Ansible Role: Go

An Ansible Role that installs Go (the language) on Linux, Windows and Mac.

Requirements

N/A

Role Variables

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

go_version: "1.17"
go_platform: linux
go_arch: amd64
go_ext: tar.gz

Version, platform, architecture and file extension to use when downloading Go.

go_tarball: go{{ go_version }}.{{ go_platform }}-{{ go_arch }}.{{ go_ext }}
go_download_url: https://dl.google.com/go/{{ go_tarball }}

On Windows machines, you can also set the following variables:

go_install_path: "C:\Program Files"

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: myserver
  roles:
    - { role: mdelapenya.go }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2022 as inspiration of Jeff Geerling's, adding support for Mac and Windows.