role-asdf

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Production:

Ansible role that installs the asdf version manager on OSX machines.

Notes:

• See the asdf documentation for further details about this tool.
• This role was inspired and derived from this fantastic Ansible role for Linux machines.

Requirements

• Homebrew must aleady be present on the machine (geerlingguy.mac.hombrew is a great solution for this).
• See the homebrew website for further details about this tool.

Role Variables

Each plugin should be configured in the following format:

asdf_plugins:
  - name: "erlang"        # a plugin name
    environment: {}       # an optional dictionary of environment variables for build configuration
    repository: ""        # a plugin repository, optional
    versions:             # a list of versions to install
      - 23.3.3
      - 23.3.4
    delete_versions: []   # a list of existing versions that will be removed
    global: 23.3.4        # set as a global version, optional

The following variables are also configured:

• asdf_version:
  • Sets the git tag of asdf.
• asdf_user:
  • Sets a user for which the role is installed. This user needs to be able to run Homebrew to install dependencies required for asdf plugins.
  • For further details see the geeringguy.mac.homebrew repository. (You may need to set the homebrew_user variable as well.)
  • The default value will work fine if you're simply installing for the current user.
• asdf_user_home:
  • Sets the user's home folder location, if needed. Take care to set it explicitly when installing for another user.
• asdf_homebrew_retries:
  • Sets the number of attempts homebrew will make to install dependencies. (For flaky network connections.)
• asdf_legacy_version_file:
  • Specifies if plugins which support this feature should read the version files used by other version managers (e.g. .ruby-version in the case of Ruby's rbenv).
• asdf_darwin_global_dependencies:
  • Sets homebrew packages which will be installed with any asdf install.
• asdf_darwin_optional_dependencies:
  • Sets additional requirements that will be installed with any asdf plugin install.

See The Default Values

Plugin Specific Configuration

Plugins can also have their own specific dependencies and extra configuration. To add extra dependencies, simply append your plugin to this list, and add the homebrew dependencies:

asdf_darwin_plugin_dependencies:
  erlang: ["autoconf", "fop", "libyaml", "libxslt", "libtool", "unixodbc", "wxmac"]
  nodejs: ["gpg", "gnupg"]
  php: []
  ruby: []
  python: ["sqlite3", "xz", "zlib"]

To create additional custom configurations simply create a task file in the plugin_tasks folder in the format: (PLUGIN_NAME).yaml (i.e. python.yml, nodejs.yml)

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
  - role: elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools
  - role: geerlingguy.mac.homebrew
  - role: osx_provisioner.asdf
    asdf_plugins:
    - name: "erlang"
      versions: ["23.3.4", "23.3.3"]
      global: "23.3.4"
      environment:
        KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS: "--without-javac --with-ssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1 --disable-hipe"
        CFLAGS: "-O2 -g -fno-stack-check"
    - name: "python"
      versions: "3.9.1"

License

MIT

(asdf is also licensed as MIT)

Author Information

Niall Byrne niall@niallbyrne.ca