ComponentOne (C1) is a UI component library and the installation contains a simple installer file and after the installation the installation needs to be registered with a licece key. Each licence can only be used at one machine at a time. I needed to install this library using Ansible on the build agents. Another thing is that there are severeal build agents and there is no need to have this library on each agent, since teh number of projects using it is not that many and it is not a increasing number.
The way I solved the requrement that it not should be installed on each agent, I tagged the agent that should have this installed bit a boolean flag. Then the Ansible role required this flag to be true to execute the task. The next thing then is that I needed a way to distinct the agent with C1 and the ones that do not have C1 installed. That was done by setting an enviroment variable when the installation was complete.
The ComponentOne Ansible role have the directory structure above. In every directory (except the templates) there are a main.yaml file. In the defaults I have variables and that is the place where the licence key is placed. It would be better to have the C1 licence key on a variable that can be set on a per machine basis, but this solved what I needed in the first round. In the vars directory I have defined some other variables that are not sensitive. The definition of the tasks is below and the Powershell script as well.
- name: Gather facts to make sure all variables are up to date
setup:
tags: componentone
- name: Create Component One folder
win_file: path={{ path }} state=directory
tags: componentone
- name: Download ComponentOne
win_get_url:
url: "{{ installersource }}"
dest: "{{ path }}\\C1StudioNet_2014v1.msi"
force: no
tags: componentone
- name: Check that ComponentOne is downloaded
win_stat:
path: "{{ path }}\\C1StudioNet_2014v1.msi"
register: component1download
- name: Download ComponentOne license activator
win_get_url:
url: "{{ activationsource }}"
dest: "{{ path }}\\C1LicenseActivation_2.0.20173.93.zip"
force: no
tags: componentone
- name: Check that ComponentOne Activator is downloaded
win_stat:
path: "{{ path }}\\C1LicenseActivation_2.0.20173.93.zip"
register: component1activatordownload
- name: Unzip
win_unzip:
dest: "{{ path }}"
src: "{{ path }}\\C1LicenseActivation_2.0.20173.93.zip"
rm: True
when: component1activatordownload.stat.exists
tags: componentone
- name: Install ComponentOne MSI
win_package:
path: "{{ path }}\\C1StudioNet_2014v1.msi"
product_id: "{EF06B3EF-1453-4AE4-9370-26C7290D933D}"
arguments:
- NoLicenseVal=0
- NoLicenseValRM=0
state: present
when: component1download.stat.exists
register: c1install
tags: componentone
- name: Copy ComponentOne Activation Script
win_template: src=ActivateComponentOne.ps1 dest="{{ path }}\\ActivateComponentOne.ps1"
register: componentoneactivation
tags: componentone
- name: Activate Component One
win_shell: ".\\ActivateComponentOne.ps1 -key {{ serial_key }} -compoany {{ company }} -user {{ name }} -pathActivator {{ path }}\\C1LicenseActivation.exe"
args:
chdir: "{{ path }}"
become_user: "{{ domain_name }}\\{{ domain_user }}"
tags: componentone
- name: Set Enviroment Variable
win_environment:
state: present
name: ComponentOne
value: Installed
level: machine
register: componentoneenv
tags: componentone
- name: Rebooting if needed by update
include_role:
name: BuildAgentReboot
when: componentoneenv.before_value != "Installed"
ignore_errors: yes
tags: componentone
The activation of the C1 library is done with a Powershell script that I have in the Ansible role as a template.
param (
[string]$key = "{{ serial_key }}",
[string]$compoany = "{{ company }}",
[string]$user = "{{ name }}",
[string]$pathActivator = "{{ path }}\\C1LicenseActivation.exe"
)
&$pathActivator /as:${key} /u:${user} /c:${compoany}
#$LASTEXITCODE
Exit 0
Earlier I always installed the C1 component manually, but automating the process is so much nicer and I got more experience using Ansible.