September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
214 pages
5h 53m
English
From the user's perspective, setting up roles within the Ansible control machine may cause a few issues that are mainly related either to not having the permissions required to access the role or to the role malfunctioning. The cause of most of those errors is how Ansible is installed. The default Ansible installation puts all its configuration files, inventory, roles, and variables in a root-owned folder (/etc/ansible). Using it as a normal user may, therefore, cause a few issues. This is why we always recommend having a user-personalized Ansible configuration file that points to the folders that the user has access to. Installing a role requires the creation of multiple folders and files; if this is not ...
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