ansible-galaxy

Perform various Role and Collection related operations.

Synopsis

usage: ansible-galaxy [-h] [--version] [-v] TYPE ...

Description

command to manage Ansible roles in shared repositories, the default of which is Ansible Galaxy https://galaxy.ansible.com.

Common Options

--version

show program’s version number, config file location, configured module search path, module location, executable location and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-v, --verbose

verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection debugging)

Actions

collection

Perform the action on an Ansible Galaxy collection. Must be combined with a further action like init/install as listed below.

collection init

Creates the skeleton framework of a role or collection that complies with the Galaxy metadata format. Requires a role or collection name. The collection name must be in the format <namespace>.<collection>.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--collection-skeleton  <COLLECTION_SKELETON>

The path to a collection skeleton that the new collection should be based upon.

--init-path  <INIT_PATH>

The path in which the skeleton collection will be created. The default is the current working directory.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-f, --force

Force overwriting an existing role or collection

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

collection build

Build an Ansible Galaxy collection artifact that can be stored in a central repository like Ansible Galaxy. By default, this command builds from the current working directory. You can optionally pass in the collection input path (where the galaxy.yml file is).

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--output-path  <OUTPUT_PATH>

The path in which the collection is built to. The default is the current working directory.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-f, --force

Force overwriting an existing role or collection

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

collection publish

Publish a collection into Ansible Galaxy. Requires the path to the collection tarball to publish.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--import-timeout  <IMPORT_TIMEOUT>

The time to wait for the collection import process to finish.

--no-wait

Don’t wait for import validation results.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

collection install

Install one or more roles(ansible-galaxy role install), or one or more collections(ansible-galaxy collection install). You can pass in a list (roles or collections) or use the file option listed below (these are mutually exclusive). If you pass in a list, it can be a name (which will be downloaded via the galaxy API and github), or it can be a local tar archive file.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--force-with-deps

Force overwriting an existing collection and its dependencies.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-f, --force

Force overwriting an existing role or collection

-i, --ignore-errors

Ignore errors during installation and continue with the next specified collection. This will not ignore dependency conflict errors.

-n, --no-deps

Don’t download collections listed as dependencies.

-p  <COLLECTIONS_PATH>, --collections-path  <COLLECTIONS_PATH>

The path to the directory containing your collections.

-r  <REQUIREMENTS>, --requirements-file  <REQUIREMENTS>

A file containing a list of collections to be installed.

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role

Perform the action on an Ansible Galaxy role. Must be combined with a further action like delete/install/init as listed below.

role init

Creates the skeleton framework of a role or collection that complies with the Galaxy metadata format. Requires a role or collection name. The collection name must be in the format <namespace>.<collection>.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--init-path  <INIT_PATH>

The path in which the skeleton role will be created. The default is the current working directory.

--offline

Don’t query the galaxy API when creating roles

--role-skeleton  <ROLE_SKELETON>

The path to a role skeleton that the new role should be based upon.

--type  <ROLE_TYPE>

Initialize using an alternate role type. Valid types include: ‘container’, ‘apb’ and ‘network’.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-f, --force

Force overwriting an existing role or collection

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role remove

removes the list of roles passed as arguments from the local system.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-p, --roles-path

The path to the directory containing your roles. The default is the first writable one configured via DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH: ~/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role delete

Delete a role from Ansible Galaxy.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role list

lists the roles installed on the local system or matches a single role passed as an argument.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-p, --roles-path

The path to the directory containing your roles. The default is the first writable one configured via DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH: ~/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role search

searches for roles on the Ansible Galaxy server

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--author  <AUTHOR>

GitHub username

--galaxy-tags  <GALAXY_TAGS>

list of galaxy tags to filter by

--platforms  <PLATFORMS>

list of OS platforms to filter by

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role import

used to import a role into Ansible Galaxy

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--branch  <REFERENCE>

The name of a branch to import. Defaults to the repository’s default branch (usually master)

--no-wait

Don’t wait for import results.

--role-name  <ROLE_NAME>

The name the role should have, if different than the repo name

--status

Check the status of the most recent import request for given github_user/github_repo.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role setup

Setup an integration from Github or Travis for Ansible Galaxy roles

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--list

List all of your integrations.

--remove  <REMOVE_ID>

Remove the integration matching the provided ID value. Use –list to see ID values.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-p, --roles-path

The path to the directory containing your roles. The default is the first writable one configured via DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH: ~/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role info

prints out detailed information about an installed role as well as info available from the galaxy API.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--offline

Don’t query the galaxy API when creating roles

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-p, --roles-path

The path to the directory containing your roles. The default is the first writable one configured via DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH: ~/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

role install

Install one or more roles(ansible-galaxy role install), or one or more collections(ansible-galaxy collection install). You can pass in a list (roles or collections) or use the file option listed below (these are mutually exclusive). If you pass in a list, it can be a name (which will be downloaded via the galaxy API and github), or it can be a local tar archive file.

--api-key  <API_KEY>

The Ansible Galaxy API key which can be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/me/preferences. You can also set the token for the GALAXY_SERVER_LIST entry.

--force-with-deps

Force overwriting an existing role and its dependencies.

-c, --ignore-certs

Ignore SSL certificate validation errors.

-f, --force

Force overwriting an existing role or collection

-g, --keep-scm-meta

Use tar instead of the scm archive option when packaging the role.

-i, --ignore-errors

Ignore errors and continue with the next specified role.

-n, --no-deps

Don’t download roles listed as dependencies.

-p, --roles-path

The path to the directory containing your roles. The default is the first writable one configured via DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH: ~/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles

-r  <ROLE_FILE>, --role-file  <ROLE_FILE>

A file containing a list of roles to be imported.

-s  <API_SERVER>, --server  <API_SERVER>

The Galaxy API server URL

Environment

The following environment variables may be specified.

ANSIBLE_CONFIG – Override the default ansible config file

Many more are available for most options in ansible.cfg

Files

/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg – Config file, used if present

~/.ansible.cfg – User config file, overrides the default config if present

Author

Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan.

See the AUTHORS file for a complete list of contributors.

License

Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3+ License.

See also

ansible(1), ansible-config(1), ansible-console(1), ansible-doc(1), ansible-galaxy(1), ansible-inventory(1), ansible-playbook(1), ansible-pull(1), ansible-vault(1),