release_assets

Downloads all assets for a tagged release from a given repository.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below (All variables are required):

github_auth_token: A Github Personal Access Token.

Note: Be sure not to include github_auth_token directly in your playbooks! Use ansible-vault or another secure method of storage to inject it in at runtime!

release_tag: The tag of the release from which to download the assets.

github_repo_name: The name of the repository.

github_repo_owner: The user or organization that owns the repository.

assets_path: Path where the assets should be downloaded. If this does not exist, it will be created. Will download to ~/ by default.

assets_owner: User account that will be set as owner of the assets_path.

Example Playbook

Note: github_auth_token is provided here as an example only. As mentioned above, this should be stored securely in ansible-vault or another secure storage.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: unstablereality.release_assets,
         github_auth_token: "abcde12345",
         release_tag: "v1.2.3",
         github_repo_name: "my-first-repo",
         github_repo_owner: "unstablereality",
         assets_path: "~/my-first-project/assets/"
         assets_owner: "unstablereality" }

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2020 by Daniel Soskel