Installs Node.js on RHEL/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.
Requires the EPEL repository on RedHat/CentOS (you can install it by simply adding the geerlingguy.repo-epel
role to your playbook).
Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml
):
nodejs_version: "0.10"
The Node.js version to install. "0.10" is the default and works on all supported OSes. Other versions such as "0.12", "4.x", and "5.x" should work on the latest versions of Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS, but may be less stable on older operating systems (like CentOS 6).
nodejs_install_npm_user: "{{ ansible_ssh_user }}"
The user for whom the npm packages will be installed can be set here, this defaults to ansible_ssh_user
nodejs_npm_global_packages: []
Add a list of npm packages with a name
and (optional) version
to be installed globally. For example:
nodejs_npm_global_packages:
# Install a specific version of a package.
- name: jslint
version: 0.9.3
# Install the latest stable release of a package.
- name: node-sass
None.
- hosts: utility
vars_files:
- vars/main.yml
roles:
- geerlingguy.nodejs
Inside vars/main.yml
:
nodejs_npm_global_packages:
- name: jslint
- name: node-sass
MIT / BSD
This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.