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Exercise 03: Roles and variables

Roles, variables and iterators

1) Create a role for the windows update tasks from exercise 2 and change the playbook to use this role (remove the tasks: list and replace it with roles:)

2) Create a new role called IIS. This role will install IIS features with the win_feature module.

hint: win_feature module

3) Create a defaults/main.yaml file and add a variable called IISFeatures containing the following features:

  • Web-Server
  • Web-Common-Http
  • Web-App-Dev
  • Web-Net-Ext45
  • Web-Asp-Net45

hint: yaml lists are on the following format: 

list:
    - item 1
    - item 2

4) Use with_items: to make win_feature install the list of IIS features.

5) Add the IIS role to the playbook and run.