This is a role that enables you to install or remove packages in Ansible.
Remember that for every distribution the packages have specific names.
You can define to install packages on a host level in Ansible
packages_installhost: "qemu-guest-agent, python3, python3-setuptools, python3-pip, python3-pylibmc, python3-pymysql, python3-mysqldb"
If you want to remove packages, use the packages_removehost variable instead.
If you would like to install packages for several hosts you need to use Ansible groups.
Define your variables where every host can access them, e.g. in group_vars/all.yml.
packages_installgroup:
platforms_ubuntu:
- "nmap"
- "tcpdump"
- "mc"
- "git"
- "screen"
- "vim"
tags_desktop:
- "gvim"
This will install packages on hosts that belong to the groups platforms_ubuntu and tags_desktop.
Ansible roles should be atomar / modular. Several roles install packages which is a bad idea in general. To make it more smooth, just call this role and hand over the packages you want.
Here you can see how the chrony role does it:
- name: Set package name for calling packages role
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
packages_installrole: "{{ chronyd_packagename }}"
- name: install additional packages for snap or flatpak
ansible.builtin.include_role:
name: imp1sh.ansible_managemynetwork.ansible_packages
packages_installrole is a list of packages that shall get installed. chronyd_packagename here is only one item: chrony for Debian.