June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
9h 52m
English
No section on Ansible roles would be complete without a mention of Ansible Galaxy. Ansible Galaxy is a community-driven collection of Ansible roles, hosted by Ansible at https://galaxy.ansible.com/. It contains a great many community-contributed Ansible roles, and if you can conceive of an automation task, there is a good chance someone has already written a role to do exactly what you want it to do. It is well worth exploring and can get your automation project off the ground quickly as you can start work with a set of ready-made roles.
In addition to the web site, the ansible-galaxy client is included in Ansible, and this provides a quick and convenient way for you to download and deploy roles into your playbook structure. ...