geerlingguy/ansible-role-ansible

Ansible Role - Ansible

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Do not add repo if installing using pip

If installation is done using pip there's no need to mess arround with apt sources.

ansible-role-ansible/tasks/setup-Ubuntu.yml

Line 7 in 00ff01e

- name: Add ansible repository.

Thanks!

Won't install on Amazon Linux

Due to this bug

"python27-jmespath-0.9.2-1.12.amzn1.noarch conflicts python-jmespath <= 0.5.0-1.1.amzn1".

How this role could be working ?

To be honest, I'm new to Ansible itself.
Does it make sense that installation of Ansible is possible by ansible-playbook ?
As I understand, installation of Ansible is prerequisite for running any playbook.
Please correct me if I have wrong information.
Thanks in advance.

Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa not yet supported by Ansible's PPA

I was updating tests to work with 20.04, but it seems that it's not yet supported by Ansible's official PPA: ansible/ansible#69161

Tracking here; for now, people on Ubuntu 20.04 using this role should just use the pip install method instead of package.

Allow dependancies for pip installation

To install ansible via pip on fresh installs, it might needs somes dependancies (ex : gcc, python-devel, openssl-devel on RHEL)

Example in tasks.yml

- name: Install dependancies for pip installation.
  package:
    name: "{{ ansible_pip_dependancies }}"
    state: present

Invalid supported OS specification (the role is not working on Debian)

The role is said to support Debian, but it fails to install the ansible repository on Debian systems, like that:

TASK [ansible : Add ansible repository.] ***********************************
fatal: [host.example.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Invalid repository string: ppa:ansible/ansible"}

accordingly to the documentation: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/apt_repository_module.html

# On Ubuntu target: add nginx stable repository from PPA and install its signing key.
# On Debian target: adding PPA is not available, so it will fail immediately.
apt_repository: repo='ppa:nginx/stable'

Allow installation via Pip instead of system package manager

As the title says.

"The conditional check 'ansible_distribution_version < 9' failed"

I'm running Ansible 2.7.0 against a Debian Stretch server.

Ansible:

[user@ansible-host: /etc/ansible]$ ansible --version
ansible 2.7.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/user/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.7.0 (default, Sep 15 2018, 19:13:07) [GCC 8.2.1 20180831]

Playbook:

---
- hosts: "{{ server }}"
  become: true
  roles:
      - role: geerlingguy.ansible

The error I'm receiving:

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Set the default_release option for older Debian versions.] ********************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [cdc-s-ansibleci01]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'ansible_distribution_version < 9' failed. The error was: Unexpected templating type error occurred on ({% if ansible_distribution_version < 9 %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}): '<' not supported between instances of 'AnsibleUnsafeText' and 'int'[...]"}

I was able to resolve this by adding "| int" to ~/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.ansible/tasks/setup-Debian.yml:

-when: ansible_distribution_version < 9
+when: ansible_distribution_version | int < 9

I am still learning, so I do not know what causes this issue, nor if this is the proper way to fix this.

Add possibility to add extra arguments to pip install ansible

Hi,

Nice script, I would however like to have the possibility to give an extra argument to the pip install command. In my case I would like to be able to pass on "--user".

I have created a PR to enable this that I will commit shortly.

Comments?

docs: Pip Executable var needs to be set

Actual Behaviour

If using the example playbook

The Task fails:

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Install Ansible via Pip.] **************************************************************************
fatal: [examle_host]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to find any of  to use.  pip needs to be installed."}

Full run:

TASK [geerlingguy.pip : Ensure Pip is installed.] ******************************************************************************
ok: [examle_host]

TASK [geerlingguy.pip : Ensure pip_install_packages are installed.] ************************************************************
skipping: [examle_host]

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Set the package state based on how Ansible is installed.] ******************************************
ok: [examle_host]

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Set up Ansible on RedHat.] *************************************************************************
skipping: [examle_host]

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Set up Ansible on Fedora.] *************************************************************************
skipping: [examle_host]

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Set up Ansible on Ubuntu.] *************************************************************************
skipping: [examle_host]

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Set up Ansible on Debian.] *************************************************************************
skipping: [examle_host]

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Set up Ansible using Pip.] *************************************************************************
included: /home/[example_user]/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.ansible/tasks/setup-pip.yml for [example_host]

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Install Ansible via Pip.] **************************************************************************
fatal: [examle_host]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to find any of  to use.  pip needs to be installed."}

Solution

The ansible_pip_executable: pip3 needs to be set as in the CI build

Error on playbook for Ubuntu 20

Hey,
I'm trying to run this role and I get:

TASK [geerlingguy.ansible : Add ansible repository.] ****************************************************************************
fatal: [192.168.1.14]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "apt cache update failed"}

Options for ansible-lint and yamllint

Would it be a good idea to add options for ansible-lint and yamllint, or should those rather be separate roles?

Ansible Galaxy installation issue

Hi,

unfortunately, this role is not installable via Ansible Galaxy due to strange error: https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/1007. As you can see there's some weird issue with role name under Installation section: $ ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy..

The output of the installation process via ansible-galaxy:

andrzej@PC:~/workspace$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
- downloading role 'ansible', owned by geerlingguy
- sorry, geerlingguy.ansible was not found on galaxy.ansible.com.
- you can use --ignore-errors to skip failed roles.

Ansible not available in epel in RHEL7

It seems like ansible is not available in epel repo in rhel7
https://linuxacademy.com/community/posts/show/topic/21119-ansible-not-available-in-epel-repo-installed-on-rhel-7

Allow define umask

To install system wide, if we have defined different default umask, it might be usefull to add umask to the setup-pip.yml