ansible-role-template

A reusable Ansible role template for deploying and managing
applications/services with security best practices.

📌 Key Features

✅ Idempotent - Safe to run multiple times ✅ Security Hardened - Follows Ansible security best practices ✅ Modular - Clear separation of concerns ✅ Documented - Comprehensive README and variable documentation ✅ Tested - Includes example playbook for validation

📂 Directory Structure

ansible-role-template/
├── README.md          # This file
├── defaults/          # Default role variables
│   └── main.yml
├── handlers/          # Role handlers
│   └── main.yml
├── files/             # Static files to deploy
├── meta/              # Role metadata
│   └── main.yml
├── tasks/             # Main role tasks
│   ├── backup.yml     # Backup-related tasks
│   ├── main.yml       # Core tasks
│   └── monitoring.yml # Monitoring setup
├── templates/         # Jinja2 templates
└── vars/              # Non-overridable variables
    └── main.yml

🛠️ Development

Prerequisites

Ansible 2.12+
Python 3.8+

🔧 Configuration

Default Variables (`defaults/main.yml`)

# Default values for role variables
role_template_service_name: "default_service"
role_template_service_port: 80
role_template_backup_enabled: false
role_template_service_backup_dir: "/var/backups/{{ role_template_service_name }}"
role_template_monitoring_enabled: false

Example usage

Example Playbook (`example-playbook.yml`)

---
- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: yourorg.ansible-role-template
      vars:
        role_template_service_name: "myapp"
        role_template_service_port: 8080

3. Run the Playbook

ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini example-playbook.yml

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License
See the LICENSE file for details.

TODO

☐ refactor
☐ debug
☐ docs

README.md