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9. Roles: Ansible’s Packing Cubes

Shaun R Smith1   and Peter Membrey2
(1)
Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong
(2)
Kowloon, Hong Kong
 

Throughout the book, we have been building up our playbook in a manner akin to grabbing a suitcase and just tossing in all of our clothes, toiletries, and accessories wherever they may fit. That is currently fine as we have only defined a single use case to this point, web servers, but even there we are performing increasingly more ordered tasks with the risk of losing control.

If you’ve never used them, we highly recommend grabbing yourself some packing cubes before your ...

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