3.3. About Ansible Roles

A role is Ansible’s way of bundling automation content as well as loading related vars, files, tasks, handlers, and other artifacts automatically by utilizing a known file structure.. Instead of creating huge playbooks with hundreds of plays, you can use roles to break the tasks apart into smaller, more discrete units of work.

You can find roles for provisioning infrastructure, deploying applications, and all of the tasks you do every day on Ansible Galaxy. Filter your search by Type and select Role. Once you find a role that you’re interested in, you can download it by using the ansible-galaxy command that comes bundled with Ansible:

ansible-galaxy install username.rolename

$ ansible-galaxy install username.rolename