Ansible Role: serdigital64.application.app_keepassxc

Purpose

Manage provisioning of the KeePassXC application.

Supported features in the current version:

  • Deploy application. Packages are defined in the variable app_keepassxc_profiles.
  • Configure application:
    • Deploy default user configuration

The app_keepassxc Ansible-Role is part of the A:Platform64 project and is available in the application Ansible-Collection.

Usage

The following example is an Ansible Playbook that includes all the supported features:

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---
- name: "Application / KeePassXC / Usage example"
  hosts: "localhost"
  gather_facts: true

  tasks:
    - name: "Example: Install KeePassXC"
      vars:
        app_keepassxc:
          resolve_prereq: true
          deploy: true
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: "serdigital64.application.app_keepassxc"
...

The playbook can be run by executing:

# Set ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS to the default location. Change as needed.
ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS="${HOME}/.ansible/collections"
ansible-playbook "${ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS}/ansible_collections/serdigital64/application/playbooks/app_keepassxc.yml"

Role Parameters

Actions

  • Use action-parameters to control what tasks are enabled for the role to execute.
  • Parameters should be declared as task level vars as they are intented to be dynamic.
app_keepassxc:
  resolve_prereq:
  deploy:
  setup:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
app_keepassxc.resolve_prereq no boolean false Enable automatic resolution of prequisites
app_keepassxc.deploy no boolean false Enable installation of application packages
app_keepassxc.setup no boolean false Enable application configuration

End State

  • Use end-state parameters to define the target state after role execution.
  • Parameters should be declared in host_vars or group_vars as they are intended to be permanent.
app_keepassxc_application:
  name:
  type:
  version:
  installed:
app_keepassxc_actions:
  setup:
    overwrite:
app_keepassxc_setup_users:
  - name:
    home:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
app_keepassxc_application no dictionary Set application package end state
app_keepassxc_application.name no string "keepassxc" Select application package name
app_keepassxc_application.type no string "distro" Select application package type
app_keepassxc_application.version no string "latest" Select application package version
app_keepassxc_application.installed no boolean true Set application package end state
app_keepassxc_actions no dictionary Set action options
app_keepassxc_actions.setup no dictionary Set setup action options
app_keepassxc_actions.setup.overwrite no boolean false Overwrite user configurations?
app_keepassxc_setup_users yes(setup) list List of users for the setup task
app_keepassxc_setup_users.0.name yes string User login name
app_keepassxc_setup_users.0.home yes string Home full path

Deployment

OS Compatibility

  • Ubuntu20
  • Ubuntu21
  • Fedora33
  • Fedora35
  • Debian10
  • Debian11

Dependencies

  • Ansible Collections:
    • serdigital64.backup
      • bkp_archive
    • serdigital64.system
      • sys_package
      • sys_repository

Prerequisites

The Ansible engine must be already installed and configured for privileged access and remote execution.

In addition the following prerequisites can be automatically solved when running the playbook by setting the role action: resolve_prereq: true

  • Package manager for the target application is installed and enabled.

Installation Procedure

Manually install Ansible Collections from the Ansible Galaxy repository:

ansible-galaxy collection install --upgrade serdigital64.application

Automatic installation is also available by deploying A:Platform64

Contributing

Help on implementing new features and maintaining the code base is welcomed.

Please see the guidelines for further details.

Author

License

Apache-2.0