Ansible for the Absolute Beginner - Ansible Roles

The video tutorial explains the concept of roles in Ansible, drawing parallels to real-world roles like doctors and engineers. It highlights the benefits of roles in making tasks reusable and organized. The tutorial covers how to create, use, and share roles using Ansible Galaxy, and provides guidance on finding and installing roles. It emphasizes the importance of roles in simplifying automation tasks and encourages exploring existing roles in the Ansible community.

What is the primary purpose of using roles in Ansible?

• To make tasks reusable and organized

• To ensure tasks are executed faster

• To limit the number of servers

• To make tasks more complex

Which directory is used to store variables in an Ansible role?

• templates

• handlers

• vars

• tasks

Where can you find thousands of roles for various tasks in Ansible?

• Ansible Hub

• Ansible Galaxy

• Ansible Repository

• Ansible Universe

What tool does Ansible Galaxy provide to help create a role structure?

• Ansible Galaxy CREATE command

• Ansible Galaxy INIT command

• Ansible Galaxy BUILD command

• Ansible Galaxy SETUP command

How can you specify additional options to a role in a playbook?

• By using a set of tuples

• By using a list of integers

• By using an array of dictionaries

• By using an array of strings

What command is used to install a role from Ansible Galaxy?

• ansible-galaxy fetch

• ansible-galaxy install

• ansible-galaxy get

• ansible-galaxy download

What is the default location where Ansible searches for roles?

• /usr/local/ansible/roles

• /home/ansible/roles

• /etc/ansible/roles

• /var/ansible/roles