Cookiecutter Templates

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TODO:

  • Overall structure.
  • Initial draft complete
  • Testing
  • Ready

Creating a role with molecule

You can use ansible-galaxy to create a role. You can also use molecule - and specify a cookie cutter template as source.

molecule init template

Example command with shell, yaml and output

molecule init template \
  --url https://github.com/devopstoolbox/cookiecutter-role.git \
  --role-name myrole

--> Initializing new role myrole...
role_name [myrole]:
author [Mihai Criveti]:
author_information [[Mihai Criveti](https://www.linkedin.com/in/devopstoolbox/)]:
description [Myrole]:
company [Mihai Criveti]:
Select license:
1 - MIT
2 - BSD-3
Choose from 1, 2 [1]:
min_ansible_version [2.4]:
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cmihai/devopstoolbox/myrole/.git/
[master (root-commit) f7cef9b] Ansible myrole role: Myrole
 41 files changed, 1169 insertions(+)
Last update: 2020-02-09