Implementing Modern DevOps

Roles

We have been working on few Ansible playbooks, and as you can imagine, there is a lot that can be abstracted from them into generic units of work. As of now, with our current knowledge of Ansible, the best thing we can do is use a naming convention for playbooks and files so that we don't mix them, but Ansible provides a better approach to this: roles.

Think of roles as common reusable capabilities as you do with modules in software: a highly cohesive set of playbooks, variables, and resources that work together for one purpose. For example, if we are managing nginx, it makes sense to have all the related resources in a single module (role, in this case) in order to improve the reusability as well as clarity of the code.

One option ...