ans202_roleconversion.md

Playbook to Role Conversion

Below you will find a familiar looking playbook. YOUR GOAL is to:

• Convert the playbook below into a role
• Call your newly created role from a second playbook.

1. Create a directory for your role to be stored in.

   student@bchd:~$ mkdir -p ~/galaxy/roles/

2. Create your new role's directory structure.

   student@bchd:~$ ansible-galaxy init ~/galaxy/roles/challenge

3. Move into your new role.

   student@bchd:~$ cd ~/galaxy/roles/challenge

4. If you haven't yet, install the tree application, it can really help!

   student@bchd:~/galaxy/roles/challenge$ sudo apt install tree -y

5. Use the tree application to get a better visual of the role you created.

   student@bchd:~/galaxy/roles/challenge$ tree

6. Update your ansible.cfg file so that it knows to look in this directory to find/use your role!

   student@bchd:~/galaxy/roles/challenge$ echo -e "\nroles_path=~/galaxy/roles/" >> ~/.ansible.cfg

CONVERT THE FOLLOWING INTO A ROLE!

---
- name: DellEMC PowerEdge - Making contact with DellEMC PowerEdge
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
          idrac_ip: "10.0.0.89"
          idrac_user: "root"
          idrac_password: "r0gerwilc0"
  tasks:
        - name: Poll iDRAC lifecycle status
          dellemc.openmanage.idrac_lifecycle_controller_status_info:
                  validate_certs: False        # in production, turn this to True
                  idrac_ip: "{{ idrac_ip }}"
                  idrac_user: "{{ idrac_user }}"
                  idrac_password: "{{ idrac_password }}"
          register: results

        - name: Display the information collected on the Lifecycle Controller
          debug:
                  var: results

Call your new role like so:

- name: DellEMC PowerEdge - Making contact with DellEMC PowerEdge
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no

  roles:
    - challenge