If you are not familiar with roles, check out our article on Getting Started with Roles.

There are a few different ways to create the roles files and directories.

• Use the ansible-galaxy init command to create the roles files and directories
• Use the ansible-galaxy install command to create the roles files and directories
• Use the git clone command to create the roles files and directories (that is what will be described in this article)
• Manually create the roles files and directories

Let's say you want to download the nginx web server roles directory. Assuming you are in your roles directory, such as /etc/ansible/roles, the git clone command can be used to download the nginx web server roles repository.

git clone https://github.com/bennojoy/nginx

This should clone the nginx repository to /etc/ansbile/roles.

~]$ ls -l /etc/ansible/roles/nginx
total 8
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root   21 Oct 19 11:51 defaults
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root   22 Oct 19 11:51 files
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root   21 Oct 19 11:51 handlers
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root   21 Oct 19 11:51 meta
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 4491 Oct 19 11:51 README.md
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root   21 Oct 19 11:51 tasks
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root   79 Oct 19 11:51 templates
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root   21 Oct 19 11:51 vars