Ansible Playbook to install NodeJS 24.x on Ubuntu
---
- name: Install NodeJS 24.x
hosts: all
become: true
vars:
node_major_version: 24
tasks:
- name: Update apt cache
apt:
update_cache: yes
- name: Install prerequisites
apt:
name:
- ca-certificates
- curl
- gnupg
state: present
- name: Create keyrings directory
file:
path: /etc/apt/keyrings
state: directory
mode: '0755'
- name: Add NodeSource GPG key
shell: |
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg
args:
creates: /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg
- name: Add NodeSource repository
shell: |
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_{{ node_major_version }}.x nodistro main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
args:
creates: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
- name: Update apt cache
apt:
update_cache: yes
- name: Install NodeJS
apt:
name: nodejs
state: present
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