Learning DevOps: Continuously Deliver Better Software

Creating a scaffold Playbook

Ansible Playbooks are a means to organize Ansible tasks (or Plays as they are known in the Ansible world) so that they can be applied to groups of servers. Within each Playbook, you will find a set of roles; roles contain a combination of Ansible code, variables, and potentially files and templates. These are often organized along the lines of functions such as an Apache web server or MySQL. For instance, you might have a Playbook that is used to create web applications; the web application requires a MySQL server, Apache Web server, and Tomcat server. The Playbook contains the list of tasks to be run against each server that makes up the service, and the roles contain the code that actually implements the configuration. ...