Why does this exist?

[tphummel]

What are the differences between this and galaxy? Why would someone choose this over galaxy or something else?

[conrado]

@tphummel Do you publish all your roles on galaxy?

[tphummel]

@conrado I do not. i think you might be leading me to the answer. ansible-role-manager can pull from the galaxy registry, github, or any remote SCM server? Whereas galaxy only pulls from the galaxy registry?

[conrado]

I originally did imagine that, but it's not the case. You can install from source control. However version restrictions are limited

It also seems, from the code and (future) release notes https://github.com/mirskytech/ansible-role-manager/blob/906a4f5618082268ec63aacfb9b83d242998a0b3/docs/source/releasenotes.rst , there are plans for including support for modules and playbooks, which would be nice as there's no support for any of that from Ansible.

Plugins would be great too.

I'm surpised less people have hacked away at something like this. Suppose ansible is fairly new, the adoption is still low. More ancient beings probably use CFengine and Salt. I doubt many people are even using hash_behaviour=merge

[tphummel]

I've been using ansible for a little while now, but still don't have a good pattern I like for role reuse across projects. It hasn't been a big enough problem to hack on solutions personally. Nor have I really shopped around for possible solutions.

[MiLk]

At the time being, I don't see the advantage of using ansible-role-manager.

With ansible-galaxy, I can download my roles from galaxy, public git repos or private git repos.
I can specify a commit hash or a tag to get a specific version.

Modules can be embedded in a role.
Just create a library directory in your role, and all the roles used after this one will be able to use the modules.

[tphummel]

@MiLk are you happy with how ansible-galaxy handles loading dependencies of dependencies as listed in a role's meta/main.yml?

[MiLk]

Yes, no problem for the moment.