TIL installing ansible roles from github and other sources

You’re not just limited to installing Ansible roles from Ansible Galaxy, you can use public and private git repos too.

Here I’m installing Oefenweb’s Dropbox role using the git+https syntax for a publicly accessible git url:

ansible-galaxy install --roles-path ./roles https://github.com/Oefenweb/ansible-dropbox.git

And here, I’m accessing Foo’s private weevils repository that I have access to (using the git+git syntax):

ansible-galaxy install --roles-path ./roles git+git://example.com/foo/weevils.git

As well as adding these individually from the commandline, you could add them to a requirements.txt file which you could then use all the roles to install with ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml.