Ansible Role: Environment Modules

This role downloads, compiles, and installs environment modules from source on Debian and Red Hat-based Linux systems. Environment modules let users easily adjust their environment using module files.

To install this role, use ansible-galaxy:

ansible-galaxy install jkglasbrenner.environment_modules

Requirements

No additional requirements.

Role Variables

Here are some variables you can use and their default values:

# URL for main miniconda download server
modules_mirror: "https://github.com/cea-hpc/modules/releases/download"

# Version of the modules
modules_version: 4.2.1

# Checksums for module versions
modules_checksums:
  modules-4.1.2.tar.gz: "sha256:d1f54f639d1946aa1d7ae8ae03752f8ac464a879c14bc35e63b6a87b8a0b7522"
  modules-4.1.3.tar.gz: "sha256:dab82c5bc20ccea284b042d6af4bd6eaba95f4eaadd495a75413115d33a3151f"
  modules-4.1.4.tar.gz: "sha256:c796ea6a03e22d63886ca9ec6b1bef821e8cb09f186bd007f63653e31e9cb595"
  modules-4.2.0.tar.gz: "sha256:d439dfa579a633108c4f06574ed9bc3b91b8610d2ce3a6eb803bf377d0284be7"
  modules-4.2.1.tar.gz: "sha256:c796ea6a03e22d63886ca9ec6b1bef821e8cb09f186bd007f63653e31e9cb595"

# Information about module source code
modules_name: "modules-{{ modules_version }}"
modules_src_tar_gz: "{{ modules_name }}.tar.gz"
modules_src_url: "{{ modules_mirror }}/v{{ modules_version }}/{{ modules_src_tar_gz }}"
modules_checksum: "{{ modules_checksums[modules_src_tar_gz] }}"

# Download timeout
modules_timeout_seconds: 300

# Command for building (use "make -j4" for faster builds)
modules_make_cmd: make

# Installation paths
modules_parent_dir: /usr/local
modules_etc_profile: /etc/profile.d
modules_dir: "{{ modules_parent_dir }}/Modules"

# Paths for initialization files
modules_init_profile: "{{ modules_dir }}/init/profile"
modules_init_bash: "{{ modules_dir }}/init/bash"
modules_init_modulerc: "{{ modules_dir }}/init/modulerc"
modules_init_use_own: "{{ modules_dir }}/init/use.own"

# Paths for module files
modules_modulefiles_dir: "{{ modules_dir }}/modulefiles"
modules_use_own_dir: privatemodules

# Example module files to remove
modules_example_modulefiles_to_remove: []

Specific variables for different distributions:

# For Debian-based systems
modules_package_dependencies:
  - autoconf
  - automake
  - autopoint
  - bash
  - build-essential
  - coreutils
  - dejagnu
  - grep
  - less
  - sed
  - tcl-dev

# For Red Hat-based systems: CentOS 7 and Fedora
modules_package_dependencies:
  - "@Development tools"
  - autoconf
  - automake
  - bash
  - dejagnu
  - gettext
  - grep
  - less
  - procps-ng
  - sed
  - tcl-devel

# For Red Hat-based systems: CentOS 6
modules_package_dependencies:
  - "@Development tools"
  - autoconf
  - automake
  - bash
  - dejagnu
  - gettext
  - grep
  - less
  - procps
  - sed
  - tcl-devel

Dependencies

No dependencies.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: jkglasbrenner.environment_modules
  vars:
    make: "make -j4"
    modules_use_own_dir: ".local/Modules"
    modules_example_modulefiles_to_remove:
      - dot
      - module-git
      - module-info
      - "{{ 'null' }}"

License

MIT