Poor man's Ansible role update

ansible_update_roles.md

"Poor man's Ansible role update" by Pedro Salgado is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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1. create a requirements.yml file

   - src: git+ssh://git@host:port/repo/myrole.git
     version: v1.0.0-1  # git tag that you want to download
     name: myrole
     scm: git
   

2. to be able to install and update the roles use the following bash script

   #!/bin/bash
   # update-roles.sh
   grep 'name:' requirements.yml | awk -F: '{print $2}' | xargs -I {} ansible-galaxy remove {}
   ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml