A cookiecutter project template for Ansible collection. By using cookiecutter, consistent Ansible projects can be achieved with common constructs. Many great projects already use cookiecutter behind the scenes (Ansible, Molecule).
Execute the following and answer the relevant questions.
cookiecutter https://github.com/mrlesmithjr/cookiecutter-ansible-collectionIn this example we will create an Ansible role for NGINX.
cookiecutter https://github.com/mrlesmithjr/cookiecutter-ansible-collection
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role_name [Enter Ansible role name]: test-role
description [Enter description of Ansible role]: A test role
author [Your Name]: Larry Smith Jr.
company [Enter company name]:
email [[email protected]]: [email protected]
website [http://example.com]: http://everythingshouldbevirtual.com
twitter [example]: mrlesmithjr
Select license:
1 - MIT
2 - BSD-3
3 - Apache Software License 2.0
Choose from 1, 2, 3 [1]:
min_ansible_version [2.8]:
year [2020]:
github_username [Enter your GitHub username]: mrlesmithjr
travis_username [Enter your Travis CI username]: mrlesmithjr
Select default_ci_badges:
1 - Y
2 - N
Choose from 1, 2 [1]:Once the above is completed our new nginx directory will look similar to:
test-role
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── CONTRIBUTORS.md
├── LICENSE.md
├── README.md
├── defaults
│ └── main.yml
├── files
├── handlers
│ └── main.yml
├── meta
│ └── main.yml
├── molecule
│ ├── default
│ │ ├── Dockerfile.j2
│ │ ├── INSTALL.rst
│ │ └── molecule.yml
│ ├── shared
│ │ ├── playbook.yml
│ │ └── tests
│ │ ├── __pycache__
│ │ │ └── test_default.cpython-37.pyc
│ │ └── test_default.py
│ └── vagrant
│ ├── INSTALL.rst
│ ├── molecule.yml
│ ├── prepare.yml
│ └── tests
│ └── __pycache__
│ └── test_default.cpython-37.pyc
├── playbook.yml
├── requirements-dev.txt
├── requirements.txt
├── requirements.yml
├── tasks
│ └── main.yml
├── templates
└── vars
└── main.ymlThe current licensing model is MIT by default.
Larry Smith Jr.