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Ansible is a powerful agentless automation platform that simplifies IT application infrastructure management through playbooks written in YAML. It enables orchestration, configuration management, and application deployment across various technologies without requiring special coding skills. With extensive community support, thousands of contributors, and numerous modules, Ansible facilitates efficient and secure automation across diverse environments.

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Introduction to Ansible 1
What is Ansible? It's a simple automation language that can perfectly describe an IT application infrastructure in Ansible Playbooks. It's an automation engine that runs Ansible Playbooks. Ansible is an automation platform: ● Playbooks make up the automation language ● The code base is the automation engine. ● Ansible Tower manages existing automation
Community THE MOST POPULAR OPEN-SOURCE AUTOMATION COMMUNITY ON GITHUB ● 33,500+ stars & 11,000+ forks on GitHub ● 3,300+ GitHub Contributors ● Over 3000 modules shipped with Ansible ● New contributors added every day ● 1,500+ users on IRC channel ● Top 10 open source projects in 2017 ● World-wide meetups taking place every week ● Ansible Galaxy: over 18,000 subscribers ● 500,000+ downloads a month ● AnsibleFests in Austin, NYC, SF, London http://ansible.com/community
Why Ansible? What Sets Ansible Apart? SIMPLE POWERFUL AGENTLESS Human readable automation App deployment Agentless architecture No special coding skills needed Configuration management Uses OpenSSH & WinRM Tasks executed in order Workflow orchestration No agents to exploit or update Usable by every team Network automation Get started immediately Get productive quickly Orchestrate the app lifecycle More efficient & more secure
WHAT CAN I DO USING ANSIBLE? Orchestration Automate the deployment and management of your entire IT footprint. Do this... Firewalls Configuration Management Application Deployment Provisioning Continuous Delivery Security and Compliance On these... Load Balancers Applications Containers Clouds Servers Infrastructure Storage And more... Network Devices
CLOUD VIRT & CONTAINER WINDOWS NETWORK DEVOPS MONITORING ANSIBLE AUTOMATES TECHNOLOGIES YOU USE Time to automate is measured in minutes Docker VMwar e RHV OpenStack OpenShift +more ACLs Files Package s IIS Regedits Shares Services Configs Users Domains +more Arista A10 Cumulus Bigswitch Cisco Cumulus Dell F5 Juniper Palo Alto OpenSwitch +more Jira GitHub Vagrant Jenkins Bamboo Atlassian Subversion Slack Hipchat +more Dynatrace Airbrake BigPanda Datadog LogicMonitor Nagios New Relic PagerDuty Sensu StackDriver Zabbix +more STORAGE NetApp Red Hat Storage Infinidat +more AWS Azure Digital Ocean Google OpenStack Rackspace +more OPERATING SYSTEMS RHEL and Linux UNIX Windows +more
Installing Ansible # you will need the extras repo configured on RHEL, # along with the Ansible Engine repository on RHEL 7 $ sudo yum install ansible # Ansible can be installed via “pip”, the Python # package manager $ sudo pip install ansible # you will need the PPA repo configured on # Debian or Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install ansible
ANSIBLE AUTOMATION ENGINE CMDB USERS INVENTORY HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES PLUGINS CLI MODULES ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD
CMDB USERS INVENTORY HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES PLUGINS CLI MODULES ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD ANSIBLE AUTOMATION ENGINE PLAYBOOKS ARE WRITTEN IN YAML Tasks are executed sequentially Invoke Ansible modules
CMDB USERS INVENTORY HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES PLUGINS CLI ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD If Ansible is an engine the modules are the tools in the toolkit ANSIBLE Python, Powershell, or any language Extend Ansible simplicity to the entire stack MODULES CORE NETWORK COMMUNITY
CMDB USERS INVENTORY HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES CLI ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PLUGINS ARE “GEARS IN THE ENGINE” Code that plugs into the core engine MODULES PLUGINS
CMDB USERS HOSTS NETWORK ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD MODULES PLUGINS INVENTORY INVENTORY [web] ANSIBLE AUTOMATION EwNeGbIsNeErver1 .example.com webserver2.example.com [db] dbserver1.example.com CLI [switches] leaf01.internal.com leaf02.internal.com [firewalls] checkpoint01.internDaEVlI. CcESom [lb] f5-01.internal.com
ANSIBLE AUTOMATION ENGINE USERS NETWORK DEVICES PLAYBOOK INVENTORY PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD CLOUD RH OpenStack, RH Satellite, VMWare AAWS, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, Azure CMDB ServiceNow, Cobbler, BMC,Custom cmdb CMDB
ANSIBLE AUTOMATION ENGINE USERS CLI PLAYBOOK INVENTORY PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD CMDB HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES MODULES PLUGINS AUTOMATE EVERYTHING ARHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Cisco routers, Arista switches, Juniper routers, Windows hosts, Checkpoint firewalls and more
Modules Modules are bits of code transferred to the target system and executed to satisfy the task declaration. ● apt/yum ● copy ● file ● get_url ● git ● ping ● debug ● service ● synchronize ● template ● uri ● user ● wait_for ● assert
1 6 docs.ansible.com
Modules: Run Commands If Ansible doesn't have a module that suits your needs there are the “run command” modules: ● command: Takes the command and executes it on the host. The most secure and predictable. ● shell: Executes through a shell like /bin/sh so you can use pipes etc. Be careful. ● script: Runs a local script on a remote node after transferring it. ● raw: Executes a command without going through the Ansible module subsystem. NOTE: Unlike standard modules, run commands have no concept of desired state and should only be used as a last resort.
