ploy-ansible 1.1.0

Global

The playbooks-directory option of the ansible section allows you to specify the directory where playbooks, roles, host_vars etc are looked up. If you specify a relative path, then it’s always relative to the ploy.conf directory. If you have a structure like this:

project
|-- deployment
| |-- roles
| |-- host_vars
|
|-- etc
  |-- ploy.conf

Then you would put the following into your ploy.conf:

[ansible]
playbooks-directory = ../deployment

By default it is set to the parent directory of the directory the ploy.conf is located at like this:

project
|-- roles
|-- host_vars
|-- etc
  |-- ploy.conf

Per instance

roles

Used by the configure command. This allows you to configure an instance by applying the whitespace separated roles. This is like creating a playbook which only specifies a host and a list of roles names.

playbook

Allows you to explicitly specify a playbook to use for this instance.

Any option starting with ansible_ is passed through to Ansible as is. This can be used for settings like ansible_python_interpreter.

Any option starting with ansible- is stripped of the ansible- prefix and then passed through to Ansible. This is the main way to set Ansible variables for use in playbooks and roles.

All other options are prefixed with ploy_ and made available to Ansible.

1.1.0 - 2014-08-13

• Test and fixes for changes in ansible 1.7. [fschulze]

• Add verbosity argument to configure command. [fschulze]

1.0.0 - 2014-07-19

• Added documentation. [fschulze]

1.0b8 - 2014-07-15

• Add ansible as dependency if it can’t be imported already. [fschulze]

1.0b7 - 2014-07-08

• Packaging and test fixes. [fschulze]

1.0b6 - 2014-07-04

• Use unique instance id to avoid issues. [fschulze]

• Renamed mr.awsome to ploy and mr.awsome.ansible to ploy_ansible. [fschulze]

1.0b5 - 2014-06-16

• Set user in playbook to the one from the config if it’s not set already. [fschulze]

• Change default playbook directory from the aws.conf directory to it’s parent. [fschulze]

1.0b4 - 2014-06-11

• Added playbook and roles config options for instances. [fschulze]

• Added has_playbook and configure methods to instances. [fschulze]

• Added before/after_ansible_configure hooks. [fschulze]

1.0b3 - 2014-06-09

• Use execnet for connections. There is only one ssh connection per host and it’s reused for all commands. [fschulze]

• Make sure the playbook directory is always absolute. [fschulze]

• Prevent use of persistent ssh connections, as that easily results in connections to wrong jails because of the proxying. This makes ansible a lot slower at the moment. [fschulze]

• Add support for su and vault (ansible 1.5) as well as --force-handlers (ansible 1.6). [fschulze]

• Removed ansible from install requirements. It won’t install in a buildout so it needs to be installed in a virtualenv or via a system package. [fschulze]

1.0b2 - 2014-05-15

• Add configure command which is a stripped down variant of the playbook command with assumptions about the location of the yml file. [fschulze]

• Warn if a playbook is requested for a host that is not configured in the playbook hosts list. [fschulze]

• Allow mr.awsome plugins to add ansible variables. [fschulze]

• Inject the ansible paths sooner as they may not apply in some cases otherwise. [fschulze]

• Moved setuptools-git from setup.py to .travis.yml, it’s only needed for releases and testing. [fschulze]

1.0b1 - 2014-03-24

• Initial release [fschulze]