Microsoft Repository

An Ansible role that adds the Microsoft repository to Linux distributions and installs packages from it.

Upgrade to 2.x

Since version 2.0.0, the variable microsoft_repository_dirs_list has changed to microsoft_repository_enable_prod_repository and microsoft_repository_additional_directories.

Requirements

• Supported version of Ansible: 2.12 and higher. Systems with Python versions below than 3.7 are not compatible with ansible-core 2.17 (see ansible/ansible#83357).
• Supported platforms:
  • Debian
    • 10
    • 11
  • RHEL
    • 7
    • 8
    • 9
  • Ubuntu
    • 18.04
    • 20.04
    • 22.04

Role Variables

All variables that can be overridden are stored in the defaults/main.yml file. Please refer to the meta/argument_specs.yml file for a description of the available variables. Similarly, descriptions and defaults for preset variables can be found in the vars/main.yml file.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Add the Microsoft Prod repository:

---
- name: 'Setup Microsoft repository'
  hosts: all

  roles:
    - role: antmelekhin.microsoft_repository

Add the Microsoft Prod repository and install dotnet-sdk-3.1 and powershell packages:

---
- name: 'Setup Microsoft repository'
  hosts: all

  roles:
    - role: antmelekhin.microsoft_repository
      microsoft_repository_packages:
        - 'dotnet-sdk-3.1'
        - 'powershell'

Add the Microsoft Azure CLI repository and install the azure-cli package:

---
- name: 'Setup Microsoft repository'
  hosts: all

  roles:
    - role: antmelekhin.microsoft_repository
      microsoft_repository_additional_directories:
        - 'azure-cli'
      microsoft_repository_packages:
        - 'azure-cli'

License

MIT

Author Information

Melekhin Anton.