installing rabbit from a deb file

playbooks/roles/rabbitmq/defaults/main.yml

@@ -28,9 +28,15 @@ rabbitmq_refresh: false
 
 rabbitmq_apt_key: "http://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc"
 rabbitmq_repository: "deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main"
+# We mirror the deb package for rabbitmq-server because
+# nodes need to be running the same version
+rabbitmq_pkg_url: "http://files.edx.org/rabbitmq_packages/rabbitmq-server_3.2.3-1_all.deb"
 rabbitmq_pkg: "rabbitmq-server"
 rabbitmq_debian_pkgs:
   - python-software-properties
+  # for installing the deb package with
+  # dependencies
+  - gdebi
 
 rabbitmq_config_dir: "/etc/rabbitmq"
 rabbitmq_cookie_dir: "/var/lib/rabbitmq"

playbooks/roles/rabbitmq/tasks/main.yml

@@ -10,10 +10,17 @@
   apt: pkg={{",".join(rabbitmq_debian_pkgs)}} state=present
 
 - name: add rabbit repository
-  apt_repository: repo="{{rabbitmq_repository}}" state=present
+  apt_repository: repo="{{rabbitmq_repository}}" state=present update_cache=yes
 
-- name: install rabbitmq
-  apt: pkg={{rabbitmq_pkg}} state=present update_cache=yes
+- name: fetch the rabbitmq server deb
+  get_url: >
+    url=http://{{ rabbitmq_pkg_url }}
+    dest=/var/tmp/{{ rabbitmq_pkg_url|basename }}
+
+- name: install rabbit package using gdebi
+  shell: >
+    gdebi --n {{ rabbitmq_pkg_url|basename }}
+    chdir=/var/tmp
 
 - name: stop rabbit cluster
   service: name=rabbitmq-server state=stopped