Ansible Role: serdigital64.cloud.cloud_aws_cli

Purpose

Manage provisioning of AWS CLI

Supported features in the current version:

  • Resolve prerequisites:
    • Install OS tools
  • Deploy application. Packages are defined in the variable cloud_aws_cli_profiles.

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

Usage

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

use this link if viewing the doc on github

---
- name: "Cloud / AWS / CLI / Usage example"
  hosts: "localhost"
  gather_facts: true

  tasks:
    - name: "Example: Install AWS CLI"
      vars:
        cloud_aws_cli:
          resolve_prereq: true
          deploy: true
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: "serdigital64.cloud.cloud_aws_cli"
...

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/cloud/playbooks/cloud_aws_cli.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.
cloud_aws_cli:
  resolve_prereq:
  deploy:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
cloud_aws_cli.resolve_prereq no boolean false Enable automatic resolution of prequisites
cloud_aws_cli.deploy no boolean false Enable installation of application packages

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.
cloud_aws_cli_application:
  name:
  type:
  version:
  installed:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
cloud_aws_cli_application yes(deploy) dictionary Set application package end state
cloud_aws_cli_application.name yes(deploy) string "awscli" Select application package name
cloud_aws_cli_application.type yes(deploy) string "binary" Select application package type
cloud_aws_cli_application.version yes(deploy) string "latest" Select application package version
cloud_aws_cli_application.installed yes(deploy) boolean true Set application package end state

Deployment

OS Compatibility

The operating system compatibility list is defined in the variable: cloud_aws_cli_platforms

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.
  • OS tools:
    • groff
    • less

Installation Procedure

Manually install Ansible Collections from the Ansible Galaxy repository:

ansible-galaxy collection install --upgrade serdigital64.cloud

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