ansible-galaxy-install

A simple wrapper script that calls ansible-galaxy install but also enables transitive role requirement (dependency) downloads based on the presence of roles' meta/requirements.yml files.

How does it work?

It's a simple bash script that wraps the call to ansible-galaxy install, passing in all the same options and arguments. The wrapper script just delegates to this native ansible command.

However, once the native ansible-galaxy install command finishes, if anything has been downloaded, the script checks to see if any downloaded roles have a meta/requirements.yml file. If so, the wrapper script calls ansible-galaxy install on those requirements.yml files, passing along the same exact options that you specified. It continues this process for all downloaded roles, walking the dependency tree until all transitive requirements have been resolved via ansible-galaxy.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lhazlewood/ansible-galaxy-install/master/bin/ansible-galaxy-install -o ansible-galaxy-install
chmod ugo+x ansible-galaxy-install
# put ansible-galaxy-install somewhere in your $PATH

Usage

Once the ansible-galaxy-install script is added to your $PATH, just call ansible-galaxy-install (with two dashes) instead of the native ansible-galaxy install (one dash, one space) command.

Use it identically to ansible-galaxy install, with all the same options and arguments. The wrapper script just delegates to the native ansible command.

Note

This command only downloads transitive requirements for newly downloaded roles. If a requirement has been downloaded already, it is skipped (and its meta/requirements.yml file - if any - is not evaluated at all), which is standard ansible-galaxy behavior.

If you want to force downloads of the immediate requirements use the standard --force options. If you want to force downloads of immediate requirements and their dependencies (and so on and so forth transitively), use the standard --force-with-deps option.