Question

What is the difference between ansible playbook and roles?

Answer 1

Ansible playbook is a script file which contains all the tasks that need to be performed along with all the ingredients required to perform these tasks.

Roles are ways of automatically certain var files, tasks, and handlers based on the known file structure. 

Answer 2

Hi,

Roles:

Roles containing certain vars_files, tasks, and handlers based on which it had declared.

In general grouping of tasks or handlers will allow the sharing of roles.

Playbooks:

Playbooks are written in YAML format. YAML stands for Yet Another Markup Language.

Playbooks are one of the core features of Ansible and tell Ansible what to execute.

They are like a to-do list for Ansible that contains a list of tasks.

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