Including sub-roles in ansible playbook? - ansible

Question

I have a ansible role that requires other roles, but is not loading correctly from my playbook. My role is here, Jenkins Role, it has dependencies on two other geerlingguy roles, which are listed here
meta/main.yml
galaxy_info:
author: Jd Daniel
description: Jenkins installer
company: GE Health
min_ansible_version: 2.2
role_name: jenkins
license: GPLv3
platforms:
- name: EL
versions:
- 7
galaxy_tags:
- jenkins
- deployment
- continuous-deployment
- cd
dependencies:
- { role: geerlingguy.repo-epel }
- { role: geerlingguy.jenkins, jenkins_plugins: [] }
My roles ansible.cfg in this role also points to the roles/ directory
[defaults]
# without this, the connection to a new instance is interactive
host_key_checking = False
roles_path = roles/
and the roles are downloaded into the roles/ folder
┌─[10:25:24]─[ehime#GC02WW38KHTD6E]─[~/Repositories/Infra/Ansible/ansible-role-jenkins]
└──> tree -L 2
.
├── [ehime 34K] LICENSE
├── [ehime 1.3K] README.md
├── [ehime 128] ansible.cfg
├── [ehime 96] defaults
│   └── [ehime 32] main.yml
├── [ehime 96] files
│   └── [ehime 633] job.xml
├── [ehime 96] handlers
│   └── [ehime 33] main.yml
├── [ehime 96] meta
│   └── [ehime 417] main.yml
├── [ehime 160] roles
│   ├── [ehime 384] geerlingguy.java
│   ├── [ehime 416] geerlingguy.jenkins
│   └── [ehime 320] geerlingguy.repo-epel
├── [ehime 96] tasks
│   └── [ehime 737] main.yml
├── [ehime 352] tests
│   ├── [ehime 669] README.md
│   ├── [ehime 276] Vagrantfile
│   ├── [ehime 121] ansible.cfg
│   ├── [ehime 203] inventory
│   ├── [ehime 221] requirements.yml
│   ├── [ehime 96] roles
│   ├── [ehime 10] test_7_default.retry
│   └── [ehime 182] test_7_default.yml
└── [ehime 96] vars
└── [ehime 91] main.yml
My tasks should be pulling these in then? right?
tasks/main.yml
---
- name: Install required roles
include_role:
name: "{{ roles }}"
vars:
roles:
- geerlingguy.epel-repo
- geerlingguy.jenkins
.... other tasks ....
When running my playbook though...
jenkins.yml
#
# Ansible to provision Jenkins on remote host
#
- name: Install Jenkins and its plugins
hosts: all
become: yes
become_method: sudo
gather_facts: yes
vars:
jenkins_hostname: localhost
jenkins_http_port: 8080
roles:
- ehime.jenkins
pre_tasks:
- name: CA-Certificates update command line execution
command: /bin/update-ca-trust
tasks:
- name: Set up pipeline
jenkins_job:
config: "{{ lookup('file', 'files/job.xml') }}"
name: test-auto
user: "{{ jenkins_admin_username }}"
password: "{{ jenkins_admin_password }}"
When trying to run the following playbook though
#
# Ansible to provision Jenkins on remote host
#
- name: Install Jenkins and its plugins
hosts: all
become: yes
become_method: sudo
gather_facts: yes
vars:
jenkins_hostname: localhost
jenkins_http_port: 8080
roles:
- ehime.jenkins
pre_tasks:
- name: CA-Certificates update command line execution
command: /bin/update-ca-trust
tasks:
- name: Set up pipeline
jenkins_job:
config: "{{ lookup('file', 'files/job.xml') }}"
name: test-auto
user: "{{ jenkins_admin_username }}"
password: "{{ jenkins_admin_password }}"
With my playbooks config...
ansible.cfg
[defaults]
# without this, the connection to a new instance is interactive
host_key_checking = False
roles_path = roles/
remote_user = ec2-user
private_key_file = ../_keys/test-jenkins
I get the following error....
error
TASK [include_role : {{ roles }}] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ERROR! Invalid role definition: [u'geerlingguy.epel-repo', u'geerlingguy.jenkins']
It's evidently NOT seeing the roles in roles/ehime.jenkins/roles but I'm not sure how to get those working. It also seem like it ignores my meta/main.yml for a galaxy install? Should these be in the requirements.yml?

Answer 1

Like an idiot, I had my dependencies tabbed in too far...
galaxy_info:
author: Jd Daniel
description: Jenkins installer
company: GE Health
min_ansible_version: 2.2
role_name: jenkins
license: GPLv3
platforms:
- name: EL
versions:
- 7
galaxy_tags:
- jenkins
- deployment
- continuous-deployment
- cd
# Issue is here....
dependencies:
- { role: geerlingguy.repo-epel }
- { role: geerlingguy.jenkins, jenkins_plugins: [] }
should have been
galaxy_info:
author: Jd Daniel
description: Jenkins installer
company: GE Health
min_ansible_version: 2.2
role_name: jenkins
license: GPLv3
platforms:
- name: EL
versions:
- 7
galaxy_tags:
- jenkins
- deployment
- continuous-deployment
- cd
# Issue is here....
dependencies:
- { role: geerlingguy.repo-epel }
- { role: geerlingguy.jenkins, jenkins_plugins: [] }