Ansible Role: Audita

Installs and configures Audita from source on Ubuntu 26.04 (x86_64 or aarch64). The role requires gathered facts and uses privilege escalation on tasks that install dependencies or manage root-owned application state.

Variables

audita_version: v2.0.1
audita_repository_url: https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita.git
audita_source_dir: /usr/local/src/audita
audita_binary_path: /usr/local/bin/audita
audita_manage_build_dependencies: true
audita_go_snap_channel: 1.26/stable
audita_go_binary: /snap/bin/go
audita_config_path: /usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml
audita_config_owner: root
audita_config_group: root
audita_config_directory_mode: "0755"
audita_config_file_mode: "0644"
audita_config_version: 2
audita_profiles_dir: null
# Required caller inputs: audita_backends, audita_llm_proposal_profile
audita_pipeline_modules: null
audita_output_schema: null
audita_llm_validation_profile: null
audita_llm_transient_retries: null
audita_llm_repair_attempts: null
audita_llm_operation_timeout: null
audita_validation_max_prompt_tokens: null
audita_chunking_target_sections: null
audita_chunking_max_section_tokens: null
audita_chunking_min_section_tokens: null
audita_normalization_max_segment_gap: null
audita_normalization_ellipsis_gap: null
audita_normalization_max_segment_duration: null
audita_normalization_max_segment_tokens: null
audita_thresholds_glossary: null
audita_thresholds_homophones: null
audita_thresholds_spoken_word: null
audita_thresholds_grammar: null
audita_context_description: null
audita_reporting_enabled: null
audita_reporting_stdout_dir: null
audita_diagnostics_debug: null
audita_diagnostics_work_dir: null

When audita_manage_build_dependencies is false, Git and the executable selected by audita_go_binary must already be available. Otherwise, the role installs Git with APT and the classic Go Snap from audita_go_snap_channel.

The checkout is authoritative: local source changes are discarded while selecting audita_version. The role builds Audita directly to audita_binary_path using audita_go_binary, CGO_ENABLED=0, GOWORK=off, GOTOOLCHAIN=local, -trimpath, and release linker metadata. It rebuilds when the checkout changes or the binary is absent. The source tree is recursively owned by root:root; the binary is root:root mode 0755.

The configuration variables map directly to Audita's version-2 YAML fields. audita_backends and audita_llm_proposal_profile are required caller inputs; the role has no defaults for them. Callers own the selected PromptKit profile files. Every optional variable defaults to null; null values and their empty parent sections are omitted, allowing Audita to retain ownership of its built-in defaults. audita_config_version always renders as version and defaults to 2. The role manages audita_config_path | dirname and the resulting file with the audita_config_owner, audita_config_group, audita_config_directory_mode, and audita_config_file_mode inputs. The standalone defaults are root:root, directory mode 0755, and file mode 0644. Composing roles may override these generic configuration inputs for their own deployment policy.

Backend credential references name environment variables; they must never contain secret values. The repository-local integration suite validates the rendered file with Audita rather than executing the CLI during production convergence.

Example

- hosts: audita_hosts
  roles:
    - role: ansible-role-audita
      vars:
        audita_backends:
          local:
            endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1
            credential: null
        audita_llm_proposal_profile: local-proposal

The caller supplies profiles/local-proposal.yaml beside the managed configuration before invoking Audita.

Validation

The integration driver installs pinned collection dependencies, runs syntax checking and ansible-lint, validates a caller-supplied local configuration and profile offline, and requires clean repeated convergence. It also tests a caller-supplied Go executable with dependency management disabled after removing the managed binary. On a fresh host, the role may install Git through APT and the Go Snap. The test uses a private temporary configuration and profile root; the role still manages the local source checkout and binary. Cleanup removes only the private fixture root:

tests/integration