Hi Michael and others, It could be me explaining wrong, or I could be off the path, but let me try again. My site playbook is basically only used to tie roles to host groups. Those roles are specific for our infrastructure, e.g. setting up our frontend server, backend server, etc. I call those "profiles". The roles I call "states" are more like shareable components: setting up Nginx, fail2ban, etc. The dependencies follow the path: playbook -> profile role -> state roles (-> state roles).
This feels quite natural to me, but I do run into the issues I described. If this set-up is still too complex I am very interested to hear about simplifications. Regards, Joost 2014-06-06 14:25 GMT+02:00 Michael DeHaan <mich...@ansible.com>: >> >> Both profiles and states are roles, but I separate them into two roles >> directories. I then use role dependencies between profiles and states (and >> states and states). A playbook simply ties hosts to profile roles. >> >> A few thing I ran into: >> * I needed to use a trick to make sure each state role is run only once. >> See [1]. > > > Please don't try to make ansible more complex than it actually is. I'm not > even sure what a "profile" or "state role" is, and if I don't know, that's a > problem with someone interpreting ansible to be WAAAAY more complicated than > it should be. > > We're talking servers here, not programming. > > Simplify. Keep things easy. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/gqGkznqr-Ao/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgzVizm5wQo9HwpBnx6asyMPwx7hC3YMvJLYh_ioSWQ8ow%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Joost Cassee http://joost.cassee.net -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEQrH%2BeWJ-HLyeL_mKMgZj1dQW-DfAo1nRxauX-s4Wr2DkdGCA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
