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ansible-roles

Regroupment of all my Ansible roles with git submodule + Informations

Add this variables to you ansible.cfg roles_path= /path/to/ansible-roles

Role conventions

• Git repository name are : ansible-role-rolename
• task name
  • all task should have a name description
  • all task name should tourn in form of ensure the state is ok and not made the action
  • the task name don't have to include the role name
  • Examples :
    • Good task name: Ensure python and python-api are installed
    • Bad task name: python | installation of python
• tags
  • all tasks should be tag by the role name
  • other standart tags are : deploy,compilation,packages,configuration,service
  • tags sould set at the end of the task with this yaml form : tags: ["rolename","configuration"]
• OS
  • all tasks with OS or family OS dependency should have a when condition on ansible_os_family or ansible_distribution
    • especially for packages manager task
  • you don't have to support all OS if you can't test it
  • place OS specific task in different file if it's more than 1 task
• sudo
  • use sudo only when it's not for root user