publishing custom modules, and module dependencies in roles

[Charlie DeTar]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out if I can publish a custom module, and roles that depend on it.  The developing modules docs talk about setting ANSIBLE_LIBRARY environment variable for pointing to where a module exists, and ansible.cfg's `library` can set a path, and then there's the `./library` folder within a playbook.  But all of those controls are at the playbook level, not at the role level.

I can't figure out how to indicate that a role depends on a particular custom module, and next, how to publish that role in a way that brings the custom module with it to e.g. Ansible Galaxy.  I see that roles can express dependencies on other roles -- which would be great, I could write a "wrapper" role around the module so it could function as a role dependency -- but I'd have to first get the module to ship with the role.

Is there any way to ship a module along with a role?  Or short of that, some way to declare a remote module dependency within a role?  Or am I stuck with requiring every playbook that uses a role with a custom module dependency to micromanage the paths to those libraries?

best,
Charlie

[Brian Coca]

Create a library dir inside the role, put modules there

This works now for all kind of plugins, callback_plugins/, filter_plugins/, etc

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Brian Coca