Can I add roles in a private git repo as a meta/dependancy in Ansible?

Question

I have a bunch of Ansible roles that I'd like to reuse. They are each kept in a repo in a private BitBucket.

I want to add projects that are hosted in Git as meta/dependencies for my the roles I'm working on but I can't quite figure out the syntax is.

In this non-working example, a role requires another role to be deployed first with parameters prior to running.

FYI, The remote role "acm_layout" is intended to create a standard directory layout for the server, so that my role can run knowing that all of the standard directories already exist.

---
dependencies:
   - { role: project_keys } # Works fine, just reuses a local role

   - name: acm_layout # Doesn't work, but this is what I want to fix
     src: ssh://[email protected]/acm/acm_layout.git
     scm: git
     version: feature/initialize
     application_storage_dir: "{{base_storage_dir}}"
     application_data_dir: "{{app_data_dir}}"

When I runt this I get the following error:

ERROR! the role 'acm_layout' was not found in [lots of paths deleted]

The error appears to have been in '/home/zs5fgzg/_tmp/horizon_deployment_scf/ansible/roles/horizon_layout/meta/main.yaml': line 4, column 6, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

   - { role: horizon_keys }
   - src: ssh://[email protected]:7999/acm/acm_layout.git
     ^ here

So what's the correct way to do this?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use ansible-galaxy install with requirements.yml option to get roles remotely. Create requirements.yml as follows:

• https://github.com/avinash6784/elk-stack/blob/master/requirements.yml

And run the following command:

$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml -p roles/

For more info on how to get roles using ansible-galaxy please visit http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/galaxy.html