Ansible role: vscode

This Ansible role is designed to install Visual Studio Code on Linux.

Requirements

No specific requirements are needed for this role, but the gpg tool must be installed on Debian-based systems to ensure the installation works. This tool is required for the package's post-install script.

To maintain idempotence (ensuring the role can be run multiple times without changing the result), this role downloads the GPG key into /etc/apt/keyrings/ without altering it on Debian-based systems. The key in this format can only be used by SecureApt version 1.4 or later (available since the Stretch version of Debian). More information can be found here.

Role Variables

• vscode_gpg_key_url: This is the URL for the Visual Studio Code GPG key: https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
• vscode_gpg_key_fingerprint: This is the fingerprint of the GPG key: BC528686B50D79E339D3721CEB3E94ADBE1229CF

These variables represent the URL and fingerprint for the Visual Studio Code GPG key.

• vscode_rpm_repository_url: This is the URL for the Visual Studio Code RPM repository: https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode
• vscode_apt_repository_url: This is the URL for the Visual Studio Code APT repository: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.asc] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main

These variables contain the repositories' URLs for both APT and RPM.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - role: egdoc.vscode

License

This role is licensed under GPL-2.0.

Author Information

This role was created by Egidio Docile.