Ansible Role: Narratio

Installs and configures Narratio from source on Ubuntu 26.04 (x86_64 or aarch64). The role requires gathered facts and uses task-level privilege escalation for dependencies and managed application state.

Variables

narratio_version: v2.0.0
narratio_repository_url: https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio.git
narratio_source_dir: /usr/local/src/narratio
narratio_binary_path: /usr/local/bin/narratio
narratio_manage_build_dependencies: true
narratio_go_snap_channel: 1.26/stable
narratio_go_binary: /snap/bin/go
narratio_user: narratio
narratio_group: narratio
narratio_config_path: /usr/local/etc/narratio/pipeline.yml
narratio_workspace_root: /var/lib/narratio
narratio_campaigns_root: /usr/local/share/narratio/campaigns
narratio_spool_root: /var/spool/narratio
narratio_cache_root: /var/cache/narratio

narratio_whisperx_transcribe_url is required and must be an absolute HTTP or HTTPS URL. Every other pipeline setting is optional and defaults to null:

narratio_configkit_imports: null
narratio_workspace_cleanup_after_publish: null
narratio_campaigns_default_campaign_id: null
narratio_storage_backend: null
narratio_storage_s3_bucket: null
narratio_storage_s3_root_prefix: null
narratio_storage_s3_region: null
narratio_storage_s3_endpoint: null
narratio_storage_s3_force_path_style: null
narratio_storage_s3_access_key_id: null
narratio_storage_s3_secret_access_key: null
narratio_spool_delete_audio_after_publish: null
narratio_cache_s3_audio: null
narratio_publish_enabled: null
narratio_publish_upload_run: null
narratio_publish_outputs: null
narratio_whisperx_language: null
narratio_whisperx_timeout: null
narratio_whisperx_retries: null
narratio_whisperx_retry_delay: null
narratio_whisperx_concurrency: null
narratio_seriatim_binary: null
narratio_seriatim_timeout: null
narratio_seriatim_output_schema: null
narratio_seriatim_coalesce_gap: null
narratio_seriatim_report: null
narratio_seriatim_env_overlap_word_run_gap: null
narratio_seriatim_env_overlap_word_run_reorder_window: null
narratio_seriatim_env_backchannel_max_duration: null
narratio_seriatim_env_filler_max_duration: null
narratio_audita_binary: null
narratio_audita_timeout: null
narratio_audita_llm_api_key: null
narratio_audita_modules: null
narratio_audita_base_url: null
narratio_audita_model: null
narratio_audita_total_llm_concurrency: null
narratio_audita_proposal_llm_concurrency: null
narratio_audita_validation_model: null
narratio_audita_validation_llm_concurrency: null
narratio_audita_transcript_description: null
narratio_audita_config_path: null
narratio_audita_output_schema: null
narratio_audita_work_dir_retention: null
narratio_audita_report: null
narratio_normalize_output_path: null
narratio_normalize_output_schema: null
narratio_normalize_report: null
narratio_trim_enabled: null
narratio_trim_output_path: null
narratio_trim_bounds_prompt_id: null
narratio_trim_bounds_profile_id: null
narratio_trim_bounds_transcript_input_name: null
narratio_trim_bounds_output_path: null
narratio_trim_bounds_timeout: null
narratio_trim_bounds_render_debug: null
narratio_trim_bounds_render_output_path: null
narratio_trim_seriatim_report: null
narratio_render_enabled: null
narratio_render_format: null
narratio_render_title: null
narratio_render_include_timestamps: null
narratio_render_include_segment_ids: null
narratio_render_include_metadata: null
narratio_scriptorium_binary: null
narratio_scriptorium_config_path: null
narratio_scriptorium_timeout: null
narratio_scriptorium_render_debug: null
narratio_scriptorium_artifacts: null
narratio_scriptorium_artifact_families: null
narratio_notarius_enabled: null
narratio_notarius_binary: null
narratio_notarius_config_path: null
narratio_notarius_pipeline_id: null
narratio_notarius_timeout: null
narratio_notarius_working_directory: null
narratio_notarius_references: null
narratio_notarius_outputs: null
narratio_notification_mode: null

With dependency management enabled, the role installs Git and the classic Go Snap from narratio_go_snap_channel. When disabled, Git and the executable at narratio_go_binary must already be available. The role checks out narratio_version, builds ./cmd/narratio to narratio_binary_path, and rebuilds only when the checkout changes or the binary is absent.

The narratio account owns the workspace, spool, and cache roots, which are group-writable setgid directories. The campaign registry is root:narratio and operator-readable; its content remains caller-managed. The configuration directory is root:narratio mode 0750, and the pipeline is mode 0640.

Null pipeline values and their empty parent mappings are omitted; non-null falsey values are preserved. narratio_publish_outputs, narratio_notarius_references, narratio_notarius_outputs, narratio_scriptorium_artifacts, and narratio_scriptorium_artifact_families are complete native caller values, so callers may compose them before assigning them and the role does not merge or rewrite them. Credential fields name environment variables only; credential values remain outside this role. ConfigKit imports and profile overlays are externally managed, and this role does not install the downstream applications, campaign content, or suite policy.

Example

- hosts: narratio_hosts
  roles:
    - role: ansible-role-narratio
      vars:
        narratio_whisperx_transcribe_url: https://whisperx.example.test/transcribe

Validation

The repository-local integration suite installs its pinned collection and runs syntax checking and production-profile lint. It validates a baseline managed pipeline through Narratio as its application account and requires immediate clean repeated convergence. It explicitly selects v2.0.0 and checks native version output, then combines missing-binary recovery with a caller-supplied Go executable while dependency management is disabled. A representative pipeline checks null omission, falsey values, and caller-composed native collections before native validation and a clean repeat. The suite restores the baseline deployment during cleanup.

tests/integration