Ansible role: sanity_check

Perform sanity checks against the host environment where the ansible playbook is being run and abandon if any issues are found.

Checks include:

• Ansible version
• Required python modules are installed
• Ansible playbook directory is checked out from the right git branch and there are no local changes in the git working tree.

Requirements

To use this role, the python packages netaddr, jmespath and passlib must be installed on the host running ansible.

Role Variables

ENTRY POINT: main - Perform sanity checks before running playbooks

        Perform sanity checks against the host environment where the
        ansible playbook is being run and abandon if any issues are
        found. Checks include: ansible version, required python
        modules are installed, ansible playbook directory is checked
        out from the right git branch and there are no local changes
        in the git working tree.

OPTIONS (= is mandatory):

- sanity_check_ansible_playbook_dir
        Path to ansible playbook directory
        default: '{{ ansible_config_file | dirname }}'
        type: str

- sanity_check_git_branch
        Name of the git branch that ansible playbooks should be run
        from
        default: main
        type: str

- sanity_check_git_repo
        If true, run git repo sanity checks against ansible playbook
        directory
        default: true
        type: bool

- sanity_check_minimum_ansible_version
        Minimum ansible version required to run the playbooks
        default: 2.12.0
        type: str

- sanity_check_python_modules
        Python modules required to run the playbooks
        default: [{apt_package: python3-passlib, name: passlib}, {apt_package: python3-jmespath, name: jmespath},
          {apt_package: python3-netaddr, name: netaddr}]
        elements: dict
        type: list

        OPTIONS:

        = apt_package
            Apt package which provides the python module
            type: str

        = name
            Python module name
            type: str

Installation

This role can either be installed manually with the ansible-galaxy CLI tool:

ansible-galaxy install git+https://github.com/wandansible/sanity_check,main,wandansible.sanity_check

Or, by adding the following to requirements.yml:

- name: wandansible.sanity_check
  src: https://github.com/wandansible/sanity_check

Roles listed in requirements.yml can be installed with the following ansible-galaxy command:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: wandansible.sanity_check
  gather_facts: false
  run_once: true
  become: false