We use AAP to deploy roles. The roles are in Git. I now have 2 roles that need to deploy the same files and templates, and of course I don’t want to keep 2 versions in Git. How could I solve that?

  • @mea_rah
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    21 year ago

    Is it possible that the files and templates could (should?) be part of separate role that you perhaps pull in as dependency?

    The other pattern I saw out there was that the file/template wasn’t part of the roles, but was instead provided by playbook that is using the roles. So file was in repository with playbook and template/file path was passed to role as parameter.

  • melvinkitnick
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    1 year ago

    As an alternative to what @mea_rah proposed, you can also push your files in a git repository that you can clone/pull on your remote hosts (or locally, then copied / templated out, if needed) from a separate task, which can be in or out (via include_tasks or import_tasks modules) of your roles. Or if all target hosts have access to a shared storage, you can directly copy files from there, depending on your needs.

    I still think having your files and deploy task on a separate role used as a dependency for your other roles is the way to go, though I’d need more context to give you a more appropriate answer.

  • @vegetaaaaaaa
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    1 year ago

    Symlinks are the simplest solution (just checked, it works)

    $ tree test-role*
    test-role1
    ├── tasks
    │  └── main.yml
    └── templates
        └── template1.j2
    test-role2
    ├── tasks
    │ └── main.yml
    └── templates
        └── template1.j2 -> ../../test-role1/templates/template1.j2
    
    $  cat test-role1/tasks/main.yml 
    - name: copy template
      tags: test-role1
      become: yes
      template:
        src: template1.j2
        dest: /root/template1
    
    $ cat test-role2/tasks/main.yml 
    - name: copy template
      tags: test-role2
      become: yes
      template:
        src: template1.j2
        dest: /root/template1
    
    $ ansible-playbook playbook.yml --diff --check --tags test-role2
    ...
    TASK [test-role2 : copy template] *****************
    --- before
    +++ after: /home/deploy/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-143602q8imzfz/tmp8g6dn_h1/template1.j2
    @@ -0,0 +1 @@
    +this is a template