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ansible-docgen

Description

ansible-docgen generates documentation from annotated Ansible Playbooks and Roles.

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Installation

pip install ansible-docgen

or

easy_install ansible-docgen

Usage

Annotate Your Playbooks and Roles

---
# test_playbook.yml
# Author: John Doe
# Description: Install a Webserver
- name: Install Apache
  yum: name=httpd state=installed
---
# roles/appserver/tasks/main.yml
# Author: John Doe
# Description: Appserver role
- name: Copy Installer
  copy: src=installer dest=/tmp/
  tags:
    - copy-installer
- name:  Run Installer
  shell: /tmp/installer.sh
  tags:
    - run-installer

Generate Documentation from Annotation

Use -p to specify your project directory. Click the links to preview the Markup generated by ansible-docgen. Warning: This will overwrite existing README files.

ansible-docgen -p your_ansible_project

Generated Markup File your_ansible_project/rolestest/README.md

Generated Markup File your_ansible_project/roles/README.md

Generated Markup File your_ansible_project/README.md

If your current directory is your project directory just run ansible-docgen without any arguments. Warning: This will overwrite existing README files.

cd your_ansible_project && ansible-docgen

Generated Markup File otherroles/README.md

Generated Markup File roles/README.md

Generated Markup File README.md

License

ansible-docgen is released under the MIT License.

Author

David Whiteside (david@davidwhiteside.com)

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