Ansible Role: Global Composer Packages

This role installs Composer packages that need to be available system-wide.

Requirements

Make sure that Composer is installed and functioning.

Role Variables

Here are the available variables along with their default values (check defaults/main.yml):

• Composer executable filename:

composer_filename: composer

Composer installs packages globally for the user that's running it (usually root). If you want to install packages for a different user, set this variable. By default, it uses the system's ansible_user_id.

composer_username: ""

• List of global packages to install: For each package you can specify:

  • name: The package's name.
  • version: (optional) The package's version. Defaults to "@stable".

composer_global_packages: []

Example (remember to remove the square brackets):

composer_global_packages:
  - name: phpunit/phpunit
    version: "4.7.x"

Dependencies

T2L.composer

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - T2L.composer-global-packages

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2015 by Roman Paska.