An Ansible playbook template written in Jinja2 to quickly generate an Ansible playbook. The Ansible playbook can then be used within the Ansible Automation Platform or on the CLI.

ansible-galaxy is used to interact wtih the Jinja2 templates and generate the playbook and an inventory file.
A Makefile is used to further automate this process by simplifing the task, saving time, and avoiding errors.

• GNU make needs to be installed within the environment.
• Two variables need to be defined on the CLI: repo_name, name
  • repo_name is the location of the newly created project repo. name is the name of the project.

All playbook repos will have a play_ prefix. Please use underscores for name separation.

Generate a new play repo for an Apache install:

$ make repo_path=/root/Repos1 name=apache_install run

• This will create a new play repo at /root/Repos1 with the name play_apache_install.

Remove same play repo, Apache install, in case of an error, etc.

$ make repo_path=/root/Repos1 name=apache_install clean

• This will remove the created repository in its entirety. Be diligent.

$ make --help
$ ansible-galaxy init --help