Hey, Thanks for the reply... This is already in a role though, so would
calling a role from a role make sense or even work?
Thanks, C
On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 1:03:50 AM UTC-8, Borys Borysenko wrote:
>
> Hello Colin,
>
> The most simple way I guess is just to split your playbook with pre_tasks,
> roles and tasks sections. Something similar to:
>
> ---
> - hosts: all
> vars: []
> pre_tasks:
> - name: create group titled deploy
> group: name=deploy state=present
> - name: update apt-cache
> sudo: yes
> apt: update_cache=yes
> - name: create deploy user
> user: name=deploy group=deploy groups=sudo comment="Deployment User"
> home="/home/deploy" shell="/bin/bash"
> roles:
> - external-rbenv-role
> tasks:
> - name: Install the kitchen sink
> action: apt name={{item}} state=present update_cache=true
> sudo: yes
> with_items:
> - libqtwebkit-dev
> - node
> - lots of other tasks
> post_tasks: []
>
> Regards,
> Borys
>
> вторник, 29 декабря 2015 г., 2:08:37 UTC+2 пользователь Colin Byrne
> написал:
>>
>> So I used to have one fairly long main.yml playbook that was used to
>> perform a number of similar-tasks, one of which was to install rbenv, the
>> ruby management tool.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> - name: create group titled deploy
>>
>> group: name=deploy state=present
>>
>> - name: update apt-cache
>>
>> sudo: yes
>>
>> apt: update_cache=yes
>>
>> - name: create deploy user
>>
>> user: name=deploy group=deploy groups=sudo comment="Deployment User"
>> home="/home/deploy" shell="/bin/bash"
>>
>> - name: download rbenv
>>
>> ...
>>
>> - name: install rbenv
>>
>> ...
>>
>> - name: configure rbenv
>>
>> ...
>>
>> - name: Install the kitchen sink
>>
>> action: apt name={{item}} state=present update_cache=true
>>
>> sudo: yes
>>
>> with_items:
>>
>> - libqtwebkit-dev
>>
>> - node
>> - lots of other tasks
>> ...
>>
>> I found a nice galaxy role that better suits my needs for installing
>> rbenv, and I now want to include it to run in the same order as previously,
>> but I am confused as to how the documentation recommends to do this and the
>> syntax (seemingly with dependencies or includes?). It is hard to decipher
>> wether I will have to split it into three roles (the pre-rbenv, rbenv,
>> post-rbenv) which would really seem inconvenient as the three would always
>> be used together. I suspect this is a pretty common dilemma...
>>
>> Thank you all for the help so far, this forum has really made is a
>> pleasure learning ansible.
>>
>
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