An Ansible module to recursively symlink files from one directory to another.
Originally created so that I could take a directory with all of my dotfiles and symlink to my home directory.
Why not use the the "link" state option in the Ansible file module? This would symlink the whole dotfiles directory which may not be ideal as there likely secrets and other configuration in $HOME that should not wind up symlinked in a dotfiles repo. With this module, we will create subdirectories in $HOME to match the dotfiles repo structure and then link the contents from the dotfiles repo into those directories.
- ansible (tested against 2.2.0.0)
- python (tested against 2.7)
Place the mass_symlinker.py file into your Ansible project's library/ or the path shown in your ANSIBLE_LIBRARY directory.
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
- name: Create symlinks
mass_symlinker:
src: /Users/chad/.dotfiles
dest: /Users/chad/tmp
state: present
- name: Remove symlinks
mass_symlinker:
src: /Users/username/.dotfiles
dest: /Users/username
state: absent
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