I am in the boat of treating everything as a role.
|some_app
| |site.yml
| |roles
| | |some_app_name
| | | |vars
| | | |tasks
| | | |defaults
| | | |files
| | | |templates
Now you could, if needed, create a site.yml that would have variables to
execute, or not execute, certain roles inside of the "roles" directory.
site.yml
tasks:
- include_role:
name: some_app_1
when: some_app1_variable == "true"
- include_role:
name: some_app_2
when: some_app2_variable == "true"
This doesn't really get around your problem of having a generic location
for files/templates. Just an opinion on the "everything as a role" comment.
Happy Coding!!
On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 9:13:52 AM UTC-4, Clayton Louden wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Where do you usually put files or templates that are just used in a
> certain play but are not part of a role? Currently I do have them just
> alongside my playbooks organised by play
>
> someplay.yml
> files/
> someplay/somefile
> someotherplay/someotherfile
> templates
> someplay/sometemplate.j2
> someotherplay/someothertemplate.j2
>
> This however is a bit awkward when using it in a play since I always have
> to specify the play subfolder in files/ or templates/
>
> - name: Copy extensions.conf
> copy: src=files/someplay/extensions.conf dest=/etc/extensions.conf
>
> Now this can be easily solved by converting that particular playbook into
> a role and then just using 'templates/somethemplate.js' and
> 'files/somefile' without the 'play' subdirectory. That however has the
> side-effect that I'd have a rather stupid playbook that just includes a
> role, which I find rather annoying:
>
> - name: Configure server
> hosts: mysinglehost
> roles:
> - role: custom_configure_server_role
>
> I've heard from other ansible guys that they treat 'everything as a role'.
> Maybe it's just me but I find that opening a playbook just to find out that
> it contains just one custom role a bit redundant. How do you guys usually
> do this?
>
> Cheers!
>
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