Summary

Playbooks are the lifeblood of Ansible automation, providing a robust framework within which to define logical collections of tasks and handle error conditions cleanly and robustly. The addition of roles into this mix is valuable in terms of not only organizing your code but also in terms of supporting code reuse as your automation requirements grow. Ansible playbooks provide a truly complete automation solution for your technology needs.

In this chapter, you learned about the playbook framework and how to start building your own playbooks. You then learned how to organize your code into roles and design your code to effectively and efficiently support reuse. We then explored some of the more advanced playbook writing topics, such as working with conditional logic, blocks, and loops. Finally, we looked at playbook execution strategies, especially with a view to being able to debug our playbooks effectively, and we wrapped up with a look at how we can run Ansible playbooks...