Ansible project skeleton

Skeleton for starting an Ansible project following "best-pratices".

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Running this example

You can run this example using the following command :

ansible-playbook -i inventory/staging playbooks/main.yml

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How to develop and test in a VM ?

Step 1 : Develop your Ansible playbooks as you would normally do

Step 2 : Run and test your playbooks using Vagrant and VirtualBox

Running for the first time (in the tests/roles/myrole directory) :

cd tests/roles/myrole ; 
vagrant up ;

Then, you will have to open two terminal on the same working directory. First terminal will be connecting to the virtual machine where you want to test, using SSH :

vagrant ssh ;
specs ; # will download Ansible

The second terminal will be synchronizing your playbooks into the virtual machine :

cd tests/roles/myrole ; 
vagrant rsync-auto

You are ready to go :-)

Executing your playbooks and tests (assertions) : In the terminal connected to the virtual machine via SSH. You can run the command :

specs -p # -p option avoid to download Ansible in order to execute tests faster 

Please find more documentation one the rolespec github page : https://github.com/nickjj/rolespec

Step 3 : Test your playbooks

Now that your playbooks look's ready, you can test it on a full environnement (no VM), where it will be executed. Check that everything is working as you wish, and go back to step 2 if you find some bugs.

Useful links

• [Ansible : Filters string] (https://github.com/lxhunter/ansible-filter-plugins)
• [Ansible : test driven developpement] (https://github.com/nickjj/rolespec)
• [Ansible : best pratices] (https://github.com/enginyoyen/ansible-best-practises%C2%A0)

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