There's also a roles search path that's configurable in ansible.cfg. http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#roles-path
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:31 PM, James Cammarata <[email protected]>wrote: > You can include roles from arbitrary paths by including the full path in > the role as follows: > > roles: > - { role: /path/to/my/role } > - { role: /different/path/to/another/role } > > etc. > > When using the ansible-galaxy, it by default will save roles in the path > defined in your ansible.cfg by the variable "roles_path" (which defaults to > /etc/ansible/roles), however that is not used when the plabook looks up the > role. > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jason Harris <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Maybe there is already a setting for this and I am just missing it... >> >> With the ansible-playbook command line how do I specify the directory to >> use for the roles? >> >> Right now I have things set up sort of like follows: >> >> ourhosts.ini >> ourvariables.yml >> deploy_nyc.yml >> deploy_ams.yml >> deploy_sgp.yml >> roles/ >> common/ >> webtier/ >> monitoring/ >> fooapp/ >> >> Inside each of our deploy_nyc.yml files we target different hosts with >> different roles etc. In order not to have to remember many of the details >> of each of the scripts we might turn around and have lots of these scripts. >> Eg >> >> deploy_blogsite_nyc.yml >> deploy_fullmonitoring_sgp.yml, >> etc. >> >> In that way we just tweak these scripts with the hosts and tags and roles >> etc we want... But to do this I would like to be able to have the structure: >> >> ourhosts.ini >> ourvariables.yml >> deploy/ >> deploy_nyc.wml >> deploy_ams.yml >> deploy_sgp.yml >> roles/ >> common/ >> webtier/ >> monitoring/ >> fooapp/ >> >> And then I would like to be able to open up a command line and go >> something like: >> >> cd deploy >> ansible-playbook --inventory-file="../outhosts.ini" >> --extra-vars="../ourvariables.yml" --roles-directory="../roles" >> deploy_nyc.yml >> >> but --roles-directory doesn't exist. Does some other thing exist to do >> this? If not is this a reasonable thing to add? >> >> Thanks! >> Jason >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/9f277eae-31f4-4c39-ac6f-120940e5aecb%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/9f277eae-31f4-4c39-ac6f-120940e5aecb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAMFyvFiVcx9BoAxZ-iBCXcyr1d39Zpwu1m%3DrGN1ZjEfuFdi97A%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAMFyvFiVcx9BoAxZ-iBCXcyr1d39Zpwu1m%3DrGN1ZjEfuFdi97A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgwzmXMP8qOaSUJb0%3DxwhxF3nuY8hM8KbbfdwfmBdOgyrw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
