Learn Ansible

Common

In the previous section of this chapter, we used the ansible-galaxy init command to create the common role. This creates several folders and files; before we start editing them, let's quickly discuss what each of them is used for:

It is really only the top level we are worried about; the main.yml files are just the default YAML files that are called for each part of the role:

• README.md: This is the file used to create any documentation about the role when the role is checked into a service such as GitHub. This file will be displayed along with the folder listing whenever someone browses to the common folder.
• default: This is where ...