Security Automation with Ansible 2

Ansible roles

While playbooks offer a great way to execute plays in a pre-defined order, there is a brilliant feature on Ansible that takes the whole idea to a completely different level. Roles are a convenient way to bundle tasks, supporting assets such as files and templates, coupled with an automatic set of search paths.

By using a concept most programmers would be familiar with, of including files and folders and ascribing what is being included, a playbook becomes infinitely more readable and understandable. Roles are basically made up of tasks, handlers, and configurations, but by adding an additional layer to how a playbook is structured, we can easily get the big picture overview as well as the low-level details. 

This allows for ...