Ansible Playbooks & Roles

Summary

Playbooks define ordered sets of tasks to run against target hosts; Roles organize related playbooks, variables, and files into reusable, shareable units — Ansible's equivalent of Terraform modules.

• 1Organize a set of related tasks from a playbook into a reusable Ansible Role.
• 2Practice using variables in a playbook to make it reusable across different environments.
• 3Explore Ansible Galaxy for community-maintained roles instead of writing everything from scratch.