roles

roles

Define automation that can be reused in multiple plays and even shared for others to use on Ansible Galaxy.

A role can define variables with defaults that can be overrided by the consumers to customize its behaviors.

Creating the namespace.name pseudo-role

You can facilitate the reuse of the role playbooks by creating a self-referencing symbolic link via running the following commands after replacing the placeholder strings in the project directory in a text terminal:

ln_opts=(
    # Create symbolic link instead of hard link
    --symbolic

    # Use relative path as link destination to prevent broken links if the hosting project's path changes
    --relative

    # Overwrite existing links
    --force

    # Increase verbosity
    --verbose
)
ln "${ln_opts[@]}" . playbooks/roles/_namespace_._name_

References

The following materials are referenced during the writing of this README:

• Roles — Ansible Community Documentation
  Explains the basic information of Roles in Ansible.
• Re-using Ansible artifacts — Ansible Community Documentation
  Explains how to reuse Ansible artifacts in general.
• Roles — Glossary — Ansible Community Documentation
  Explains the usage of the "role" Ansible term.