ansible: include role in a role?

Question

Is it possible to reuse a role in a role? I do not mean via defining a dependency in the meta/main.yml file of a role but by including the role in the tasks/mai

Answer 1

You can't, but you can do something kind of similar.

For a layout of:

roles/
    ...
    common/tasks/main.yml
    nginx/tasks/main.yml
    ...

In nginx/tasks/main.yml, you can call your common task:

- name: Call the 'common' role to do some general setup
  include: ../../common/tasks/main.yml

Note that because you're not using the typical import structure, you might run into some "weirdness" like role default variables not being accessible unless you included the role in the standard fashion earlier.