community.general.ansible_galaxy_install module – Install Ansible roles or collections using ansible-galaxy

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ansible_galaxy_install.

New in community.general 3.5.0

Synopsis

  • This module allows the installation of Ansible collections or roles using ansible-galaxy.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • ansible-core 2.11 or newer

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

dest

path

The path to the directory containing your collections or roles, according to the value of type.

Please notice that ansible-galaxy will not install collections with type=both, when requirements_file contains both roles and collections and dest is specified.

force

boolean

Force overwriting existing roles and/or collections.

It can be used for upgrading, but the module output will always report changed=true.

Using force=true is mandatory when downgrading.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

name

string

Name of the collection or role being installed.

Versions can be specified with ansible-galaxy usual formats. For example, the collection community.docker:1.6.1 or the role ansistrano.deploy,3.8.0.

name and requirements_file are mutually exclusive.

no_deps

boolean

added in community.general 4.5.0

Refrain from installing dependencies.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

requirements_file

path

Path to a file containing a list of requirements to be installed.

It works for type equals to collection and role.

name and requirements_file are mutually exclusive.

state

string

added in community.general 9.1.0

If state=present then the collection or role will be installed. Note that the collections and roles are not updated with this option.

Currently the state=latest is ignored unless type=collection, and it will ensure the collection is installed and updated to the latest available version.

Please note that force=true can be used to perform upgrade regardless of type.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "latest"

type

string / required

The type of installation performed by ansible-galaxy.

If type=both, then requirements_file must be passed and it may contain both roles and collections.

Note however that the opposite is not true: if using a requirements_file, then type can be any of the three choices.

Choices:

  • "collection"

  • "role"

  • "both"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • Support for Ansible 2.9/2.10 was removed in community.general 8.0.0.

  • The module will try and run using the C.UTF-8 locale. If that fails, it will try en_US.UTF-8. If that one also fails, the module will fail.

See Also

See also

C(ansible-galaxy) command manual page

Manual page for the command.

Examples

- name: Install collection community.network
  community.general.ansible_galaxy_install:
    type: collection
    name: community.network

- name: Install role at specific path
  community.general.ansible_galaxy_install:
    type: role
    name: ansistrano.deploy
    dest: /ansible/roles

- name: Install collections and roles together
  community.general.ansible_galaxy_install:
    type: both
    requirements_file: requirements.yml

- name: Force-install collection community.network at specific version
  community.general.ansible_galaxy_install:
    type: collection
    name: community.network:3.0.2
    force: true

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

dest

string

The value of the dest parameter.

Returned: always

force

boolean

The value of the force parameter.

Returned: always

installed_collections

dictionary

If requirements_file is specified instead, returns dictionary with all the collections installed per path.

If name is specified, returns that collection name and the version installed per path.

Returned: always when installing collections

Sample: {"/custom/ansible/ansible_collections": {"community.general": "3.1.0"}, "/home/az/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections": {"community.docker": "1.6.0", "community.general": "3.0.2"}}

<path>

dictionary

Collections and versions for that path.

Returned: success

installed_roles

dictionary

If requirements_file is specified instead, returns dictionary with all the roles installed per path.

If name is specified, returns that role name and the version installed per path.

Returned: always when installing roles

Sample: {"/custom/ansible/roles": {"ansistrano.deploy": "3.8.0"}, "/home/user42/.ansible/roles": {"ansistrano.deploy": "3.9.0", "baztian.xfce": "v0.0.3"}}

<path>

dictionary

Roles and versions for that path.

Returned: success

name

string

The value of the name parameter.

Returned: always

new_collections

dictionary

New collections installed by this module.

Returned: success

Sample: {"community.docker": "1.6.1", "community.general": "3.1.0"}

new_roles

dictionary

New roles installed by this module.

Returned: success

Sample: {"ansistrano.deploy": "3.8.0", "baztian.xfce": "v0.0.3"}

requirements_file

string

The value of the requirements_file parameter.

Returned: always

type

string

The value of the type parameter.

Returned: always

version

string

added in community.general 10.0.0

Version of ansible-core for ansible-galaxy.

Returned: always

Sample: "2.17.4"

Authors

  • Alexei Znamensky (@russoz)