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Leonard Saers
Leonard Saers

Reputation: 669

Specify version of role in Ansible playbook

When downloading roles it's possible to specify roles. One of several ways would be with the following requirements.yml file:

---
- src: https://github.com/jdauphant/ansible-role-ssl-certs
  version: v1.5.2

This role could then be downloaded with the following command:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

How do you then specify which version of a role to use in an Ansible playbook?

  roles:
    - jdauphant.ssl-certs

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7362

Answers (1)

techraf
techraf

Reputation: 68459

There is no option to save different versions of a playbook under the same name and then to specify which version to run in a playbook.

You can:

  • "bind" a particular role version to the playbook by downloading out to the roles subdirectory of the project directory (the one containing the playbook). Ansible will then use this version before trying roles faced in the system roles directory.

    Add path to the requirements.yml:

    - src: https://github.com/jdauphant/ansible-role-ssl-certs
  version: v1.5.2
  path: roles/

  • save different versions under different names (i.e. in different directories) system-wide:

    - src: https://github.com/jdauphant/ansible-role-ssl-certs
  version: v1.5.2
  name: jdauphant.ssl-certs-1.5.2

    And reference a particular name:

    roles:
   - jdauphant.ssl-certs-1.5.2

Upvotes: 5

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