Inventory Inventory is a collection of hosts (nodes) with associated data and groupings that Ansible can connect and manage. ● Hosts (nodes) ● Groups ● Inventory-specific data (variables) ● Static or dynamic sources
Static Inventory Example 10.42.0.2 10.42.0.6 10.42.0.7 10.42.0.8 10.42.0.100 host.example.com
Static Inventory Example [control] tower ansible_host=10.42.0.2 [web] node-[1:3] ansible_host=10.42.0.[6:8] [haproxy] haproxy ansible_host=10.42.0.100 [all:vars] ansible_user=vagrant ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
Use a single source of truth if you have it -- even if you have multiple sources, Ansible can unify them. ● Stay in sync automatically ● Reduce human error INVENTORY 2 1 PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD CMDB
Ad-Hoc Commands An ad-hoc command is a single Ansible task to perform quickly, but don’t want to save for later.
Ad-Hoc Commands # check all my inventory hosts are ready to be # managed by Ansible $ ansible all -m ping # collect and display the discovered facts # for the localhost $ ansible localhost -m setup # run the uptime command on all hosts in the # web group $ ansible web -m command -a "uptime"
Sidebar: Discovered Facts Facts are bits of information derived from examining a host systems that are stored as variables for later use in a play. $ ansible localhost -m setup localhost | success >> { "ansible_facts": { "ansible_default_ipv4": { "address": "192.168.1.37", "alias": "wlan0", "gateway": "192.168.1.1", "interface": "wlan0", "macaddress": "c4:85:08:3b:a9:16", "mtu": 1500, "netmask": "255.255.255.0", "network": "192.168.1.0", "type": "ether" },
Variables Ansible can work with metadata from various sources and manage their context in the form of variables. ● Command line parameters ● Plays and tasks ● Files ● Inventory ● Discovered facts ● Roles
Variable Precedence The order in which the same variable from different sources will override each other. ● extra vars ● task vars (only for the task) ● block vars (only for tasks in block) ● role and include vars ● play vars_files ● play vars_prompt ● play vars ● set_facts ● registered vars ● host facts ● playbook host_vars ● playbook group_vars ● Inventory host_vars ● inventory group_vars ● inventory vars ● role defaults
Tasks Tasks are the application of a module to perform a specific unit of work. ● file: A directory should exist ● yum: A package should be installed ● service: A service should be running ● template: Render a configuration file from a template ● get_url: Fetch an archive file from a URL ● git: Clone a source code repository
Example Tasks in a Play tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: restart httpd service: name: httpd state: restarted
Handler Tasks Handlers are special tasks that run at the end of a play if notified by another task when a change occurs. If a package gets installed or updated, notify a service restart task that it needs to run.
Example Handler Task in a Play tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest notify: restart httpd - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ handlers: - name: restart httpd service: name: httpd state: restarted
Plays & Playbooks Plays are ordered sets of tasks to execute against host selections from your inventory. A playbook is a file containing one or more plays.
Playbook Example --- - name: install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest:/var/www/html/ - name: start httpd service: name: httpd state: started
Human-Meaningful Naming --- - name: install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
Host Selector --- - name: install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
Privilege Escalation --- - name: install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
Play Variables --- - name: install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
Tasks --- - name: install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
Role s Roles are a packages of closely related Ansible content that can be shared more easily than plays alone. ● Improves readability and maintainability of complex plays ● Eases sharing, reuse and standardization of automation processes ● Enables Ansible content to exist independently of playbooks, projects -- even organizations ● Provides functional conveniences such as file path resolution and default values
Project with Embedded Roles Example site.yml roles/ common/ files/ templates/ tasks/ handlers/ vars/ defaults/ meta/ apache/ files/ templates/ tasks/ handlers/ vars/ defaults/ meta/
Project with Embedded Roles Example # site.yml --- - hosts: web roles: - common - apache
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Intro to-ansible-sep7-meetup

  • 1.
  • 2.
