Cleaning NGINX Management Suite repository after installation prevents nms-nap-compiler manual install

[fabriziofiorucci]

Describe the bug

After installing NGINX Management Suite on Debian/Ubuntu the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nms.list is removed through tasks/nms/remove-certs.yaml together with the NGINX license certificate and key. This makes it impossible to find & install nms-nap-compiler-*.

To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Deploy the Ansible NGINX Management Suite role using playbook.yml
2. Run apt-cache search nms-nap-compiler
3. No packages are found

Expected behavior

After installing NGINX Management Suite using this role it should be possible to apt-get install the nms-nap-compiler module without having to recreate /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nms.list

Your environment

• Ansible NGINX Management Suite role 0.3.0
• Version of Ansible: ansible [core 2.12.10]
• Target deployment platform: Ubuntu 20.04

Additional context

One potential improvement might be having the ability to specifiy one or more nms-nap-compiler versions to be installed, directly in the playbook.

[jswongF5]

You are right that I delete the NGINX Certs but I don't think I delete the license though.. I remove the certs by default mimicking the ansible-role-nginx role. I didn't make much of an issue out of this behavior because it made sense to be on the safer side so the certs can't be stolen if a host were somehow compromised.

You can bypass this behavior though.. When you run your role, you can make sure to set the following variable nms_remove_certs to false

- name: Install NMS Playbook
  tasks:
    - name: Install NMS
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: nginxinc.nginx_management_suite
      vars:
        nms_remove_certs: false

You are correct that including the ability to install nms-nap-compiler is an improvement. At the moment, this role does not do this.