From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 3 Managing Systems with Ansible
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Understanding RHEL System Roles
From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 3 Managing Systems with Ansible
Understanding RHEL System Roles
- [Grant] It is not necessary to create Ansible roles for every situation from scratch. Red Hat has created roles for helping to manage services and has included them as an installable package called rhel-system-roles. Red Hat started including Ansible system roles in Enterprise Linux 7.4 as a technology preview, and they became a supported feature in Enterprise Linux 7.6. If you are a Red Hat customer and use our satellite web interface to manage your host, you can use the rhel System Roles Powered by Ansible using that interface. Or you can use the command line, which we'll outline in this course. The beauty of using Ansible roles is that they can be OS agnostic, as I've mentioned before. So one role can be used to manage configurations on multiple distributions. They can even be useful if you only use one distribution such as Red Hat, but your infrastructure has multiple versions. Using Red Hat System Roles Powered by…
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