gantsign.visual-studio-code-extensions

Ansible Role: Visual Studio Code Extensions

This role helps you install extensions for the Visual Studio Code integrated development environment (IDE) or text editor.

Requirements

Ansible Core version 2.12 or higher.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Linux
  - Debian Family
    - Ubuntu:
      - Focal (20.04)
      - Jammy (22.04)
  - RedHat Family
    - Rocky Linux:
      - 8
    - Fedora:
      - 35
  - SUSE Family
    - openSUSE:
      - 15.3
  - Note: Other versions might work but haven’t been tested.
- macOS
  - Support for macOS is experimental and not part of automated tests yet.

Role Variables

There are several variables that can change how this role works (default values are displayed below):

# The VS Code version you want to use:
#   stable   - https://code.visualstudio.com
#   insiders - https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/
#   oss      - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code
#              Note: This role does not test code-oss binaries since Microsoft does not provide those.
#              VSCodium is not supported by this role right now.
visual_studio_code_extensions_build: stable

# Specify the users to install extensions for
users: []

Users are set up like this:

users:
  - username: # Name of the Unix user
    # Extensions to install if they are not already present
    visual_studio_code_extensions:
      - # extension 1
      - # extension 2
    # Extensions to uninstall if they are present
    visual_studio_code_extensions_absent:
      - # extension 3

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.visual-studio-code-extensions
      users:
        - username: vagrant
          visual_studio_code_extensions:
            - streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
            - wholroyd.jinja
            - ms-python.python
          visual_studio_code_extensions_absent:
            - seanmcbreen.Spell