Feature: Playbook to update requirements.yml

[zzecool]

Related to

Service (scheduled tasks, alerts), Ansible (task execution), Docker

Impact

better user experience

Missing Feature

I was reading the documention about the /home/semaphore/requirements.yml at : https://docs.semui.co/administration-guide/installation_manually#ansible-collections-and-roles-1

I believe the most refined way to perform the actual installation or update is by using a Task in Semaphore for localhost.

1: Create and populate the requirements.yml.
2: Make a task with the following playbook.

---
- name: Install or upgrade Ansible collections and roles
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Install or upgrade collections
      command: ansible-galaxy collection install --upgrade -r /home/semaphore/requirements.yml
      ignore_errors: yes

    - name: Install roles
      command: ansible-galaxy role install --force -r /home/semaphore/requirements.yml
      ignore_errors: yes

3: Schedule it to run with cron.
4: You are always up to date.

Implementation

As a build in playbook untill you will add in the web interface a way to add collections and roles.

Design

No response

[Thomas Boerger]

Why should this be defined as a playbook? If the requirements file is part of the repository it's getting updated before the playbook defined by the task starts.

[zzecool]

Why should this be defined as a playbook? If the requirements file is part of the repository it's getting updated before the playbook defined by the task starts.

So your playbooks are more efficient.

[Thomas Boerger]

How would this be more efficient?

[zzecool]

How would this be more efficient?

Downloading the same things over and over again does not seem efficient to me.

Also you have a whole page in the Docs about the exact thing

So instead of this :

You use Ansible, make a playbook and run the Task throught the Semaphore UI.