Major upgrade (if you want)

[paulfantom]

I did a major rework of this role in my fork. Changes include:

• major change in passing restic configuration for cron jobs and restic repositories
• downgraded molecule to 1.25
• added TravisCI and molecule tests
• automatic import to ansible galaxy
• added support for older ansible version (>2.2)
• added automatic tagging with semver
• MIT license since main repo didn't have license file
• removed other installation method than downloading from github
• added support for systems other than linux and for other system architectures
• removed operating systems from supported list when they are not tested by molecule
• added centos 7 support
• upgraded restic to 0.8.1
• all variables which can be changed by user are defined in defaults/main.yml
• some changes in README file
• simplified cron template and made it more generic
• added CONTIRBUTE instructions

If you want we could merge it somehow, or not 😄

[donat-b]

That's interesting for sure.
We could contact somehow and discuss the details.

[paulfantom]

I can probably split it into smaller chunks and make PRs to your role.

[donat-b]

By the way, what made you downgrade to molecule 1.25?

[paulfantom]

Easier to configure whole CI since I have lot's of repositories (organization no. 1, organization no. 2) with this version. So it was just Ctrl+c Ctrl+v.

[paulfantom]

Truth is, we (me and company I work for - Sointeractive) needed some kind of ansible role to deploy restic in production. Following Sointeractive's internal best practices and our needs role had to have:

• full CI pipeline with idempotence testing on every platform we use
• some sort of unit tests
• versioning
• support for backblaze (add support for more backends #10)
• upgrade path - hence download and propagate #9, since this method is already tested in other roles, mainly in cloudalchemy

After quick google and ansible-galaxy search your role looked most promising, but was lacking some parts. Right now, after adding those missing parts in my fork, we are using it (forked version) in production and since you started this project I want to contribute back 😄