Role Name

git-based-deploy: An Ansible role to create git-based deployment of a static website.

The role is available on Ansible Galaxy: https://galaxy.ansible.com/wahidsadik/git-based-deploy/.

To add this role from Ansible Galaxy, run: ansible-galaxy install wahidsadik.git-based-deploy.

To add this from your Ansible requirements.yml, add this to the file:

src: wahidsadik.git-based-deploy

Requirements

The remote_user used run this role should be able change permission of directories and files usually owned by root. Hence, you will probably need to sudo to successfully run use this role. See examples for more details.

Role Variables

The role defines the following variables in defaults/main.yml:

www_root: /var/www
repo_root: /var/repo
www_user: deployer
www_group: www-data

Notes:

• www_user must belong to www_group group.
• www_user should not be root user for security reasons.

Users must pass the following parameters (i.e. variables):

• website. Values should be valid file/directory name on a Linux system.

Example values for website:

• example.com
• abc-def.org

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Example 1: Simplest example with minimum variable passing

- hosts: servers
  remote_user: root
  roles:
  - { role: wahidsadik.git-based-deploy, website: example.com }

Example 2: With sudo and minimum variable passing

- hosts: servers
  remote_user: deployer
  become: true
  become_method: sudo
  roles:
  - { role: wahidsadik.git-based-deploy, website: example.com }

Example 3: Overriding additional variables

- hosts: servers
  remote_user: deployer
  become: true
  become_method: sudo
  roles:
  - { role: wahidsadik.git-based-deploy, website: example.com,  www_user: myuser, www_group: www}

License

MIT

Author Information

Wahid Sadik

Repo: https://github.com/wahidsadik/git-based-deploy.