    What is Ansible? It'sa simple automation language that can perfectly describe an IT application infrastructure in Ansible Playbooks. It's an automation engine that runs Ansible Playbooks. Ansible is an automation platform: ● Playbooks make up the automation language ● The code base is the automation engine. ● Ansible Tower manages existing automation
  • 3.
    Community THE MOST POPULAROPEN-SOURCE AUTOMATION COMMUNITY ON GITHUB ● 33,500+ stars & 11,000+ forks on GitHub ● 3,300+ GitHub Contributors ● Over 3000 modules shipped with Ansible ● New contributors added every day ● 1,500+ users on IRC channel ● Top 10 open source projects in 2017 ● World-wide meetups taking place every week ● Ansible Galaxy: over 18,000 subscribers ● 500,000+ downloads a month ● AnsibleFests in Austin, NYC, SF, London http://ansible.com/community
  • 4.
    Why Ansible? WhatSets Ansible Apart? SIMPLE POWERFUL AGENTLESS Human readable automation App deployment Agentless architecture No special coding skills needed Configuration management Uses OpenSSH & WinRM Tasks executed in order Workflow orchestration No agents to exploit or update Usable by every team Network automation Get started immediately Get productive quickly Orchestrate the app lifecycle More efficient & more secure
  • 5.
    WHAT CAN IDO USING ANSIBLE? Orchestration Automate the deployment and management of your entire IT footprint. Do this... Firewalls Configuration Management Application Deployment Provisioning Continuous Delivery Security and Compliance On these... Load Balancers Applications Containers Clouds Servers Infrastructure Storage And more... Network Devices
  • 6.
    CLOUD VIRT &CONTAINER WINDOWS NETWORK DEVOPS MONITORING ANSIBLE AUTOMATES TECHNOLOGIES YOU USE Time to automate is measured in minutes Docker VMwar e RHV OpenStack OpenShift +more ACLs Files Package s IIS Regedits Shares Services Configs Users Domains +more Arista A10 Cumulus Bigswitch Cisco Cumulus Dell F5 Juniper Palo Alto OpenSwitch +more Jira GitHub Vagrant Jenkins Bamboo Atlassian Subversion Slack Hipchat +more Dynatrace Airbrake BigPanda Datadog LogicMonitor Nagios New Relic PagerDuty Sensu StackDriver Zabbix +more STORAGE NetApp Red Hat Storage Infinidat +more AWS Azure Digital Ocean Google OpenStack Rackspace +more OPERATING SYSTEMS RHEL and Linux UNIX Windows +more
  • 7.
    Installing Ansible # youwill need the extras repo configured on RHEL, # along with the Ansible Engine repository on RHEL 7 $ sudo yum install ansible # Ansible can be installed via “pip”, the Python # package manager $ sudo pip install ansible # you will need the PPA repo configured on # Debian or Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install ansible
  • 8.
  • 9.
    CMDB USERS INVENTORY HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES PLUGINS CLI MODULES ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC/ PRIVATE CLOUD ANSIBLE AUTOMATION ENGINE PLAYBOOKS ARE WRITTEN IN YAML Tasks are executed sequentially Invoke Ansible modules
  • 10.
    CMDB USERS INVENTORY HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES PLUGINS CLI ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC/ PRIVATE CLOUD If Ansible is an engine the modules are the tools in the toolkit ANSIBLE Python, Powershell, or any language Extend Ansible simplicity to the entire stack MODULES CORE NETWORK COMMUNITY
  • 11.
    CMDB USERS INVENTORY HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES CLI ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC/ PRIVATE CLOUD PLUGINS ARE “GEARS IN THE ENGINE” Code that plugs into the core engine MODULES PLUGINS
  • 12.
    CMDB USERS HOSTS NETWORK ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC/ PRIVATE CLOUD MODULES PLUGINS INVENTORY INVENTORY [web] ANSIBLE AUTOMATION EwNeGbIsNeErver1 .example.com webserver2.example.com [db] dbserver1.example.com CLI [switches] leaf01.internal.com leaf02.internal.com [firewalls] checkpoint01.internDaEVlI. CcESom [lb] f5-01.internal.com
  • 13.
    ANSIBLE AUTOMATION ENGINE USERS NETWORK DEVICES PLAYBOOK INVENTORY PUBLIC/ PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD CLOUD RH OpenStack, RH Satellite, VMWare AAWS, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, Azure CMDB ServiceNow, Cobbler, BMC,Custom cmdb CMDB
  • 14.
    ANSIBLE AUTOMATION ENGINE USERS CLI PLAYBOOK INVENTORY PUBLIC/ PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD CMDB HOSTS NETWORK DEVICES MODULES PLUGINS AUTOMATE EVERYTHING ARHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Cisco routers, Arista switches, Juniper routers, Windows hosts, Checkpoint firewalls and more
  • 15.
