Ansible Roles - shekharshamra/ansible-playbooks GitHub Wiki

Ansible Roles:- Roles are ways of automatically loading certain vars_files, tasks, and handlers based on a known file structure. Grouping content by roles also allows easy sharing of roles with other users

Role Directory Structure:-

Roles expect files to be in certain directory names. Roles must include at least one of these directories, however it is perfectly fine to exclude any which are not being used. When in use, each directory must contain a main.yml file, which contains the relevant content:

tasks- contains the main list of tasks to be executed by the role.

handlers - contains handlers, which may be used by this role or even anywhere outside this role.

defaults - default variables for the role (see Variables for more information).

vars - other variables for the role (see Variables for more information).

files - contains files which can be deployed via this role.

templates - contains templates which can be deployed via this role.

meta - defines some meta data for this role. See below for more details.

Create Ansible Role Directory structure:-

[root@ansible ~]# ansible-galaxy init /etc/ansible/roles/apache --offline

• /etc/ansible/roles/apache was created successfully

[root@ansible ~]# cd /etc/ansible/roles/apache

[root@ansible apache]# ls

defaults files handlers meta README.md tasks templates tests vars