Ansible Role: IntelliJ JDKs

This role sets up Java Development Kits (JDKs) for the IntelliJ IDEA Integrated Development Environment (IDE) here.

Requirements

• Ansible version 2.9 or higher

• A Linux distribution:

  • Debian Family:

    • Ubuntu:
      • Bionic (18.04)
      • Focal (20.04)

  • RedHat Family:

    • Rocky Linux:
      • Version 8

  • Note: Other versions might work but are not tested.

Role Variables

These variables can change how this role works (default values are shown below):

# Directory for user-specific IntelliJ IDEA configurations (relative to home)
# Note: The `ansible_local.intellij.general.user_config_dir` fact comes from the gantsign.intellij role
intellij_jdks_intellij_user_config_dir: '{{ ansible_local.intellij.general.user_config_dir }}'

This role needs to be set up for each user. Users are configured like this:

users:
  - username: # Your Unix user name
    intellij_jdks:
      - name: # The JDK name to use
        home: # The path to the JDK installation directory
    # The name of the JDK to use as default for new projects.
    # Required if you specify `intellij_jdks`.
    # Must match one of the `intellij_jdks` names.
    intellij_jdks_default:

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.intellij_jdks
      users:
        - username: vagrant
          intellij_jdks:
            - name: '1.8'
              home: '/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64'
            - name: '1.7'
              home: '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64'
            - name: '1.6'
              home: '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64'
          intellij_jdks_default: '1.8'

Related Roles

You may find these roles useful:

• gantsign.intellij for installing and configuring the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.
• gantsign.intellij-plugins for conditionally installing IntelliJ IDEA IDE plugins.

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Development & Testing

This project uses Molecule to help with development and testing. The role is unit tested with Testinfra and pytest.

To develop or test, you need:

• Linux (e.g., Ubuntu)
• Docker
• Python (with python-pip)
• Ansible
• Molecule

Installing these can be complicated, so this project includes the Molecule Wrapper. It is a script that installs Molecule and its dependencies (except Linux) and runs Molecule with your commands.

To test this role using Molecule Wrapper, run this command from the project root:

./moleculew test

Note: Some dependencies might require sudo permission to install.

License

MIT License

Author Information

John Freeman

GantSign Ltd.
Company No. 06109112 (registered in England)