Ansible Role: Visual Studio Code

Role to install the Visual Studio Code IDE / text editor.

Requirements

• Ansible Core >= 2.12

• Linux Distribution

  • Debian Family

    • Ubuntu

      • Focal (20.04)
      • Jammy (22.04)

  • RedHat Family

    • Rocky Linux

      • 8

    • Fedora

      • 35

  • SUSE Family

    • openSUSE

      • 15.3

  • Note: other versions are likely to work but have not been tested.

Role Variables

The following variables will change the behavior of this role (default values are shown below):

# Visual Studio Code version number (defaults to the latest version)
visual_studio_code_version: ''

# Build (either 'stable' or 'insiders') https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/
# Ubuntu only (code-insiders isn't in Microsoft's RPM repo)
visual_studio_code_build: stable

# Mirror server for fetching the public keys and the Visual Studio Code
# installation package. The URL may include directories. The URL must not end
# with a trailing slash.
visual_studio_code_mirror: 'https://packages.microsoft.com'

# should the gpgcheck of the repo enabled?
# if true
# - for apt repo the option trusted=yes is NOT added
# - for dnf/yum the option gpgcheck is set to yes
# - for zypper the option gpgcheck is set to 1
# true is the default
# if false
# - for apt repo the option trusted=yes is added to repo definition
# - for dnf/yum the option gpgcheck is set to no
# - for zypper the option gpgcheck is set to 0
visual_studio_code_gpgcheck: true

# skip task to add repo for remote package manager
# if set to true, the task 'install VS Code repo (apt/yum/dnf/zypper)' will be skipped
# if set to false, the repo will be added, this is the default
visual_studio_code_skip_add_repo: false

# Users to install extensions for and/or write settings.json
users: []

Users are configured as follows:

users:
  - username: # Unix user name
    visual_studio_code_extensions:
      - # extension 1
      - # extension 2
    visual_studio_code_settings_overwrite: # Overwrite the settings file if it exists. Options: boolean "true" or "false" (defaults to "false").
    visual_studio_code_settings: # JSON object
    visual_studio_code_keybindings_overwrite: # Overwrite the keybindings file if it exists. Options: boolean "true" or "false" (defaults to "false").
    visual_studio_code_keybindings: # JSON array

Example Playbooks

Minimal playbook:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.visual-studio-code

Playbook with extensions installed that overwrites settings and keybindings:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.visual-studio-code
      users:
        - username: vagrant
          visual_studio_code_extensions:
            - streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
            - wholroyd.jinja
            - ms-python.python
          visual_studio_code_settings_overwrite: true
          visual_studio_code_settings: {
            "editor.rulers": [80, 100, 120],
            "editor.renderWhitespace": true,
            "files.associations": {
              "Vagrantfile": "ruby"
            }
          }
          visual_studio_code_keybindings_overwrite: true
          visual_studio_code_keybindings: [
            {
              "key":     "ctrl+'",
              "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focus"
            },
            {
              "key":     "ctrl+'",
              "command": "workbench.action.focusActiveEditorGroup",
              "when":    "terminalFocus"
            }
          ]

More Roles From GantSign

You can find more roles from GantSign on Ansible Galaxy.

Development & Testing

This project uses the following tooling:

• Molecule for orchestrating test scenarios
• Testinfra for testing the changes on the remote
• pytest the testing framework
• Tox manages Python virtual environments for linting and testing
• pip-tools for managing dependencies

A Visual Studio Code Dev Container is provided for developing and testing this role.

License

MIT

Author Information

John Freeman

GantSign Ltd. Company No. 06109112 (registered in England)