role: Chromium

Ansible role that installs Ungoogled Chromium on Linux.

Features

• ✔️ Installing Ungoogled Chromium
• ✔️ You can defined which version to install (by changing the URL)
• ✔️ Set up flags
• ✔️ Tested with Molecule Verify

Supported Platforms

• ✔️ Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
• ✔️ Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)
• ✔️ CentOS 7
• ✔️ CentOS 8

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default Value
chromium_archive_url	URL of Ungoogled Chromium archive	link to Chromium 89
chromium_archive_sha1	SHA1 of the archive	SHA1 for the above package
chromium_allow_root	Should root be allowed to run Chromium? Sets no-sandbox flag.	true
chromium_disable_gpu	Should disable GPU? Sets disable-gpu flag.	true
chromium_disable_web_security	Should disable web security? Dangerous, but may be useful in some special dev cases. Sets disable-web-security flag.	false
chromium_ignore_certificate_errors	Should ignore certificate errors? Sets ignore-certificate-errors flag.	false
chromium_custom_flags	List of other flags to set. Flags mustn't be with -- prefix!	[]

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

1. The simplest one

   ---
   - hosts: all
     roles:
       - marverix.chromium
   

2. Install and allow root to run Chromium

   ---
   - hosts: all
     roles:
       - role: marverix.chromium
         vars:
           chromium_allow_root: true

3. Install, disable-web-security and set other custom flags

   ---
   - hosts: all
     roles:
       - role: marverix.chromium
         vars:
           chromium_disable_web_security: true
           chromium_custom_flags:
             - enable-experimental-accessibility-features
             - incognito

   BTW: Here is some good list of flags https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

License

ISC