Ansible Role: autokey

This is an Ansible role to install the autokey desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.

I prefer to pass the variables "into" the role from the playbook versus by including variable files. This is because I hope to make the role usable by other projects/roles. I don't know if this logic makes sense or not, but I am essentially attempting to remove the variables from the role itself.

This utility does not currently have a flatpak.

Overview

At a very high level, this role will:

• install the package from a repository
• [optional] if a user and git repo link is provided, attempt to copy down the repository for the user

I am sure that it is possible to use this utility on other OSes, but I lost my patience in trying to get it to work, so I have only tested it on Fedora:

• fedora27
• fedora28
• fedora29

The testing of this role is very specific to the role I've set up in molecule, but I think I'm ok with that.

Important Notes

• If a git repository is specified, it should be able to be accessed by the role (either by a public repo or already having SSH keys populated)

Requirements

Any package or additional repository requirements will be addressed in the role.

Role Variables

All of these variables should be considered optional however, be aware that sanity checking is minimal (if at all):

• users ideally you could configure autokey differently per user, and this nested list of users allows for that
  • username
    • this is the username on the OS NOTE: this role will not create the user!
  • repo
    • this is a git repository containing autokey templates. NOTE: this must be accessible without input

Example Playbook

Playbook with various options specified:

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  roles:
    - role: ansible-role-autokey
      users:
        - username: test_usr1
          repo: https://github.com/public/autokey.git

Inclusion

I envision this role being included in a larger project through the use of a requirements.yml file. So here is an example of what you would need in your file:

# get the autokey role from github
- src: https://github.com/thisdwhitley/ansible-role-autokey.git
  scm: git
  name: autokey

Have the above in a requirements.yml file for your project would then allow you to "install" it (prior to use in some sort of setup script?) with:

ansible-galaxy install -p ./roles -r requirements.yml

Testing

I am relying heavily on the work by Jeff Geerling in using molecule for testing this role. I have, however, modified the tests to make them specific to what I am attempting to accomplish but this could still use some work.

Please review those files, but here is a list of OSes currently being tested (using geerlingguy's container images):

• fedora27
• fedora28
• fedora29

To-do

• N/A

References

• How I test Ansible configuration on 7 different OSes with Docker

License

All parts of this project are made available under the terms of the MIT License.