Ansible Playbook Essentials

Running playbooks with roles

Let's now apply the refactored code to our hosts. We are going to launch only the site-wide playbook, that is, the site.yml file and then rely on the include statements and roles to do the magic:

$ ansible-playbook -i customhosts site.yml

Let's take a look at the following screenshot:

In addition to the output we saw last time, there are some new messages this time. Let's analyze those:

• Before and after, roles are applied, pre-tasks and post-tasks get triggered; this prints messages using the shell module.
• We now have the code to copy to the config and .html file for our Nginx web server.
• We also see that the handler triggers ...