Ansible Roles

Role is a disaggregated #202204272036 which is reusable and #distributable (could be seen as a collection). It has a directory structure which includes default variables, handlers and others#, metadata (dependencies which could be fetched by 202205051149#), tasks, 202205051607#, and tests, shown as below: 

roles/
  defaults/
    main.yml
  handlers/
    main.yml
  meta/
    main.yaml
  README.md
  tasks/
    main.yml
  templates/
  tests/
    inventory/
    test.yml
  vars/
    main.yml

By default, roles module defined in #202204272036 will look into local directory to find roles. If namespace is given to a role, it will in turn find it in content sharing platform.

There are two directories that store defined 202205042134# : defaults and vars. While defaults set the default value for a variable, vars takes higher precedence if there is a duplication since variables defined in here are more specific.

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