tasks, roles and modules: how best to compose functionality?

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i’m just getting started with Ansible, and would appreciate some help on how best to compose functionality with tasks, roles and modules.

i’m thinking of a basic structure that i imagine is somewhat common, where

  • hosts have projects

  • projects have github repos

  • github repos have git module tasks that actually clone the repo
    some pseudo code:

some-project
github_repo:
owner: nrser
name: some-project

github_repo

git:
repo: git@github.com:{{ owner }}/{{ name }}
dest: "{{ gh_root }}/{{ owner }}/{{ name }}

how should i accomplish this in Ansible? should some-project and github_repo be tasks, roles…?

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Have a look at 'parameterized roles' at :

    http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html#roles