Installing NodeJS LTS for Ansible

Question

I'm looking for an appropriate Ansible Role or Ansible YAML file for installing NodeJS LTS on a Ubuntu 16.04.3 xenial system. I tried more than 10 Ansible roles from Galaxy but didn't find any of them working (throws error such as potentially dangerous to add this PPA etc..

Can anyone provide any Ansible playbook or suggest me a role to install NodeJS LTS on Ubuntu 16.04?

Answer 1

Here is the working example:

---
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: yes
  become: yes
  vars:
    NODEJS_VERSION: "8"
    ansible_distribution_release: "xenial" #trusty
  tasks:
    - name: Install the gpg key for nodejs LTS
      apt_key:
        url: "https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key"
        state: present

    - name: Install the nodejs LTS repos
      apt_repository:
        repo: "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_{{ NODEJS_VERSION }}.x {{ ansible_distribution_release }} main"
        state: present
        update_cache: yes

    - name: Install the nodejs
      apt:
        name: nodejs
        state: present

Hope it will help you