Build a Site
Explore how to build a site playbook in Ansible that combines existing server configuration playbooks for Nginx and IIS. Understand using import_playbook to link reusable playbooks, manage host groups properly, and centralize automation to reduce manual intervention and configuration drift.
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Your environment consists of:
- One Nginx server
- One IIS server
As changes flow through your environment, you will be required to run one of the two playbooks:
configure_iis_web_server.ymlconfigure_nginx_web_server.yml
Before you make the change, you have to decide which playbook to run. Making this decision is problematic: it requires manual intervention, and it doesn’t take advantage of Ansible’s idempotency.
Another option is to combine the two playbooks, running them both any time there is a change. What makes this operation safe is that the tasks within the playbooks are themselves idempotent. Luckily, there is a better option to use a site playbook than copying the tasks into a single monolithic playbook.
Site
Site is a term used in Ansible’s documentation to define the holistic configuration of an application, service, or environment.
It is a playbook that determines the configuration by listing the sequence of Ansible automation to run.
In this scenario, ...