Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution

Ruben Opdebeeck; Ahmed Zerouali; Coen De Roover

doi:10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00078

Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution

Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover

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Abstract

Cloud-native applications increasingly provision infrastructure resources programmatically through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts. These scripts have in turn become the subject of empirical software engineering research. However, an often-overlooked part are the software ecosystems that have grown around the IaC languages. For example, Galaxy is an ecosystem for the popular Ansible IaC language. Galaxy features a large number of so-called “roles”, which are reusable collections of Ansible code akin to libraries for general-purpose languages. In contrast to, and despite their similarities, such IaC ecosystems have enjoyed far less attention in the literature than library ecosystems for general-purpose languages.
In this data showcase paper, we present Andromeda, the first dataset capturing the Ansible Galaxy ecosystem, its roles, and their evolution. Andromeda provides structural representations of more than 125000 role versions, and upwards of 800000 concrete changes between such versions extracted from the un- derlying git repositories. Andromeda aims to provide an extensive view of the contributor side of the Galaxy ecosystem, which we hope will stimulate additional research on IaC ecosystems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), Data Showcase Track
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	580-584
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-8710-5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7281-8710-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00078
Publication status	Published - May 2021
Event	18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2021) - Virtual Duration: 17 May 2021 → 19 May 2021 Conference number: 18 https://conf.researchr.org/home/msr-2021

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Name	Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

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Conference	18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2021)
Abbreviated title	MSR
Period	17/05/21 → 19/05/21
Internet address	https://conf.researchr.org/home/msr-2021

Keywords

Infrastructure as Code
Ansible
Dataset
IaC
Meta-model

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Opdebeeck, R., Zerouali, A., & De Roover, C. (2021). Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), Data Showcase Track (pp. 580-584). [9463065] (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00078

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Opdebeeck, R , Zerouali, A & De Roover, C 2021, Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution. in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), Data Showcase Track., 9463065, Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), IEEE, pp. 580-584, 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2021), 17/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00078

Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution. / Opdebeeck, Ruben ; Zerouali, Ahmed ; De Roover, Coen.

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), Data Showcase Track. IEEE, 2021. p. 580-584 9463065 (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)).

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Opdebeeck R , Zerouali A , De Roover C. Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), Data Showcase Track. IEEE. 2021. p. 580-584. 9463065. (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)). https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00078

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