Ansible Role

Small commandline tool to help with ansible roles.

init: Initialize new ansible roles

docgen: Re-Generate README.md

Installation

$ gem install ansible-role

Usage

$ ansible-role
Commands:
  ansible-role docgen          # Generate README file
  ansible-role help [COMMAND]  # Describe available commands or one specific command
  ansible-role init            # Initialize new role

Init

Initialize a new role including:

Travis: for testing
Docker: for local testing
clog-cli: for generating CHANGELOG
.editorconfig: for consistent coding stlye

$ mkdir my-role
$ cd my-role
$ ansible-role init

To generate your role, please give me some info about:

• Author
  Name [franklin <[email protected]>]: franklin <[email protected]
  Company: We Are Interactive

• Role
  Name [my-role]: my-role
  Description [Best role ever!]: My best role ever
  Category [development]: demo
  Min ansible version [2.0]: 2.0

• GitHub
  User/Organization [franklin]: weareinteractive
  Repository [my-role]: ansible-my-role

       exist
      create  .clog.toml
      create  .editorconfig
      create  .gitignore
      create  .travis.yml
      create  CHANGELOG.md
      create  LICENSE
      create  Makefile
      create  defaults/main.yml
      create  files
      create  handlers/main.yml
      create  meta/main.yml
      create  meta/readme.yml
      create  tasks/config.yml
      create  tasks/install.yml
      create  tasks/main.yml
      create  tasks/manage.yml
      create  tasks/service.yml
      create  templates/etc/my-role.conf.j2
      create  tests/main.yml
      create  vars/main.yml
      create  README.md

See weareinteractive.unison for example.

Docgen

docgen reads meta data from meta/main.yml and a meta/readme.yml as well as code from your role files.

The meta/readme.yml might look like:

---
galaxy_name: weareinteractive.my-role
github_user: weareinteractive
github_name: ansible-my-role
badges: |
  [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/weareinteractive/ansible-my-role.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/weareinteractive/ansible-my-role)
  [![Galaxy](http://img.shields.io/badge/galaxy-weareinteractive.my-role-blue.svg)](https://galaxy.ansible.com/weareinteractive/my-role)
  [![GitHub Tags](https://img.shields.io/github/tag/weareinteractive/ansible-my-role.svg)](https://github.com/weareinteractive/ansible-my-role)
  [![GitHub Stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/weareinteractive/ansible-my-role.svg)](https://github.com/weareinteractive/ansible-my-role)
description: |
  > * installs my-role
  > * configures my-role
after_dependencies: |
  * dependency a
  * dependency b
after_handlers: |
  ## A new section after the handler section

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit atem ...
after_usage: |
  ## A new section after the usage section

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit atem ...

To re-generate the README.md file run:

$ mkdir my-role
$ cd my-role
$ ansble-docgen
conflict  README.md
Overwrite /path/to/my-role/README.md? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] y
   force  README.md