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What are your skills and experience with local usage of Ansible Galaxy mechanics?
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Experience with Ansible Galaxy includes:
- Searching and using roles: Actively using
ansible-galaxy searchandansible-galaxy installto find and install public roles from Galaxy Hub, which allows for quick addition of standard configurations and avoids "reinventing the wheel". - Developing custom roles: Creating own roles for specific tasks and reusable scenarios. The role structure complies with Galaxy requirements for potential publication (although for local use this is not always necessary).
- Managing dependencies: Using the
requirements.ymlfile to explicitly define role dependencies and their versions. This facilitates reproducibility and allows managing roles from git repositories.// requirements.yml - src: geezer.docker version: 2.2.0 - src: git+https://github.com/my-org/my-custom-role.git version: main name: custom_role - Local storage and versioning: Initially storing own roles in separate git repositories. For use in projects, cloning them or specifying the git address in
requirements.yml. - Using collections: Working with collections to group related roles, plugins, and modules. This improves organization and modularity.
// requirements.yml with collection - name: community.general version: 4.0.0 - Offline mode: Familiar with using
ansible-galaxy installin offline mode, after pre-downloading roles or collections. - Integration into CI/CD: Integrating role installation from
requirements.ymlinto CI/CD pipelines for automatic environment setup.# Example in GitLab CI/CD .gitlab-ci.yml before_script: - ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
Overall, local use of Ansible Galaxy mechanics significantly enhances the efficiency, modularity, and reproducibility of playbooks.