How to use oVirt Ansible roles
The recent post, An Introduction to Ansible Roles, discussed the new roles that were introduced in the oVirt 4.1.6 release. This follow-up post will explain how to set up and use Ansible roles, using either Ansible Galaxy or oVirt Ansible Roles RPM.
Ansible Galaxy
To make life easier, Ansible Galaxy stores multiple Ansible roles, including oVirt Ansible roles. To install the roles, perform the next steps:
To install roles on your local machine, run the following command:
$ ansible-galaxy install ovirt.ovirt-ansible-roles
This will install your roles into directory /etc/ansible/roles/ovirt.ovirt-ansible-roles/.
By default, Ansible only searches for roles in /etc/ansible/roles/ directory and your current working directory.
To change the directories where Ansible looks for roles, modify the roles_path option of [defaults] section in ansible.cfg configuration file.
The default location of this file is in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg.
$ sed -i 's|#roles_path = /etc/ansible/roles|roles_path = /etc/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles/ovirt.ovirt-ansible-roles/roles|' /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
For more information on changing the directories where Ansible searches for roles, see the Ansible documentation pages.
Copy one of the examples from the directory /etc/ansible/roles/ovirt.ovirt-ansible-roles/examples/ into your working directory, then modify the needed variables and run the playbook.
oVirt Ansible Roles RPM
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