Opionated role for creating shortcuts for various ansible tasks

files

files:
  /etc/some/file: file
  /etc/some/file2: file2

Shorthand for copying files using copy

templates

templates:
  /etc/some/file: file
  /etc/some/file2: file2

Shorthand for templating files using template

containers

containers:
 - image: nginx
   env:
     DOMAIN: localhost.com
 - image: nginx
   docker_args: -p 8080:80

Arguments

Argument	Default	Description
image	[Required]	Docker image to run
service	base image name	The name of the systemd service
env		A dictionary of environment variables to pass through
docker_args		Additional arguments to the docker client e.g. -p 8080:8080
docker_opts		Additional options to the docker client e.g. -H unix:///tmp/var/run/docker.sock
args		Additional arguments to the container
volumes
ports

Example

---
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - moshloop.deploy
  vars:
    containers:
     - image: nginx
       service: nginx
       env:
         DOMAIN: localhost.com
     - image: nginx
       service: nginx2
       docker_args: -p 8080:80

mounts

mounts:
    "/mnt/point": "nfserver:/volume"

Shorthand for mounting volumes using fstab

commands

commands:
    - echo 123

Shorthand for executing shell commands

sysctl

sysctls:
  "vm.max_map_count": 262144

Shorthand for applying sysctl settings sysctl

group vars / tasks

Automatically imports vault and variables files

group tasks

Checks for and runs custom tasks for each group, by dynamically include a task list based on group names.

e.g. group_names == 'web,prod' will look for and run web.yml and prod.yml in the same directory as the playbook