What should this role be renamed when migrated into a collection?

[artis3n]

I am in the process of migrating this role into an artis3n.tailscale collection. The collection will host other roles and plugins, etc. in the future around interacting with Tailscale. Some commonly requested things would be modules and roles to interact with Tailscale's management API. This role is specific to creating and managing Tailscale nodes.

This role will become artis3n.tailscale.NAME. What should name be?

One option, since this role manages nodes in your tailnet, is to call it ansible.tailscale.node. Tailscale also uses "machines" and "devices" to refer to the things connected to your tailnet. Should we use one of those terms instead? Should it just be node (or machines, or devices), or artis3n.tailscale.manage_nodes, etc.? Some other format?

[artis3n]

Writing that out, I'm now partial to artis3n.tailscale.device. Or devices? 🤔

[McSim85]

I agree with devices :)

[eric-eisenhart]

I think singular device not plural devices. The role manages a single device/host/node/server, not multiple at a time. And more consistent with roles I see in other collections, such as fedora.linux_system_roles. And one less character to type.

[abeluck]

+1 for artis3n.tailscale.device

[fredrikekre]

I think "machine", "node", and "client" are all used more frequently compared to "device"? artis3n.tailscale.client looks pretty nice IMO.

[artis3n]

I'm hoping I can find a way around it, but I may not be able to use artis3n.tailscale as the collection namespace since this role is already named that. I'll take suggestions on what to do instead 🤷

ansible/galaxy#2253

[artis3n]

Ok still fleshing things out a bit but this should be equivalent to this current role, just migrated into artis3n.tailscale.device collection role. Check it out and let me know if you experience any bugs (file issues on the new repo).

https://github.com/artis3n/ansible-collection-tailscale

https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/artis3n/tailscale/

ansible-galaxy collection install artis3n.tailscale

[artis3n]

Starting with 0.x releases of the collection so I am signaling I can still make breaking changes - e.g. rename artis3n.tailscale.device to artis3n.tailscale.machine or something else