Demo of parameterized roles!

examples/playbooks/roles/foo/tasks/main.yml

@@ -7,3 +7,8 @@
   template: src=foo.j2 dest=/tmp/roles_test2.txt
   notify:
     - blippy
+
+- name: demo that parameterized roles work
+  shell: echo just FYI, param1={{ param1 }}, param2 ={{ param2 }}
+
+

examples/playbooks/roletest.yml

@@ -26,13 +26,21 @@
 
   - hosts: all
     roles:
-      - foo
+
+    # a role can be listed flat like this: 
+    #
+    #   - common
+    #   - webservers
+
+    # but you can also pass variables to them, so they can be parameterized.  You can call
+    # a role more than once with different parameters too.  It might look like this:
+
+      - { role: foo, param1: 1000, param2: 2000 }
+      - { role: foo, param1: 8000, param2: 9000 }
 
     # add as many roles as you like, roles takes a list of roles names
     # these paths can be qualified, but if bare, it will look from them in
     # roles/$rolename relative to the playbook
-    #
-    # - bar
 
     # explicit tasks and handlers can be used, but are not required.
     # they will run after the roles if present.