Hi,
About to write my first role-based playbook, and wanted to verify I
understand the Ansible Way before getting myself in trouble.
I need to deploy software across multiple operating systems. I want to
reuse as much as possible, such as config file templates. As a
specific example: I need to deploy zabbix-agentd across FreeBSD,
CentOS, and Ubuntu hosts. The template for the zabbix-agentd.conf file
is identical across all platforms.
It seems that the right way to do this is with roles. Have an
os-specific role for apt, yum, pkg, and suchforth, and a zabbix-agent
role that contains the config file template and the "service restart"
stuff, then to organize the playbook something like this.