Answer is to use requirements.yml: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/galaxy.html#id10
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Vince Skahan <vinceska...@gmail.com> wrote: > Working in a puppet shop, I have to admit r10k is pretty cool. It lets us > set up 'versioned' environment definitions that we can apply to the right > target computers, ala "use the development version of the puppet code > (profile) that configures package XYZ". All those profiles are in git, > with versioning done via either branches (give me branch-XYZ latest) or via > tags (give me tag v1.2.3). > > One discussion on serverfault was at http://serverfault.com/ > questions/788930/what-is-the-equivalent-of-r10k-in-ansible - the > preferred answer has a very good example of what a r10k Puppetfile looks > like, and what the ansible-galaxy equivalent would be. The question of > course is how to do that in vanilla ansible 'without' galaxy. > > Bottom line - we don't always use 'latest greatest version' of our > automation code (puppet roles/profiles or for ansible > roles/tasks/handlers/etc.), nor should we. We're using the right version > of our automation code and vars to get us the desired end state. > > So, we want to be able to define our environments to say configuration-ABC > is: > > - these variable=values definitions (from a tag or branch of a git > repo) > - these roles/tasks/handlers (from a tag or branch of a git repo, > likely one per thingy we're trying to install+configure) > > All without ansible-galaxy, using just ansible. How might we make that > happen ? > > Again, the link above has a great definition of how Puppet/r10k work, and > what the galaxy equivalent would be. I just can't afford/use galaxy at > all. Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/ansible-project/990b647e-0614-4e1d-9d0f-98b6973839ea%40googlegroups. > com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/990b647e-0614-4e1d-9d0f-98b6973839ea%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAF%3D2pTYw%2BtkT6A_9q_63c3-Xwpc5KtJCggrQAfmBjwoapcbXuw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
