Install Google Chrome on Red Hat Using Ansible

How to Install Google Chrome in RedHat-like systems with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code. I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible install Google Chrome in RedHat-like systems

• Add Google Chrome key => ansible.builtin.rpm_key
• Add Google Chrome repository => ansible.builtin.yum_repository
• Update yum cache and install Google Chrome => ansible.builtin.yum

In order to install Google Chrome on a RedHat-like system, we need to perform three different steps. The first step is to download the GPG signature key for the repository. You are going to use the ansible.builtin.rpm_key Ansible module. This encrypted key verifies the genuinity of the packages and the repository and guarantees that the software is the same as Google releases. The second step is to add the add Google Chrome repository to the distribution. It’s an extra website where yum/dnf, your distribution package manager looks like for software. You are going to use the ansible.builtin.yum_repository Ansible module. The third step is to update the yum cache for the available packages and install Google Chrome using the ansible.builtin.yum Ansible module.

Parameters

• rpm_key key string — URL
• rpm_key state string — present/absent
• yum_repository name string — repository
• yum_repository baseurl string — URL
• yum_repository gpgcheck boolean — enable GPG
• yum_repository gpgkey string — GPG check and key URL
• yum name string — name or package-specific
• yum state string — latest/present/absent
• yum update_cache boolean — no/yes

For the ansible.builtin.rpm_key Ansible module I’m going to use two parameters: “key” and “state”. The “key” parameter specifies the URL or the key ID of the repository gpg signature key and the “state” verify that is present in our system after the execution. For the ansible.builtin.yum_repository Ansible module I’m going to use four parameters: “name”, “baseurl”, “gpgcheck” and “gpgkey”. The “name” parameter specifies the repository parameters and the “baseurl” URL of it. The “gpgcheck” parameter enables the gpg verification with the URL specified in “gpgkey” parameter. For the ansible.builtin.yum Ansible module I’m going to use three parameters: “name”, “state”, and “update_cache”. The “name” parameter specifies the package name (Google Chrome in our use-case) and the “state” verify that is present in our system after the execution. Before installing the package the “update_cache” performs an update of the yum cache to ensure that the latest version of the package is going to be downloaded.

Playbook

Install Google Chrome in RedHat-like systems with Ansible Playbook.

code

• install_chrome_redhat.yml

---
- name: install Google Chrome
  hosts: all
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: Add Yum signing key
      ansible.builtin.rpm_key:
        key: https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
        state: present

    - name: Add repository into repo.d list
      ansible.builtin.yum_repository:
        name: google-chrome
        description: google-chrome repository
        baseurl: http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
        enabled: true
        gpgcheck: true
        gpgkey: https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

    - name: Install google-chrome-stable
      ansible.builtin.yum:
        name: "google-chrome-stable"
        state: latest 
        update_cache: true

execution

output

$ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory install\ chrome/redhat.yml
PLAY [install Google Chrome] **********************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************************
ok: [demo.example.com]
TASK [Add Yum signing key] ************************************************************************
changed: [demo.example.com]
TASK [Add repository into repo.d list] ************************************************************
changed: [demo.example.com]
TASK [Install google-chrome-stable] ***************************************************************
changed: [demo.example.com]
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************
demo.example.com           : ok=4    changed=3    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

verification

$ ssh [email protected]
$ sudo su -
# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 420
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   1485 Sep  4 17:28 epel-modular.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   1304 Sep  1 00:13 epel-playground.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   1564 Sep  4 17:28 epel-playground.repo.rpmnew
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   1111 Sep  1 00:13 epel.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   1422 Sep  4 17:28 epel.repo.rpmnew
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   1584 Sep  4 17:28 epel-testing-modular.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   1258 Sep  1 00:13 epel-testing.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   1521 Sep  4 17:28 epel-testing.repo.rpmnew
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    205 Oct 12 14:50 google-chrome.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 391942 Oct  8 10:54 redhat.repo
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo 
[google-chrome]
async = 1
baseurl = http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
name = google-chrome repository
# rpm -qa | grep google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable-94.0.4606.81-1.x86_64
[root@demo ~]# yum list installed google-chrome-stable
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Installed Packages
google-chrome-stable.x86_64                      94.0.4606.81-1                      @google-chrome

code with ❤️ in GitHub

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