Ansible Role: repositories

Description

This role manages software repositories on CentOS and Ubuntu systems. By default, it sets up the EPEL repository on CentOS and the Universe repository on Ubuntu.

Installation

Run the following command to install the role:

ansible-galaxy install arillso.repositories

Requirements

No special requirements.

Role Variables

repositories

The repositories variable is a list of repositories to add, with keys for Ubuntu or CentOS.

ubuntu

For Ubuntu, use parameters for the apt repository module. See: apt_repository.

You need to specify:

Option	Comments
name	The name of the source list
repo	The repository source string

centos

For CentOS, use parameters for the yum repository module and rpm key. See: yum_repository and rpm_key.

You need to specify:

Option	Comments
name	The name of the base URL
description	A description for the repository
baseurl	URL for the directory containing the yum repository's 'repodata' directory

You can also use metalink or mirrorlist instead of baseurl.

defaults

repositories:
  ubuntu:
    - name: 'ubuntu universe'
      repo: 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu {{ ansible_distribution_release | lower }} universe'
    - name: 'ubuntu universe'
      repo: 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu {{ ansible_distribution_release | lower }}-security universe'
    - name: 'ubuntu universe'
      repo: 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu {{ ansible_distribution_release | lower }}-updates universe'
  centos:
    - name: 'epel'
      description: 'EPEL YUM repo'
      baseurl: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$releasever/$basearch/
      key: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7

Dependencies

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Example Playbook

Here is an example of how to use this role in a playbook:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - arillso.repositories

Author

• Simon Bärlocher

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. For full license details, see the LICENSE file.

Copyright

(c) 2020, Arillso