How to Create Ansible Roles and Use them in Playbook | Linux Today

How to Create Ansible Roles and Use them in Playbook

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James Kiarie
Mar 22, 2021

An Ansible role provides a skeleton for reusable components such as variables, modules, tasks, and facts which can be loaded onto a Playbook file.

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James Kiarie

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