    Modules Modules are bitsof code transferred to the target system and executed to satisfy the task declaration. ● apt/yum ● copy ● file ● get_url ● git ● ping ● debug ● service ● synchronize ● template ● uri ● user ● wait_for ● assert
  • 16.
  • 17.
    Modules: Run Commands IfAnsible doesn't have a module that suits your needs there are the “run command” modules: ● command: Takes the command and executes it on the host. The most secure and predictable. ● shell: Executes through a shell like /bin/sh so you can use pipes etc. Be careful. ● script: Runs a local script on a remote node after transferring it. ● raw: Executes a command without going through the Ansible module subsystem. NOTE: Unlike standard modules, run commands have no concept of desired state and should only be used as a last resort.
  • 18.
    Inventory Inventory is acollection of hosts (nodes) with associated data and groupings that Ansible can connect and manage. ● Hosts (nodes) ● Groups ● Inventory-specific data (variables) ● Static or dynamic sources
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    Static Inventory Example [control] toweransible_host=10.42.0.2 [web] node-[1:3] ansible_host=10.42.0.[6:8] [haproxy] haproxy ansible_host=10.42.0.100 [all:vars] ansible_user=vagrant ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
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    Use a singlesource of truth if you have it -- even if you have multiple sources, Ansible can unify them. ● Stay in sync automatically ● Reduce human error INVENTORY 2 1 PUBLIC / PRIVATE CLOUD CMDB
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    Ad-Hoc Commands An ad-hoccommand is a single Ansible task to perform quickly, but don’t want to save for later.
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    Ad-Hoc Commands # checkall my inventory hosts are ready to be # managed by Ansible $ ansible all -m ping # collect and display the discovered facts # for the localhost $ ansible localhost -m setup # run the uptime command on all hosts in the # web group $ ansible web -m command -a "uptime"
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    Sidebar: Discovered Facts Factsare bits of information derived from examining a host systems that are stored as variables for later use in a play. $ ansible localhost -m setup localhost | success >> { "ansible_facts": { "ansible_default_ipv4": { "address": "192.168.1.37", "alias": "wlan0", "gateway": "192.168.1.1", "interface": "wlan0", "macaddress": "c4:85:08:3b:a9:16", "mtu": 1500, "netmask": "255.255.255.0", "network": "192.168.1.0", "type": "ether" },
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    Variables Ansible can workwith metadata from various sources and manage their context in the form of variables. ● Command line parameters ● Plays and tasks ● Files ● Inventory ● Discovered facts ● Roles
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    Variable Precedence The orderin which the same variable from different sources will override each other. ● extra vars ● task vars (only for the task) ● block vars (only for tasks in block) ● role and include vars ● play vars_files ● play vars_prompt ● play vars ● set_facts ● registered vars ● host facts ● playbook host_vars ● playbook group_vars ● Inventory host_vars ● inventory group_vars ● inventory vars ● role defaults
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    Tasks Tasks are theapplication of a module to perform a specific unit of work. ● file: A directory should exist ● yum: A package should be installed ● service: A service should be running ● template: Render a configuration file from a template ● get_url: Fetch an archive file from a URL ● git: Clone a source code repository
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    Example Tasks ina Play tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: restart httpd service: name: httpd state: restarted
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    Handler Tasks Handlers arespecial tasks that run at the end of a play if notified by another task when a change occurs. If a package gets installed or updated, notify a service restart task that it needs to run.
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    Example Handler Taskin a Play tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest notify: restart httpd - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ handlers: - name: restart httpd service: name: httpd state: restarted
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    Plays & Playbooks Playsare ordered sets of tasks to execute against host selections from your inventory. A playbook is a file containing one or more plays.
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    Playbook Example --- - name:install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest:/var/www/html/ - name: start httpd service: name: httpd state: started
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    Human-Meaningful Naming --- - name:install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
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    Host Selector --- - name:install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
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    Privilege Escalation --- - name:install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
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    Play Variables --- - name:install and start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
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    Tasks --- - name: installand start apache hosts: web become: yes vars: http_port: 80 tasks: - name: httpd package is present yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: latest index.html file is present copy: src: files/index.html dest: /var/www/html/ - name: httpd is started service: name: httpd state: started
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    Role s Roles are apackages of closely related Ansible content that can be shared more easily than plays alone. ● Improves readability and maintainability of complex plays ● Eases sharing, reuse and standardization of automation processes ● Enables Ansible content to exist independently of playbooks, projects -- even organizations ● Provides functional conveniences such as file path resolution and default values
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    Project with EmbeddedRoles Example site.yml roles/ common/ files/ templates/ tasks/ handlers/ vars/ defaults/ meta/ apache/ files/ templates/ tasks/ handlers/ vars/ defaults/ meta/
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    Project with EmbeddedRoles Example # site.yml --- - hosts: web roles: - common - apache
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