Download and install assets from Github releases page.
Note: Do not modify README.md directly. It is auto-generated by python generate_readme in readme_src folder.
ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/QueraTeam/ansible-github.gitAlternatively, you may manually install the install_from_github module itself as a local custom module instead of installing the module through the quera.github Ansible collection. However, it is recommended to use quera.github collection unless you have a good reason not to. Here are the commands to install the install_from_github module as a local custom module:
# Create the user custom module directory mkdir ~/.ansible/plugins/modules # Install the install_from_github module into the user custom module directory curl -o ~/.ansible/plugins/modules/install_from_github.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QueraTeam/ansible-github/main/plugins/modules/install_from_github.pyThis module can be used to select a release from a Github repository, select an asset from that release based on OS and CPU architecture, download the asset, and install files/directories from the asset.
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| asset_arch_mapping | Type: dict | If the repo uses non-standard strings to specify CPU architecture, you can define a custom mapping between those and standard architectures. For example, if some repo uses 64 instead of x86_64 or amd64, you can set this option to amd64: "64" or x86_64: "64". |
| asset_regex | Type: str Required | A regex for selecting an asset (file name) from all the assets of selected release. If there are multiple assets for different OSes and CPU architectures, you don't need to specify OS (darwin, linux, ...) and architecture (x86_64, amd64, aarch64, arm64, ...) in your regex (just write .* in place of them). This module tries to narrow down assets based on the system's OS and CPU architecture. |
| move_rules | Type: list Required | You need to specify how individual items from an asset should be moved to the system. Privide a list of rules. Each rule should specify src_regex and dst, and could specify mode, owner, group. An asset can be a single file, or an archive (.zip, .tar.gz, ...). When asset is an archive, you select by src_regex some paths (directories or files) relative to archive root, and they will move to dst. Even if the asset is just a single file (not an archive), you should specify a rule to move that file (src_regex can be any regex mathing file name, e.g. .*). |
| repo | Type: str Required | The name of the repository in the format user_or_org/repo_name. |
| tag | Type: str Default: latest | The tag to select from releases page. The default (latest) means the most recent non-prerelease, non-draft release. |
| version_command | Type: str | The command to get the currently installed version. (e.g. some_command --version) If the output of this command matches the selected asset, downloading and installing the asset is skipped. |
| version_file | Type: path | Path to a file containing the version of currently installed version. The module reads the version from this file instead of version_command before installing (to skip download if the desired version is installed) and writes the installed version to this file after successful installation. This is useful for non-executable assets which don't have any --version command (e.g. fonts, ...). |
| version_regex | Type: str Default: \d+\.\d+(?:\.\d+)? | A regex for extracting version from the output of version_command or tag name. The default is to match 2 or 3 numbers joined by .. E.g. 1.12.7 or 1.12 |
- If you pass
version_file, you can't passversion_commandorversion_regexoptions.
- name: install latest version of lego (ACME client) quera.github.install_from_github: repo: go-acme/lego asset_regex: lego.*\.tar\.gz version_command: lego --version move_rules: - src_regex: lego dst: /usr/local/bin mode: 0755