Golang role for Ansible

Installs Golang from source, sets up the necessary development environment, and grabs the specified packages.

Requirements

Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 Server.

Role Variables

The default variables are as follows:

go_user:       '{{ ansible_ssh_user }}'
go_user_home:  '/home/{{ go_user }}'
go_version:    '1.3'
go_clone_dir:  '{{ go_user }}/golang_src'
go_bin_dir:    '{{ go_clone_dir }}/bin'
go_path:       '{{ go_user_home }}/go_path'
app_name:      ''
use_go_env:    false
go_env:        'development'
go_env_config: 'config/development.yml'
go_global_packages:
  - 'github.com/codegangsta/gin'    # Live reloader
  - 'github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo' # Testing framework
  - 'github.com/onsi/gomega'        # Matcher for ginkgo
  - 'github.com/golang/lint/golint' # Go linter
  - 'github.com/GeertJohan/fgt'     # Go linter piped through this to return proper exit codes

Example Playbook

- hosts: 'servers'
  roles:
    - role: 'ssilab.golang'
      go_user: 'vagrant'
      go_version: '1.3'
      app_name: 'github.com/ssilab/awesome-go-app'
      use_go_env: true
      go_env: 'development'
      go_env_config: 'config/development.yml'
      go_global_packages:
        - 'github.com/codegangsta/gin'    # Live reloader
        - 'github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo' # Testing framework
        - 'github.com/onsi/gomega'        # Testing framework
        - 'github.com/golang/lint/golint' # Go linter
        - 'github.com/GeertJohan/fgt'     # Go linter piped through this to return proper exit codes

License

This playbook is provided 'as-is' under the conditions of the BSD license. No fitness for purpose is guaranteed or implied.