I have a bunch of services, which are built and deployed with ansible. Each service is managed by it's own team, has separate repository and they are completely independent from each other. I have some ansible roles that are the same in all of services (like installed packages, web servers and so on). Is there any way to abstract such roles for example in a different repository or some kind of package and include them as a dependency in another ansible role?
Example:
service-foo/
play.yml – includes all roles
roles/
common – the same!
db-foo
web-foo
service-bar/
play.yml – includes all roles
roles/
common – the same!
db-bar
web-bar
I want it to look like this:
role-storage?
common
service-foo/
play.yml - includes common as external dependency as well
roles/
db-foo
web-foo
service-bar/
play.yml - includes common as external dependency as well
roles/
db-bar
web-bar
It sounds like what you want to do is set up the common role as a dependency. Create the directories roles/service-foo/meta and roles/service-bar/meta and in each of those directories add a main.yml that lists the dependant role(s):
---
dependencies:
- { role: common }
common is just another role stored in your roles directory. If you want to get fancy then the dependant roles can be pulled directly from github, etc. The Ansible documentation I linked to provides all the details.