Hi Bryan and thanks for the reply.
The problem I'm trying to solve is collecting multiple jenkins plugins
across roles but only executing the installation of them once.
At the moment, I have to list and then install the plugins in each
individual <role>/tasks/main.yml whereas what I'd like to do is something
like this:
group_vars/server_type_1
jenkins_modules:
- git
- ansiicolor
group_vars/server_type_2
jenkins_modules:
- svn
- pipeline
group_vars/all
jenkins_modules:
- chuck-norris
and then have a handler or similar install the relevant plugins (for
example a host in server_type_1 group would have chuck-norris, git and
ansiicolor installed, whereas a host in server_type_2 would have
chuck-norris, svn and pipeline installed instead).
I hope this makes things a bit clearer.
Matt
On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:55:49 UTC, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have a number of clients for whom we manage systems using Ansible. I'm
> fairly new to Ansible however my background is heavy use of Chef and Puppet
> so I understand most of the concepts.
>
> In order to make our lives easier, we have a central "ansible" git repo
> containing generic roles. This is then cloned as a submodule into each
> client repo where we override variables and config files accordingly to
> make the "generic" roles from the master repo client specific.
>
> One of the roles that we have installs and configures Jenkins CI Server.
> We have a set of "base" jenkins plugins that we install as part of the
> Jenkins role, however for some clients we will want to install and
> configure additional plugins.
>
> Is there any way within Ansible that I can collect a list of these plugins
> from various roles (git, svn, capistrano etc.) and then have them installed
> by the Jenkins role?
>
> The current approach is to have a "command" task in each role to execute
> the jenkins-cli command to install the plugins which seems like a very
> un-DRY way of doing things.
>
> I'm reasonably happy with Python so I'm happy to write a module if this is
> what is required, however I'm hoping that this is a solved problem!
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>
> Matt
>
> P.S. FWIW, it looks like https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6674
> might solve this for me, but it's not been merged as far as I can tell.
>
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