Building Ansible Collections

6 minute read Published: Author: Derek Laventure

Initially our pure ansible infrastructure project consisted primarily of Ansible playbooks, using includes and imports to segment out what was essentially one long sequential process. We built up a set of plays that would go from nothing through all of the support infrastructure and provisioning a Droplet, up to the point of being ready to install application-level software, namely Aegir and its dependencies.

At this point, we were able to pick up and dust off some roles that we had built over …