Chapter 15. Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles Powered by Ansible

Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles provides a configuration interface for Red Hat Enterprise Linux subsystems, which makes system configuration easier through the inclusion of Ansible Roles. This interface enables managing system configurations across multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as adopting new major releases. The interface currently consists of the following roles:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles have been available since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 as a Technology Preview. With this update, the selinux, kdump, network, and timesync roles are fully supported. The postfix role continues to be available as a Technology Preview.

Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles packages have been distributed through the Extras channel. For details regarding Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles, see https://access.redhat.com/articles/3050101.

Selected roles of the rhel-system-roles package have received multiple bug fixes and significant enhancements to improve interface consistency, usability, and conformance to Ansible best practices. Note that for the timesync, kdump, and selinux roles, the changes are not backward compatible and it is necessary to update playbooks that use them. For more information, see https://access.redhat.com/articles/3561071. (BZ#1479381)