Homelab-ansible

Creating a proper ansible directory hopefully to follow industry standards based off of
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/tips_tricks/sample_setup.html

Command examples

To run all tasks labeled update against objects with the "common" role:

ansible-playbook -i production site.yml --tags update  

File Structure

production                # inventory file for production servers  
staging                   # inventory file for staging environment  

group_vars/  
    group1.yml             # here we assign variables to particular groups  
    group2.yml  
host_vars/  
    hostname1.yml          # here we assign variables to particular systems  
    hostname2.yml  

library/                  # if any custom modules, put them here (optional)  
module_utils/             # if any custom module_utils to support modules, put them here (optional)  
filter_plugins/           # if any custom filter plugins, put them here (optional)  

site.yml                  # main playbook  
webservers.yml            # playbook for webserver tier  
dbservers.yml             # playbook for dbserver tier  
tasks/                    # task files included from playbooks  
  webservers-extra.yml  # <-- avoids confusing playbook with task files  
roles/  
    common/               # this hierarchy represents a "role"  
      tasks/            #  
          main.yml      #  <-- tasks file can include smaller files if warranted  
      handlers/         #  
          main.yml      #  <-- handlers file  
      templates/        #  <-- files for use with the template resource  
          ntp.conf.j2   #  <------- templates end in .j2  
      files/            #  
          bar.txt       #  <-- files for use with the copy resource  
          foo.sh        #  <-- script files for use with the script resource  
      vars/             #  
          main.yml      #  <-- variables associated with this role  
      defaults/         #  
          main.yml      #  <-- default lower priority variables for this role  
      meta/             #  
          main.yml      #  <-- role dependencies and optional Galaxy info  
      library/          # roles can also include custom modules  
      module_utils/     # roles can also include custom module_utils  
      lookup_plugins/   # or other types of plugins, like lookup in this case  

webtier/              # same kind of structure as "common" was above, done for the webtier role  
monitoring/           # ""  
fooapp/               # ""