community.fqcn_migration

This project, called fqcn_migration, is a set of Ansible roles designed to rename a collection and even changed its namespace. The original is refered as upstream and the targeted name as downstream. A use case for this tool would migrating a collection named play_helpers from the community namespace into the ansible one, with the name helpers.

The collection fqcn_migration takes care of the changes required, ensuring that the downstream collections is identical to the upstream, apart for the required naming changes.

How to install the fqcn_migration collection?

Like any other Ansible collection!

$ ansible-galaxy collection install community.fqcn_migration

Usage

Suppose you have an upstream collection called isawesome living in the namespace mystuff. So the fqcn of your collection is mystuff.isawesome (see what I did there?). Now, you want to generate a downstream version to deliver certified content to your customers. Your company is thisisserious and the downstream of your collection is now stuff, so the fqcn is thisisserious.stuff (yes, I'm sticking with it). The upstream collection is living in the mystuff organiation on github.com and the project is called isawesome_collection.

Here is an example playbook to use fqcn_migration to generate the downstream collection (thisisserious.stuff) from the upstream one (mystuff.isawesome):

- import_playbook: fqcn_migration.yml
  vars:
    upstream_name: isawesome
    upstream_namespace: mystuff
    downstream_name: stuff
    downstream_namespace: thisisserious

Additonal features

Galaxy links

It is possible to transforms links in galaxy.yml using the following dict:

galaxy:
  documentation: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_amq_broker
  homepage: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-amq
  repository: ...
  documentation: ...

Post-processing reverts

Sometimes the transformation applies unwanted replacements. The post_processors_replacements list can be used to revert those changes; it has the format:

post_processors_replacements:
  - match: "- amq_broker"
    replace: "- activemq"
    file: "meta/main.yml$"
  - match: "amq_broker[.]apache[.]org"
    replace: "activemq.apache.org"
    file: "README.md$"

where for each dict in the list:

• match: regular expression to lookup
• replace: text for replacing the matched string
• file: regular expression matching the file paths to operate on

Note: the the post_processors_replacements variables allow fqcn_migration user to specifiy strings that needs to be replace after the transformation process. As illustrated in the example above, the rewriting to content to match the downstream_namespace.downstream_collection_name can sometime transform content that needs to stay the same or replace differently.

MarkDown templates

It is possible to perform replacements in markdown files that are templated with:

<!--start <placeholder_string> -->
arbitrary text
<!--end <placeholder_string> -->

NOTE: placeholders can NOT be nested; in that case, the outer placeholder takes precedence.

With the downstream_placeholder_delete list(str) it is possible to delete markdown section like for instance:

downstream_placeholder_delete:
  - build_status

against:

<!--start build_status -->
[![Build Status](https://github.com/ansible-middleware/amq/workflows/CI/badge.svg?branch=main)](https://github.com/ansible-middleware/amq/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
<!--end build_status -->

will hide the github build status link and image in the generated collection.

Similarly, the downstream_placeholder_content allow to replace the contents between the placeholders with other markdown, ie:

downstream_placeholder_content:
  - placeholder: galaxy_download
    content: |
      ### Installing the Collection from Automation Hub

      Before using the collection, you need to setup Ansible Automation Hub as galaxy server; then install it via the CLI:

          ansible-galaxy collection install redhat.amq_broker

against:

<!--start galaxy_download -->
### Installing the Collection from Ansible Galaxy

    ansible-galaxy collection install middleware_automation.amq

<!--end galaxy_download -->

Will provide different instructions depending on the galaxy server used.

Collections dependency map

Sometimes while transforming a collection, it is necessary to transform its dependencies FQCN as well. It is possible to define dependency maps like follows:

upstream_downstream_collections_map:
  - { upstream_name: 'middleware_automation.common', downstream_name: 'redhat.runtimes_common' }

which will transform occurrences of middleware_automation.common to redhat.runtimes_common in tasks files, galaxy.yml and requirements.yml

License

Apache License 2.0