Re: [ansible-project] Installation task that requires feedback from the install

[Michael DeHaan]

This seems to have a non-interactive option.

http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#_non_interactive_automatic_headless_installs_or_upgrades

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, James Jelinek <jel...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm new to Ansible and so far I love it.  I had a question regarding installation of a package that requires feedback from the user.

ie.  The passenger-install-nginx-module that installs phusion passenger for Rails and nginx in one bundle.

Here are the commands I would enter if I were doing it manually on the machine.  Note: This relies on Ruby already being installed which is another process I'm tackling since Ruby from source/RVM is best compared to a packaged version that might be outdated.

sudo gem install passenger

sudo passenger-install-nginx-module

From there I am prompted to install Nginx and configure passenger.  All of the default dirs/options are fine but they require input from the end-user.

I've been able to install nginx-full via apt on ansible then do a service check to make sure nginx is running which is great.  But what if I wanted to install the passenger-install-nginx-module?  What options do I have to push this out to all 3 of my VMs and deal with the user interaction?

Thanks in advance!

-James

@jamesjelinek

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[James Jelinek]

Michael,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I think the passenger-install-nginx-module was a poor example.  What if there was an install or package that required interactive answers but did not have a headless option?  How would one handle that in Ansible?

Btw, so far I'm loving it.  It's much easier to get things done than in Chef/Puppet.  So far I don't see any limitations but again I'm just getting started.

Thanks for all your help.

-James

@jamesjelinek

[Brian Coca]

from my rails install playbook

    - name: Build nginx w passenger 

      shell: passenger-install-nginx-module --auto --auto-download --prefix=/opt/nginx creates=/opt/nginx

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[James Jelinek]

Awesome, thanks!

Would you mind sharing your full rails install playbook with me?  You can email me directly if you like.

Thanks!

-James

[Brian Coca]

this is it, i have a few  more tasks but they have to do with custom stuff for our apps

http://pastebin.com/3aUU8gLY

[James Jelinek]

This is great, I'm going to bookmark it.  Thanks Brian!

[Brian Coca]

I need to cleanup, but i'll add this and more to my github ansible-pb repo.

[Michael DeHaan]

If something goes interactive and can only be done that way, you would probably have to use expect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

[James Jelinek]

That's what I figured, luckily most packages have headless installs and options.

Thanks again, Michael.