The first thing we need to do is to create the roles/common/tasks and roles/common/templates folders. In the first one, we will add the following main.yaml file. The full code is available on GitHub:

---
- name: Ensure EPEL is enabled 
  yum: 
    name: epel-release 
    state: present 
  become: True 
- name: Ensure libselinux-python is present 
  yum: 
    name: libselinux-python 
    state: present 
  become: True 
- name: Ensure libsemanage-python is present 
  yum: 
    name: libsemanage-python 
    state: present 
  become: True 
...

As you can see, this is very similar to our common_tasks.yaml playbooks. In fact, there are only two differences:

• The hosts, remote_user, and tasks lines (lines 2, 3, and 4) have been deleted.
• The indentation of the rest of the file has been fixed accordingly.

In this role, we used the template task to create...