Ansible Role: vscode

Role to install (by default) Visual Studio Code on Debian/Ubuntu family and EL family systems. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below (located in defaults/main.yml):

Variables List:

vscode_app_name: code
vscode_desired_state: present
vscode_repo_desired_state: present

# For Debian/Ubuntu Family
vscode_debian_pre_reqs:
  - apt-transport-https
  - curl
  - ca-certificates
  - lsb-release
  - gnupg
vscode_debian_pre_reqs_desired_state: present
vscode_debian_gpg_key: https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
vscode_debian_repo: "deb [arch={{ ansible_architecture }}] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/{{ vscode_app_name }} stable main"
vscode_debian_repo_when_x86_64: "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/{{ vscode_app_name }} stable main"
vscode_debian_repo_filename: vscode

# For EL Family
vscode_el_gpg_key: https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
vscode_el_repo_name: code
vscode_el_repo_description: Visual Studio Code
vscode_el_repo: https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode
vscode_el_repo_filename: vscode
vscode_el_repo_gpgcheck: yes
vscode_el_repo_enabled: yes

Variables table:

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

For default behaviour of role (i.e. installation of vscode) in ansible playbooks.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - darkwizard242.vscode

For customizing behavior of role (i.e. installation of latest vscode) in ansible playbooks.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - darkwizard242.vscode
  vars:
    vscode_desired_state: latest

For customizing behavior of role (i.e. un-installation of vscode) in ansible playbooks.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - darkwizard242.vscode
  vars:
    vscode_desired_state: absent

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created by Ali Muhammad.