I'm working on a small Ansible project that's a little outside its primary
use-case. I'm automating the generation of new web projects in a Mac OS X
dev environment. There are two objectives:
1.) Install all development tools on the local machine
2.) Compose various projects based on small component roles/tasks
As a simple example, if you run the main playbook, it will prompt you for a
project folder, install Sublime Text, NodeJS, etc., and set up all the
basic files needed to begin working on a new project. Here's a subset of my
project folder:
ansible-generator
|- main.yml <-- Main playbook
|- apps
|- nodejs
|- tasks,vars,defaults,etc.
|- sublime
|- scaffolds
|- git
|- node
|- vagrant
|- install
|- dmg.yml
Everything under both apps and scaffolds are roles. 'apps' install local
dev tools, and 'scaffolds' uses templates to set up and modify new project
files (package.json, Vagrantfile, .gitignore, etc.)
I have a couple questions:
1.) Could this entire project be turned in to a role itself and be
distributed on Ansible Galaxy, given its different project layout and
different use-case? Since this is a project built using lots of small
sub-roles, how could I run all those dependent roles from tasks/main.yml?
2.) The roles in the /apps folder need to reference tasks under the
/install folder. Right now I have to use relative paths like
"../../../dmg.yml". I'd rather set up a variable further up and just use
"{{ installers }}/dmg.yml", but without just setting this variable to
"../../.." What's the best way to get the absolute path to the root of this
project? The playbook_dir variable always returns "."
3.) Any other thoughts on organizing my project? Is it reasonable to have
roles in both /apps and /scaffolds or does this seem unwieldy compared to
putting everything under a /roles folder?
Thanks! If you'd like to take a closer look at my project you can find it
here: https://github.com/rvangundy/ansible-generator
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