Ansible - Download latest release binary from Github repo

Question

With Ansible please advise how i could download the latest release binary from Github repository. As per my current understanding the steps would be: a. get URL of latest release b. download the release

For a. I have something like which does not provide the actual release (ex. v0.11.53):

 - name: get latest Gogs release
  local_action:
    module: uri
    url: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/releases/latest
    method: GET
    follow_redirects: no
    status_code: 301
    register: release_url

For b. I have the below which works but needs constant updating. Instead of version i would need a variable set in a.:

- name: download latest
    become: yes
    become-user: "{{gogs_user}}"
    get_url:
     url: https://github.com/gogs/gogs/releases/download/v0.11.53/linux_amd64.tar.gz
    dest: "/home/{{gogs_user}}/linux_amd64.tar.gz"

Thank you!

Answer 1

Another approach is to use ansible github_release module to get the latest tag

example

- name: Get gogs latest tag 
  github_release:
    user: gogs
    repo: gogs
    action: latest_release
  register: gogs_latest 

- name: Grab gogs latest binaries 
  unarchive: 
    src: "https://github.com/gogs/gogs/releases/download/{{ gogs_latest['tag'] }}/gogs_{{ gogs_latest['tag'] | regex_replace('^v','') }}_linux_amd64.zip"
    dest: /usr/local/bin
    remote_src: true 

• The regex part at the end is for replacing the v at the beginning of the tag since the format now on GitHub for gogs is gogs_0.12.3_linux_armv7.zip and latest tag includes a v