epel_repo

Ansible Role: christiangda.epel_repo

The best way to install this role is using the command ansible-galaxy install christiangda.epel_repo, the Ansible Galaxy repository is christiangda.epel_repo

The repository code is https://github.com/christiangda/ansible-role-epel-repo

Requirements

This role work on RedHat, CentOS and Amazon Linux distributions

RedHat
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
CentOS
- 6
- 7
- 8
CentOS Stream
- 8
- 9
Rocky Linux
- 8
- 9
Oracle Linux
- 8
- 9
Amazon Linux
- 1
- 2

To see the compatibility matrix of Python vs. Ansible see the project Travis-CI build matrix

Role Variables

Variable	Default Value
epel_enable_extras_repos	false
epel_debug	false

More Details: See the file defaults/main.yaml

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

RedHat

- hosts: servers
  gather_facts: True
  roles:
    - role: christiangda.epel_repo
      vars:
        epel_enable_redhat_extras_repos: true

Redhat/CentOS 6/7/8

- hosts: servers
  gather_facts: True
  roles:
    - role: christiangda.epel_repo

Amazon Linux 1/2 (my-playbook.yml)

- hosts: all
    gather_facts: True
    become: true
    become_user: root
    become_method: sudo
    remote_user: ec2-user
    roles:
      - christiangda.epel_repo

Inventory file sample

[all]
10.14.x.y
10.14.v.z

[amazon-1]
10.14.x.y

[amazon-2]
10.14.v.z

ansible-playbook my-playbook.yml \
    --inventory inventory \
    --private-key [~/location of my key.pem] \
    --become \
    --become-user=ec2-user \
    --user ec2-user

Development / Contributing

This role is tested using Molecule and was developed using Python Virtual Environments

Also, we used to main git branch

master
develop

If you want to contribute to this project what you want to do is

Fork the project
Prepare your environment
Fix the problem in develop branch
Execute molecule test
Create a Pull Request to official project develop branch

References

Prepare your environment

Python 3

mkdir ansible-roles
cd ansible-roles/

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install pip --upgrade
pip install ansible
pip install molecule
pip install 'molecule[docker]'
pip install 'molecule[podman]'
pip install 'molecule[lint]'
pip install molecule-vagrant
pip install python-vagrant
pip install selinux
pip install docker
pip install pytest
pip install pytest-mock
pip install pylint
pip install rope
pip install autopep8
pip install yamllint
pip install flake8
pip install ansible-lint

Clone the role repository (From your fork) and create symbolic link

git clone https://github.com/<your github user>/ansible-role-epel-repo.git
ln -s ansible-role-epel-repo christiangda.epel_repo
cd christiangda.epel_repo

Execute the molecule test

Scenarios available:

molecule list

scenario default

Step by step

molecule create [--scenario-name default]
molecule converge [--scenario-name default]
molecule verify [--scenario-name default]
molecule destroy [--scenario-name default]

All in one