Ansible Role: kubectl

Ansible role for installing kubectl.

Requirements

This role has been tested on Ansible 2.7.0+ against the following Linux Distributions:

• Amazon Linux 2
• CentOS 8
• CentOS 7
• Debian 10
• Fedora 29
• Fedora 30
• Fedora 31
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Disclaimer

If you have any problems please create a GitHub issue, I maintain this role in my spare time so I cannot promise a speedy fix delivery.

Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default Value
kubectl_version	Use a specific version of kubectl, eg. 1.17.0. Specify false for latest.	false
kubectl_install_os_dependencies	Allow role to install OS dependencies.	false
kubectl_install_dir	Installation directory for kubectl.	$HOME/bin
kubectl_projects_dir	Directory to put k8s projects. Specify false to skip.	$HOME/projects
kubectl_projects	List of K8s projects to be cloned with git. See notes.	NULL

Dependencies

No dependencies on other roles.

Example Playbook

Example playbook for installing to single user:

- hosts: control_hosts
  roles:
     - { role: xanmanning.kubectl, kubectl_version: 1.17.0 }

Example playbook for installing the latest kubectl version globally:

---
- hosts: control_hosts
  become: true
  vars:
    kubectl_install_os_dependencies: true
    kubectl_install_dir: /opt/kubectl/bin
    kubectl_projects_dir: /opt/kubectl/projects
  roles:
    - role: xanmanning.kubectl

Note about kubectl_projects

This is a list of git repositories to be cloned into the projects directory. If this is empty, no projects will be cloned.

Below is an example of a project:

kubectl_projects:
    - name: kubernetes-examples                       # Directory name to clone into
      repo: [email protected]:kubernetes/examples        # Repository to clone
      update_repo: true                               # Always update local copy of repo
      version:  master                                # Check out this version of the repo
      force: false                                    # Discard any existing working copy of the repo
      key_file: "{{ ansible_user_dir }}/.ssh/id_rsa"  # Key file to use to clone the repo
      recursive: true                                 # Include submodules in clone

License

BSD 3-clause

Author Information

Xan Manning