Not possible to source .bashrc with Ansible

Question

I can ssh to the remote host and do a source /home/username/.bashrc - everything works fine. However if I do:

- name: source bashrc
  sudo: no
          


        

Answer 1

The right way should be:

- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: source bashrc file
      shell: "{{ item }}"
      with_items:
         - source ~/.bashrc
         - your other command

Note: it's test in ansible 2.0.2 version

Answer 2

So command will only run executables. source per se is not an executable. (It's a builtin shell command). Is there any reason why you want to source a full environment variable?

There are other ways to include environment variables in Ansible. For example, the environment directive:

- name: My Great Playbook
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Run my command
      sudo: no
      action: command <your-command>
      environment:
          HOME: /home/myhome

Another way is to use the shell Ansible module:

- name: source bashrc
  sudo: no
  action: shell source /home/username/.bashrc && <your-command>

or

- name: source bashrc
  sudo: no   
  shell: source /home/username/.bashrc && <your-command>

In these cases, the shell instance/environment will terminate once the Ansible step is run.

Answer 3

Well I tried the listed answers but those didn't worked for me while installing ruby through rbenv. I had to source below lines from /root/.bash_profile

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin
export PATH
eval "$(rbenv init -)"

Finally, I came up with this

- shell: sudo su - root -c 'rbenv install -v {{ ruby_version }}'

One can use this with any command.

- shell: sudo su - root -c 'your command'

Answer 4

My 2 cents, i circumnavigated the problem sourcing ~/.nvm/nvm.sh into ~/.profile and then using sudo -iu as suggested in another answer.

Tried on January 2018 vs Ubuntu 16.04.5

- name: Installing Nvm 
  shell: >
    curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
  args:
    creates: "/home/{{ ansible_user }}/.nvm/nvm.sh"
  tags:
    - nodejs    

- name: Source nvm in ~/.profile
  sudo: yes
  sudo_user: "{{ ansible_user }}"
  lineinfile: >
    dest=~/.profile
    line="source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh"
    create=yes
  tags: 
    - nodejs
  register: output    

- name: Installing node 
  command: sudo -iu {{ ansible_user }} nvm install --lts
  args:
     executable: /bin/bash
  tags:
    - nodejs