Ansible Role: Seriatim

Installs Seriatim from source on Ubuntu 26.04 (x86_64 or aarch64). The role requires gathered facts and privilege escalation for its default paths and dependency installation.

Variables

seriatim_version: v1.5.0
seriatim_repository_url: https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/seriatim.git
seriatim_source_dir: /usr/local/src/seriatim
seriatim_binary_path: /usr/local/bin/seriatim
seriatim_manage_build_dependencies: true
seriatim_go_snap_channel: 1.26/stable

When seriatim_manage_build_dependencies is false, Git and /snap/bin/go must already be available. Otherwise, the role installs Git with APT and the classic Go Snap from seriatim_go_snap_channel.

The checkout is authoritative: local source changes are discarded while selecting seriatim_version. The role builds ./cmd/seriatim directly to seriatim_binary_path using /snap/bin/go, CGO_ENABLED=0, GOWORK=off, GOTOOLCHAIN=local, -trimpath, and release linker metadata. It rebuilds when the checkout changes, the binary is absent, or seriatim --version does not exactly match the selected version.

The source tree is recursively owned by root:root. The installed binary is a regular file owned by root:root with mode 0755.

Example

- hosts: seriatim_hosts
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: ansible-role-seriatim

Validation

The integration driver installs pinned collection dependencies, runs syntax checking and ansible-lint, and verifies the default release and idempotence. It also covers missing and wrong-version binaries, metadata drift without a rebuild, selection of the previous release, restoration of the default release, and platform failures before application state is created. The suite mutates only /usr/local/src/seriatim, /usr/local/bin/seriatim, and paths inside its private temporary directory, and leaves the default release installed:

tests/integration