Lately I’ve run into issues with different versions of ansible (1.9 handling async better, 2.x having more modules and handling IPv6 better) and having to test playbooks and roles against different versions to make sure they work. TO make life easier I put this little function in my .bashrc to switch back and forth between ansible versions. It checks out the specified version from github if it needs to, and switches over to it (just for that terminal, not the system). Usage is straight forward ansible_switch <branch> , i.e. ansible_switch 2.1 (or whatever branch you want, here is a list of all branches).
It is currently limited to stable branches, but you can change line 6 from stable- to whatever you want (or remove the prefix completely). If you have a github account you also may want to change from https to ssh by using the git@github.com:ansible/ansible.git checkout URL.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | ansible_switch() { local version=${1:-} local srcpath="${PWD}" test -d ~/git || mkdir ~/git ; cd ~/git if [[ ! -d ansible_${version} ]] ; then git clone -b stable-${version} --recursive https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git ansible_${version} fi git pull ansible_${version} export MANPATH="${MANPATH//$HOME\/git\/ansible_?.?\/docs\/man:/}" export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH//$HOME\/git\/ansible_?.?\/lib:/}" export PATH="${PATH//$HOME\/git\/ansible_?.?\/bin:/}" source ansible_${version}/hacking/env-setup cd "${srcpath}" } |