InderdeepBajwa / ancli

The missing CLI for Ansible that you always needed.

Ancli

Ancli is a CLI to create and maintain Ansible projects.

Inspired by the office Ansible directory layout recommendations

Installation

1. Download the latest binary release by clicking here
2. Drop the ancli binary into a preferred path
3. Binary can be run using ancli if added to the $PATH or /path/to/ancli. See commands below.

Usage

Create a new Ansible project and role(s)

ancli create --name <name-of-project>

Example: ancli create --name myAnsibleProject

Need to add roles? Simply reply with y to the prompts and create as many roles as needed.

Create a new role in any Ansible project

ancli new-role --name nameOfRole --project nameOfProject

Example: ancli new-role --name webservers --project primaryinfrastructure

Full new project create example:

$ ancli create --name testProject
Do you want to create Ansible role in this project? Y/n y
Enter the name of role: configureWebServers
Creating role configureWebServers...
Do you want to create Ansible role in this project? Y/n n
Project created successfully.

The above example creates the following project structure: