Ansible Quick Start Guide

Using Ansible roles

For this section, we are going to use the test folder to test the new role. First, we need to set up the inventory to match our test environment:

tests/inventory:[linuxserver]node0node1node2

Then, we edit the test.yml file for the test:

tests/test,yml:- hosts: linuxserver  remote_user: setup  become: yes roles:    - samba.lab.edu

When executing the test.yml playbook, we need to add to the ansible-playbook command line the -i option and specify the tests/inventory inventory file we filled earlier. The command line should look like the following:

ansible-playbook tests/test.yml -i tests/inventory

The README.md file can contain some information about the variable of the role to help its users personalize it to their own setup. ...