kulla / ansible-role-taskwarrior

Ansible role for installing and configuring the task management tool "taskwarrior" (see https://taskwarrior.org/ )

taskwarrior

Installs and configures the task management tool taskwarrior.

Role Variables

The variables for configuring this role are:

# Defines for which user taskwarrior shall be configured
# (This variable defaults to the value of the variable "ansible_user_id")
taskwarrior_user_id: "{{ ansible_user_id }}"

# Set to true, if an hourly cronjob for syncing taskwarrior shall be configured
# (The default value is "false")
taskwarrior_cronjob_sync:

# Configuration for taskwarrior
taskwarrior_configuration:

# Name of taskserver's certificate (taskd.ca)
taskwarrior_ca_certificate:

# Name of client's certifiacte (taskd.certificate)
taskwarrior_client_certificate:

# Name of client's key (taskd.key)
taskwarrior_client_key:

You can find more variables for a more specialized configuration in defaults/main.yml. However, these variables might change in the future since they aren't considered part of the officially supported variables.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
     - taskwarrior
  vars:
    taskwarrior_user_id: myusername

    taskwarrior_ca_certificate: ca.cert.pem
    taskwarrior_client_certificate: first_last.cert.pem
    taskwarrior_client_key: first_last.key.pem

    taskwarrior_cronjob_sync: true

    taskwarrior_configuration: |
      # -- My configuration of taskwarrior --
      weekstart=Sunday

      color.tag.important=bold white on rgb010

      context.work=project:work or +important

The taskwarrior configuration can also be read from a file using the file lookup plugin or from a template with the template lookup plugin:

taskwarrior_configuration: "{{ lookup('file', 'my_config.conf') }}"

Syncing to a taskserver

With the following variables you provide the names of certificates which are needed in order to connect to a taskserver. If those variables are set, the certificates are copied to the remote machine. Note that you want to protect them properly (e.g. with Ansible vault:

taskwarrior_ca_certificate: ca.cert.pem
taskwarrior_client_certificate: first_last.cert.pem
taskwarrior_client_key: first_last.key.pem

This role automatically sets the configuration settings taskd.ca, taskd.key and taskd.certificate. However you need to add the missing configuration settings for using a taskserver in the variable taskwarrior_configuration:

taskwarrior_configuration: |
  taskd.server=...
  taskd.credentials=...

In the taskwarrior documentation you can find more information for configuring taskwarrior with a taskserver.

Dependencies and Requirements

This role has no dependencies or requirements.

License

To the extent possible under law, I waive all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this software stored under https://github.com/kulla/ansible-role-taskwarrior. Thus, I publish this software under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. This software is published from Germany.

Author Information

The main author is Stephan Kulla. Thanks to nkakouros for his contributions.