That is *a* way to organize (especially when first getting accustomed with
Ansible), not necessarily *the* way. Ansible allows you to fully configure
the inventory path, library path, role path, etc with either environment
variables or using ansible.cfg
If you wanted to manage your customers as separate entities but use common
roles, you could have the following setup. Just make sure you set the
roles_path in ansible.cfg.
ansible/
|-- customers
| |-- bar
| | |-- inventory
| | | |-- group_vars
| | | | `-- all
| | | `-- hosts
| | `-- site.yml
| `-- foo
| |-- inventory
| | |-- group_vars
| | | `-- all
| | `-- hosts
| `-- site.yml
`-- roles
|-- database
`-- webserver
- James
On Friday, November 21, 2014 12:51:02 PM UTC-5, Rick Kasten wrote:
>
> I'm just starting out with Ansible, and I'm trying to design my Ansible
> catalog in an efficient way for the future. My understanding is that this
> is how a directory structure should look:
>
> ansible/
> group_vars/
> host_vars/
> library/
> roles/
> host_or_inventory_file
> playbook.yml
>
> It seems to me that over time, the ansible/ directory is going to be
> flooded with hundreds of host files and playbooks, and that seems so
> inefficient and messy that I can't believe Ansible would have designed it
> that way. I am going to support hundreds of customer environments with at
> least dozens of playbooks for each customer; putting them all in the same
> directory will make that directory quite difficult to read and manage, even
> if they all run the same set of plays/playbooks.
>
> So is my understanding of this wrong here? How does everybody else do it?
> What is best practice?
>
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