Ansible Playbook Essentials

The directory layout for roles

Roles are nothing but directories laid out in a specific manner. Roles follow predefined directory layout conventions and expect each component to be in the path meant for it.

The following is an example of a role, called Nginx:

Let's now look at the rules of the game and what each of the components in the preceding diagram is for:

• Each role contains a directory which is named after itself, for example, Nginx, with roles/ as its parent directory. Each named role directory contains one or more optional subdirectories. The most common subdirectories to be present are tasks, templates, and handlers. Each of these subdirectories ...