Check Ansible Version

What is it doing?

This role check the ansible-playbook version and will fail, if it is to old. This should help prevent bigger issues with to old ansible installations

How to use?

This anisble role should be executet on localhost.

Example playbook:

With ansible galaxy:

# install role
ansible-galaxy install do1jlr.ansible_version

Example playbook:

---
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
  - {role: do1jlr.ansible_version, tags: [version, always], gather_facts: false}

Without ansible galaxy:

Add this role to your roles as ansible_version. Example:

git clone https://github.com/roles-ansible/ansible_role_versioncheck.git roles/ansible_version

Your Playbook could look like this:

---
- name: check if ansible is not to old
  hosts: localhost
  tags:
    - default
    - version
    - always
  roles:
    - ansible_version
  gather_facts: false

Modifications

For possible modifications please have a look into the default Folder!

Participation

This role is developed on github. Feel free to add any Issues or PullRequests there. Thanks <3

Testing

This role is tested with these github-action tests for different versions of debian and ubuntu. Linting is tested via travis-ci and the official ansible github action. If you want to find out more about our tests, please have a look at the github marketplace.

test status	Github Marketplace
	ansible-lint action
	yamllint-github-action
	publish-ansible-role-to-galaxy
	ansible test with debian stable
	ansible test with debian sid
	ansible test with debian buster
	ansible test with debian stretch
	ansible test with ubuntu latest
	ansible test with ubuntu bionic
	ansible test with ubuntu trusty
	ansible test with ubuntu xenial
	ansible test with ubuntu xenial
	ansible test with ubuntu xenial