As it stands now, it is difficult to write idempotent tasks for digital
ocean droplets. Digital ocean assigns new nodes a random id when they
are provisioned and that id is the only key that can be used to identify
it in subsequent runs of that play.
The workflow previously involved manual intervention:
- write a play defining a new node with no specified id
- run it, collect the randomly assigned id by hand
- modify the play to add the id by hand so future runs don't create
duplicate nodes
- perform future re-runs that check if the node exists (by its id)
- if it does exist then do nothing.
- if it does not exist, then create it and return a *new random id*
- collect the new random id by hand, modify the playbook file, and
start all over.
Its a huge pain.
The modifications in this commit allow you to use the 'hostname' as a
primary key for idempotence with digital ocean. By default, digital
ocean will let you create as many hosts with the same hostname as you
like. Here, we provide an option to constrain the user to using only
unique hostnames.
The workflow will now look like:
- write a play defining a new node with a specified hostname and
"unique_name: true""
- run it, create the new node and move on.
- re-run it, notice that a node with that hostname is already created
and move on.
The default behavior is to update_cache if changed.
If you add more then one repo, you may not want to update cache for every repo separately.
So you can now disable update_cache with this new option e.g. update_cache=no
Updating cache can also be handled using the apt module.
The EXAMPLES block here has two copies of the same docs,
one nicely formatted, the other less so.
It looks like a pass was made to clean up the docs but the old
cruftier ones were never removed.
Packages which are half-installed are not adequately represented by
the .is_installed field of the apt.package.Package object. By using the
lower-level apt_pkg.Package object (which provides the .current_state
field), we can check for a partially-installed state more accurately.
Fixes#3421
* Added in support for freebsd-style sysctl commands
* Replaced some functionality that was provided by module_common
* Simplified some logic in a couple of places (ie, not checking
a split with len() but instead limiting the split to 1)
Fixes#3380
