Ansible Quick Start Guide

What are Ansible roles?

The ultimate configuration management scripts optimization is to convert simple playbooks into Ansible roles. This gives you the ability to make a set of configuration management tasks modular and reusable, with multiple configurations. It also means that they can be easily shared when required. Ansible roles allow several related tasks, with their variables and dependencies, to be contained in a portable framework. This framework represents the breakdown of a complex playbook into multiple simple files.

An Ansible role is composed of multiple folders, each of which contain several YAML files. By default, they have a main.yml file, but they can have more than one when needed. This is a standardized structure for all ...