Ansible Role: Atom

An Ansible Role to install the Atom editor on Linux for Debian/Ubuntu or Red Hat/CentOS distributions.

There are ~18 (Crazy!) repositories with this name in GitHub already, but none of them I could find use package repositories so that Atom is easy to upgrade. With this role you can do updates with apt ugrade or yum update. I created this role for use in a development VM that might last several months or more.

Adhering to the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well and not re-inventing the wheel, this role doesn't manage Atom packages. See jgkim/ansible-role-atom for a role that installs packages.

Requirements

• ansible >= 2.0

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

atom_package: atom
atom_package_state: present

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: TonyApuzzo.ansible-role-atom
      become: yes

TODO

• Investigate a better way to install packages in case it is trivial to do it from ansible:command or similar
• Add support for SUSE, Fedora, and Arch if/when people ask for it.

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2018 by Tony Apuzzo as a derivative of ansible-role-docker by Jeff Geerling.