Best practices ansible-galaxy

[Benjamin Bauer]

The answer to a question I asked was, that I should alter a role I installed from galaxy to solve my problem. I already utilized/altered several other roles from galaxy, but I'm still not sure of what's the proper workflow for galaxy.

• Are there guidlines/articles around galaxy workflows?
  
• Do I install them to my project folder or globally?
• Is there a version/dependency management planned (like bundler for ruby)?
• Alterations of roles (assuming the changes are too specific to create a pull request):
• How to alter a role but still be able to get updates from "upstream"? Or is this the wrong way to think about it and galaxy installs are more of a one-shot thing?
• My idea would then be to rather clone the the role via git, put my changes in a patch and pull regularly from upstream. But this would kind of defeat the purpose of galaxy install?

[Michael DeHaan]

"

• Are there guidlines/articles around galaxy workflows"

YES.   Help lives here:

https://galaxy.ansible.com/intro

"

• Is there a version/dependency management planned (like bundler for ruby)"

The ansible-galaxy tool can already install things with a requirements file, see --help.   It knows about deps already too, even without that.   All role deps are automatically downloaded.  We're open to enhancements and these should be discussed on ansible-devel

If you want to submit a pull request to somebody else's role it's up to them to merge it in.

If you have your own, it probably doesn't make sense to upload it to Galaxy - that would clutter things up, unless they start to diverge or can't be reconciled.

Internal non-reusable things for personal or private infrastructure probably don't belong on Galaxy.

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