Write Ansible Playbooks in CUE
Users write YAML files for Ansible. The experience could be enhanced using CUE with package importing, schema validation and more.
This repo provides you ready to use CUE packages for schema validation and guidance on how to integrate CUE with Ansible.
I created this project to get my hands dirty with CUE by putting it into a real usecase. You can use this repo as a reference to rewrite your Ansible Playbooks in CUE or learn some basic usage pattern of CUE.
You should install Ansible and CUE before using this repo. Some features are not
included in the latest release of CUE. So please install CUE with
go get -u cuelang.org/go/cmd/cue.
Create a new folder called playbook and write your playbook in CUE. You could
use example
as a reference. It's almost the same like writing the playbook in YAML but you
could use CUE to organize your code in packages and use module schemas to validate
the task options.
cue cmd play ./playbook will eval your playbook and write the result to playbook.yml.
Then ansible-playbook will be executed to run the playbook as well.
You can put your legacy YAML based tasks in roles folder and use include_role
module to load them in your playbook. In this way, you can migrate from YAML
to CUE gradually.