Installs go on Ubuntu (and other Linux)

Requires Ansible 2.0 or higher.

Example playbook -

#!/usr/bin/env /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
---

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    ansible_golang_install_glide: true
    ansible_golang_user: vagrant
    ansible_golang_group: vagrant
    ansible_golang_gopath: "$HOME/go"
  roles:
    - ansible_golang

• ansible_golang_user: The user that go is installed as/for. Must be defined in your playbook

• ansible_golang_group: The group that go is installed as/for. Must be defined in your playbook

• ansible_golang_user_dir: $GOPATH. Must be defined in your playbook

• ansible_golang_tar_name: The specific version you want to install from the Downloads page

• ansible_golang_tar_checksum: Checksum for the above tar from the Download Page

• ansible_golang_version_and_target: Basically what go version returns (e.g. go version go1.6.1 darwin/amd64)

• ansible_golang_download_base_url: The base URL that you get the download from - probably not something you need to touch

• ansible_golang_install_glide : Install Glide if defined

• ansible_golang_glide_download_base_url: The base URL for Glide

• ansible_golang_glide_sh_name: The executable that does the Glide installation

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BSD

Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya : @dieswaytoofast everywhere - twitter / linkedin / github