Ansible Role: EPEL Repository

Installs the EPEL repository (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) for RHEL/CentOS.

Requirements

This role only is needed/runs on RHEL and its derivatives.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

epel_release:
  "4": 10
  "5": 4
  "6": 8
  "7": 5

A mapping from RHEL major version to current EPEL release version.

epel_repo_url: "http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}/{{ ansible_userspace_architecture }}{{ '/' if ansible_distribution_major_version < '7' else '/e/' }}epel-release-{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}-{{ epel_release[ansible_distribution_major_version] }}.noarch.rpm"
epel_repo_gpg_key_url: "/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}"

The EPEL repo URL and GPG key URL. Generally, these should not be changed, but if this role is out of date, or if you need a very specific version, these can both be overridden.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.repo-epel }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.