The Cylc Ansible Role

An Ansible Role for the installation of the Cylc v7.x workflow engine.

Cylc is a workflow engine for cycling systems originally developed for operational environmental forecasting at NIWA by Dr Hilary Oliver. It is now an Open Source collaboration involving NIWA, Met Office, and others. It is available under the GPL v3 license.

Role variables

Available variables and default values (see defaults/main.yml): -

# The Cylc version to install, where: -
# 7.0.0 <= cylc_version < 8.0.0
cylc_version: 7.8.4

# Whether to install the optional GUI components
# like PyGTK, graphviz etc. Setting this variable
# only makes sense for a host that has a DISPLAY.
cylc_visualisation: no

Example playbook

---
- hosts: cylc
  tasks:
  - include_role:
      name: cylc.cylc
    vars:
      cylc_version: 7.8.2
      cylc_visualisation: yes