Ansible Role: Go

An Ansible Role that installs Go (the language) on Linux.

Requirements

N/A

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

go_version: "1.17.3"
go_platform: linux
go_arch: amd64

Version, platform, and architecture to use when downloading Go.

go_tarball: go{{ go_version }}.{{ go_platform }}-{{ go_arch }}.tar.gz
go_download_url: https://dl.google.com/go/{{ go_tarball }}

These two variables are used to build the download URL when installing Go.

go_checksum: '550f9845451c0c94be679faf116291e7807a8d78b43149f9506c1b15eb89008c'

SHA256 checksum of the Go download. If changing the version, platform, or architecture, you will also need to update this checksum, too.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: myserver
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.go }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2021 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.