Ansible Roles

• Refer Here for the existing playbook.
• Refer Here for the Ansible role
• Refer Here for the changes done to convert playbook tasks, handlers, files and templates into roles
• Roles cannot execute on their own, a playbook has to call it
• Refer Here for the playbook written which calls the role

Ansible Collections

• Refer Here for official docs

Usage of Ansible in Modern CI/CD Pipelines

• In modern CI/CD Environments, Terraform (or Equivalent) creates infra adn uses Ansible to configure virtual machines one by one.
  

Ansible Vaults

• Refer Here for Ansible vaults
• Watch classroom video for example

Ansible configuration

• Ansible stores the configuration by default in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg and default hosts in /etc/ansible/hosts
• Ansible configuration values of intrest
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