Yes, that was me, LOL. Even a single playbook can be "parameterized" to use variables you supply via command line or a vars file. That offers reuse.
Walter -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123 On May 12, 2023, at 11:54 AM, Kevin Knox <kevin.knox....@gmail.com> wrote: Hmmm. My reply did not post. Maybe I replied to the user? Anyway, my vote is to consider "roles" to be an enhancement. I have to be very certain I'm going to reuse the role before I will create it. If I'm not sure, then I call the creation of a role "gold plating" and unnecessary. So, I will create a straight playbook if there's any doubt in my mind about whether this is a reusable task. That does mean when the time comes to reuse the tasks that would be in the role, I need to refactor the original play to role-ify it, but that's pretty light work. I'd rather be certain I don't gold plate any plays than end up with a bunch of single-use roles cluttering my project. On Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 12:12:49 PM UTC-4 Rowe, Walter P. (Fed) wrote: I agree with Dick. Is this something you will do over and over so taking the time makes sense? Or is this a once-and-done task? Also look at the tools VMware offers. Ansible isn't always the right solution. Walter -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123<tel:(202)%20355-4123> On May 10, 2023, at 11:38 AM, Dick Visser <dnmv...@gmail.com> wrote: If you just want the quickest option then go for a playbook. If you can spend some time on this then you could create a role that is meant for patching ESX hosts, and that includes helper tasks to handle the maintenance mode and the reboot. Endless possibilities to do this, from quick and dirty to nicely parametrised On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 17:29, Tony Wong <tdub...@gmail.com> wrote: I got a few tasks i need to do on esxi host 1. put in maintenace mode 2. copy vib from my laptop to the the host shared datastore 3. install the patch esxcli softare vib install -d /path/xxx.zip 4. reboot the host 5. take it out of maintenance mode do i create roles for these or single playbook? -- 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-proje...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/c8b949a8-2024-43eb-9d46-61eead48e170n%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/c8b949a8-2024-43eb-9d46-61eead48e170n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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-proje...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAF8BbLaiFAKhAOWbcrbZXgZkfg66pFNMkan8Z8gfL7oXWQBY9Q%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAF8BbLaiFAKhAOWbcrbZXgZkfg66pFNMkan8Z8gfL7oXWQBY9Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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<mailto:ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/9436cbdd-ab27-46f8-9e1e-8415c2db802an%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/9436cbdd-ab27-46f8-9e1e-8415c2db802an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/E6A9B1F6-E466-4580-BB95-C18A2DDB944D%40nist.gov.
