Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish

© Vincent Sesto 2021

V. SestoPractical Ansiblehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6485-0_3

3. Extending Playbooks with Roles and Templates

Vincent Sesto¹  

(1)

Auckland, New Zealand

 

At the end of the last chapter, we had a quick look at how we can start to organize our playbooks to allow them to grow while still being able to keep some control over how they’re organized. We discussed how you can use import and include as part of our playbooks to use and reuse other playbooks we have created previously within new playbooks.

This may not seem too important now, but our environment only consists of two servers currently. What we need is a standard way to organize each piece of our environment so we’re able to make smaller and simpler pieces of configuration ...