I’m pretty new to Ansible, I am trying to understand how Roles work.
This is my directory structure.
├── custom_role_test_play_book_2.yaml
├── library
│ └── task_two_custom_module.py
└── roles
└── test_role
├── defaults
├── meta
│ └── main.yaml
└── tasks
├── library → DOES NOT WORK !!
│ └── task_two_custom_module.py
├── main.yaml
├── task1.yaml
└── task2.yaml
main.yaml imports task1.yaml and task2.yaml.
task2.yaml makes use of a custom module named task_two_custom_module.
Here’s my question, logically it made sense to me that the module library/task_two_custom_module should be placed in the same place as the task book using it i.e. in the same place I’ve defined task2.yaml.
However it does not seem to work like that, the custom module definitions are loaded properly only when they are placed in the same directory as the playbook itself.
I’d like any advice that you can share particularly any nasty gotchas that I might run into and need to keep in mind when working with custom modules and roles.
Thanks in advance.
Dhiwakar