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Running the role

Now that the role for installing and configuring Apache is complete, we can add it to our playbook:

---- hosts: boxes  gather_facts: true  become: yes  become_method: sudo  vars_files:    - group_vars/common.yml  roles:    - roles/common    - roles/apache

Following on from the playbook in the previous section, we can simply rerun the following command:

$ ansible-playbook -i production site.yml

This will work through the common role before executing the apache role. I have truncated the output for the common role in the playbook run here:

PLAY [boxes] ***************************************************************************************TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************************************************** ...