visual-studio-code-extensions

Ansible Role: Visual Studio Code Extensions

Role to install extensions for the Visual Studio Code IDE / text editor.

Requirements

Ansible Core >= 2.12
OS
- Linux
  - Debian Family
    - Ubuntu
      - Focal (20.04)
      - Jammy (22.04)
  - RedHat Family
    - Rocky Linux
      - 8
    - Fedora
      - 35
  - SUSE Family
    - openSUSE
      - 15.3
  - Note: other versions are likely to work but have not been tested.
- macOS
  - Consider macOS support experimental as this time as it's not included in the automated tests.

Role Variables

The following variables will change the behavior of this role (default values are shown below):

# The VS Code build variant:
#   stable   - https://code.visualstudio.com
#   insiders - https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/
#   oss      - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code
#              Caution: since Microsoft doesn't distribute binaries for code-oss
#              this role doesn't include tests for code-oss.
#              Note: VSCodium is not presently supported by this role.
visual_studio_code_extensions_build: stable

# Users to install extensions for
users: []

Users are configured as follows:

users:
  - username: # Unix user name
    # Extensions to be installed if not already present
    visual_studio_code_extensions:
      - # extension 1
      - # extension 2
    # Extensions to be uninstalled if not already absent
    visual_studio_code_extensions_absent:
      - # extension 3

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.visual-studio-code-extensions
      users:
        - username: vagrant
          visual_studio_code_extensions:
            - streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
            - wholroyd.jinja
            - ms-python.python
          visual_studio_code_extensions_absent:
            - seanmcbreen.Spell